Lisa Feldman Barrett

How Emotions Are Made (eBook, ePUB)

The Secret Life of the Brain

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Produktbeschreibung

How Emotions Are Made did what all great books do. It took a subject I thought I understood and turned my understanding upside down' - Malcolm Gladwell, author of The Tipping Point

When you feel anxious, angry, happy, or surprised, what's really going on inside of you?

Uncover fascinating insights into the human mind with How Emotions Are Made by Lisa Feldman Barrett, a pioneer in neuroscience and psychology. This profound book will dismantle and reconstruct your understanding of your own emotions.

The world perceives our emotions as automatic and reactive, a response to the world around us. But How Emotions Are Made poses 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.

This new view of emotions has serious implications:

- when judges issue lesser sentences for crimes of passion

- when police officers fire at threatening suspects

- when doctors choose between one diagnosis and another

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Pan Macmillan
• Seitenzahl: 320
• Altersempfehlung: ab 18 Jahre
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. März 2017
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781509837519
• Artikelnr.: 47844192

Autorenporträt

LISA FELDMAN BARRETT, PhD, is a University Distinguished Professor of Psychology at Northeastern University. She received a National Institutes of Health Director's Pioneer Award for her groundbreaking research on emotion in the brain, and is an elected member of the Royal Society of Canada. Barrett is the author of How Emotions are Made and Seven and a Half Lessons About the Brain.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
i: Introduction: The Two Thousand Year Old Assumption Chapter
1: The Search For Emotion's ''Fingerprints'' Chapter
2: Emotions Are Constructed Chapter
3: The Myth of Universal Emotions Chapter
4: The Origin of Feeling Chapter
5: Concepts, Goals, and Words Chapter
6: How the Brain Makes Emotions Chapter
7: Emotions As A Social Reality Chapter
8: A New View of Human Nature Chapter
9: Mastering Your Emotions Chapter
10: Emotions and Illness Chapter
11: Emotion and the Law Chapter
12: Is a Growling Dog Angry? Chapter
13: From Brain to Mind: The New Frontier Acknowledgements
ii: Acknowledgments Section
iii: Appendix A: Brain Basics Section
iv: Appendix B: Supplement for Chapter 2 Section
v: Appendix C: Supplement for Chapter 3 Section
vi: Appendix D: Evidence for the Concept Cascade Section
vii: Bibliography Section
viii: Notes Section
ix: Illustration Credits Index
x: Index