Lisa Feldman Barrett.
How Emotions are Made: the secret life of the brain.
Mariner Books. 2017
The science of emotion is in the midst of a revolution on par with
the discovery of relativity in physics and natural selection in biology.
Leading the charge is psychologist and neuroscientist Lisa Feldman Barrett,
whose research overturns the long-standing belief that emotions are
automatic, universal, and hardwired in different brain regions.
Instead, Barrett shows, we construct each instance of emotion through
a unique interplay of brain, body, and culture.
A lucid report from the cutting edge of emotion science,
How Emotions Am Made reveals the profound real-world consequences
of this breakthrough for everything from neuroscience and medicine
to the legal system and even national security,
laying bare the immense implications of our latest and most intimate scientific revolution.