Highly informative, readable, and wide-ranging.” - Kirkus Reviews, starred review “Barrett (psychology, Northeastern University) presents a new neuroscientific explanation of why people are more swayed by feelings than by facts. Barrett’s figurative selfie of the brain is brilliant.” - Booklist, starred review “A well-argued, entertaining disputation of the prevailing view that emotion and reason are at odds. each chapter is chockablock with startling insights. Her enthusiasm for her topic brightens every amazing fact and theory about where our emotions come from. Lisa Feldman Barrett does-and what she has to say about our perceptions and emotions is pretty mind-blowing.” - Elle “Prepare to have your brain twisted around as psychology professor Barrett takes it on a tour of itself. With a high level of knowledge and articulate style, Barrett delivers a prime example of modern prose in digestible chunks.” - Seattle Book Review, five stars “Most of us make our way through the world without thinking a lot about what we bring to our encounters with it. the book is down-to-earth and a delight to read. a thought-provoking journey into emotion science.” - Wall Street Journal “I have never seen a book so devoted to understanding the nature of emotions.

A lucid report from the cutting edge of emotion science, How Emotions Are 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. Instead, Barrett shows, we construct each instance of emotion through a unique interplay of brain, body, and culture.

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. A thought-provoking journey into emotion science.”-The Wall Street Journal “A singular book, remarkable for the freshness of its ideas and the boldness and clarity with which they are presented.”-Scientific American “A brilliant and original book on the science of emotion, by the deepest thinker about this topic since Darwin.”-Daniel Gilbert, best-selling author of Stumbling on Happiness 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.

Preeminent psychologist Lisa Barrett lays out how the brain constructs emotions in a way that could revolutionize psychology, health care, the legal system, and our understanding of the human mind.

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