Guest's bookOn the shelf
How Emotions Are Made: The Secret Life of the Brain
by Lisa Feldman Barrett
1 episode · last mentioned 17 Apr 2025
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Who brought it up
- Guest's book
Steven Bartlett in the episode with Lisa Feldman Barrett
About the book
A neuroscience book challenging the classical view that emotions are hardwired and universal. It presents the theory of constructed emotion, arguing that our brain builds emotional experiences from a combination of bodily sensations, past experience, and cultural concepts.
