How Emotions are Made : The Secret Life of the Brain

Fascinating . . . a thought-provoking journey into emotion science' The Wall Street Journal When you feel anxious, angry, happy, or surprised, what's really going on inside of you? Many scientists believe that emotions come from a specific part of the brain, triggered by the world around...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Lisa Feldman Barrett
Format: Printed Book
Published: Pan Books 2018
Subjects:
Emotions. Emotions > Sociological aspects. Brain.
Table of Contents:
  • The two-thousand-year-old assumption
  • The search for emotion's "fingerprints"
  • Emotions are constructed
  • The myth of universal emotions
  • The origin of feeling
  • Concepts, goals, and words
  • How the brain makes emotions
  • Emotions as social reality
  • A new view of human nature
  • Mastering your emotions
  • Emotion and illness
  • Emotion and the law
  • Is a growling dog angry?
  • From brain to mind : the new frontier
  • Appendix A. Brain basics
  • Appendix B. Supplement for chapter 2
  • Appendix C. Supplement for chapter 3
  • Appendix D. Evidence for the concept cascade.

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