How Emotions Are Made von Lisa Feldman Barrett
The Secret Life of the Brain

Kategorie: Bücher
Seiten / Format: 448 S
Erscheinungsjahr: 2018
Verlag: Macmillan Publishers InternationalPan
Sprache: Englisch
ISBN: 9781509837526
Auflage / Bände: Main Market Ed.

How Emotions Are Madedid what all great books do. It took a subject I thought I understood and turned my understanding upside down. Malcolm GladwellEmotions aren't hardwired into you - you create them. A world-leading neuroscientist argues that understanding the origin and nature of emotions has huge implications for our future.

'How Emotions Are Madedid what all great books do. It took a subject I thought I understood and turned my understanding upside down'- Malcolm Gladwell, author ofThe Tipping Point<br><br>When you feel anxious, angry, happy, or surprised, what's really going on inside of you?<br><br>Uncover fascinating insights into the human mind withHow Emotions Are Madeby Lisa Feldman Barrett, a pioneer in neuroscience and psychology. This profound book will dismantle and reconstruct your understanding of your own emotions.<br><br>The world perceives our emotions as automatic and reactive, a response to the world around us. ButHow Emotions Are Madeposes a compelling new perspective, suggesting emotions aren't universally pre-installed, rather they are unique psychological experiences constructed through our personal history, physiology, and environment.<br><br>This new view of emotions has serious implications:<br><br>- when judges issue lesser sentences for crimes of passion<br><br>- when police officers fire at threatening suspects<br><br>- when doctors choose between one diagnosis and another<br><br>They're all, in some way, relying on the ancient assumption that emotions are hardwired into our brains and bodies. Revising that conception of emotion isn't just good science, Barrett shows; it's vital to our well-being and the health of society itself.

4GBLisa Feldman Barrett, Ph.D., is a University Distinguished Professor of Psychology at Northeastern University, with appointments at Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts General Hospital in Psychiatry and Radiology. She received a NIH Director's Pioneer Award for her research on emotion in the brain. She lives in Boston.

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