Description
| Product ID: | 9781509837526 |
| Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
| Country of Manufacture: | GB |
| Title: | How Emotions Are Made |
| Subtitle: | The Secret Life of the Brain |
| Authors: | Author: Lisa Feldman Barrett |
| Page Count: | 448 |
| Subjects: | Psychology: emotions, Psychology: emotions, Cognition and cognitive psychology, Popular science, Popular psychology, Perception, Popular science, Popular psychology |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating Emotions aren’t hardwired into you – you create them. A world-leading neuroscientist argues that understanding the origin and nature of emotions has huge implications for our future. <p><b>'<i>How Emotions Are Made</i> did what all great books do. It took a subject I thought I understood and turned my understanding upside down' – Malcolm Gladwell, author of <i>The Tipping Point</i></b><br><br>When you feel anxious, angry, happy, or surprised, what's really going on inside of you?<br><br>Uncover fascinating insights into the human mind with <i>How Emotions Are Made </i>by Lisa Feldman Barrett, a pioneer in neuroscience and psychology. This profound book will dismantle and reconstruct your understanding of your own emotions.<br><br>The world perceives our emotions as automatic and reactive, a response to the world around us. But <i>How Emotions Are Made</i> poses a compelling new perspective, suggesting emotions aren't universally pre-installed, rather they are unique psychological experiences constructed through our personal history, physiology, and environment.<br><br>This new view of emotions has serious implications:<br><br>- when judges issue lesser sentences for crimes of passion<br><br>- when police officers fire at threatening suspects<br><br>- when doctors choose between one diagnosis and another<br><br>They're all, in some way, relying on the ancient assumption that emotions are hardwired into our brains and bodies. Revising that conception of emotion isn't just good science, Barrett shows; it's vital to our well-being and the health of society itself.</p> |
| Imprint Name: | Pan Books |
| Publisher Name: | Pan Macmillan |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2018-02-08 |