But what if its 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draws on the latest scientific evidence to reveal that our ideas about emotion are dramatically, even dangerously, out of date - and that we have been paying the price. This understanding of emotion has been around since Aristotle. 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. When you feel anxious, angry, happy, or surprised, whats really going on inside you? Most scientists would agree that emotions come from specific parts of the brain, and that we feel them whenever theyre triggered by the world around us. A brilliant and original book on the science of emotion, by the deepest thinker about this topic since DarwinÄaniel Gilbert, author of the bestseller Stumbling on Happiness
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