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How Emotions Are Made

by Lisa Feldman Barrett · 2017

1 episode · last mentioned 17 Apr 2025

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  • Guest's book 17 Apr 2025

    Steven Bartlett in the episode with Lisa Feldman Barrett

    At about 02:04:25 (audio)

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.

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