How emotions are made : the secret life of the brain
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How emotions are made : the secret life of the brain
Macmillan, 2017
- : [hardback]
- : pbk
Available at 3 libraries
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First published in the U.S.A.: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2017
Includes bibliographical referernces (p. [323]-368) and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
'A brilliant and original book on the science of emotion, by the deepest thinker about this topic since Darwin'
Daniel Gilbert, author of the bestseller Stumbling on Happiness
When you feel anxious, angry, happy, or surprised, what's really going on inside you? Most scientists would agree that emotions come from specific parts of the brain, and that we feel them whenever they're triggered by the world around us. The thrill of seeing an old friend, the sadness of a tear-jerker movie, the fear of losing someone you love - each of these sensations arises automatically and uncontrollably within us, finding expression on our faces and in our behaviour, and carrying us away with the experience.
This understanding of emotion has been around since Aristotle. But what if it's wrong? In How Your Emotions Are Made, pioneering psychologist Lisa Feldman Barrett draws on the latest scientific evidence to reveal that our ideas about emotion are dramatically, even dangerously, out of date - and that we have been paying the price. Emotions don't exist objectively in nature, Barrett explains, and they aren't pre-programmed in our brains and bodies; rather, they are psychological experiences that each of us constructs based on our unique 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, or 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 wellbeing and the health of society itself.
Table of Contents
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
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