"Most of us make our way through the world without thinking a lot about what we bring to our encounters with it. A highly informative, readable, and wide-ranging discussion." has important legal as well as moral implications and leads into the thorny questions surrounding free will.
we are responsible for our individual actions, of course, but we also bear responsibility for working to eliminate racial prejudice, gender stereotyping, and the like from our society. "A well-argued, entertaining disputation of the prevailing view that emotion and reason are at odds. For readers interested in psychology and neuroscience as well as those involved in education and policy." VERDICT: The theories of emotion and the human brain set forth here are revolutionary and have important implications. Still, it is a lot to take in if one has not been exposed to these ideas before. Tracing her own journey from the classical view of emotions, Barrett progressively builds her case, writing in a conversational tone and using down-to-earth metaphors, relegating the heaviest neuroscience to an appendix to keep the book accessible. These networks run nonstop simulations, making predictions and correcting them based on the environment rather than reacting to it. Furthermore, emotions are neither universal nor located in specific brain regions they vary by culture and result from dynamic neuronal networks. She offers an unintuitive theory that goes against not only the popular understanding but also that of traditional research: emotions don’t arise rather, we construct them on the fly. " presents a new neuroscientific explanation of why people are more swayed by feelings than by facts. " book, chock-full of startling, science-backed findings, is an entertaining and engaging read." ties together the many facets of emotional concerns and makes them accessible to the average reader. The depth with which Barrett describes is truly remarkable. Her enthusiasm for her topic brightens every amazing fact and theory about where our emotions come from.” “Prepare to have your brain twisted around as psychology professor Barrett takes it on a tour of itself. book is a thought-provoking journey into emotion science." Barrett writes clearly, with compelling examples and stories, and helps bring us all up to speed on most of the major developments in the field of emotion studies. If you want to read emotions better, read this book." "Barrett's is a singular book, remarkable for the freshness of its ideas and the boldness and clarity with which they are presented." Daniel Gilbert, best-selling author of Stumbling on Happiness "A brilliant and original book on the science of emotion, by the deepest thinker about this topic since Darwin." Malcolm Gladwell, bestselling author of David and Goliath and Outliers It took a subject I thought I understood and turned my understanding upside down." " How Emotions are Made did what all great books do.
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