How to make emotions

How emotions are made, a book does what great books do, it addresses a topic we think we understand, but it turns this understanding upside down. Malcolm Gladwell How emotions are made Author: Lisa Feldman Barrett Translator: Iyad Ghanem Emotions seem like automatic reactions to the situations and experiences we go through, and we cannot control them. Often scientists supported this assumption by claiming that emotions are linked by physical connections to the human brain. But science, in exploring this topic, finds itself in the midst of a revolution equal in importance to the discovery of relativity in physics and natural selection in biology. The psychologist and leading neuroscientist Lisa Feldman Barrett explains to us the latest scientific evidence to reveal that our common ideas about emotions are outdated, and we are paying the price for this misunderstanding.. and that emotions are built through systems that interact in the brain, supported by life experience, and that they are not pre-organized and pre-structured in our brains and bodies, but are psychological experiences formed by each of us according to our unique personal history, personality composition, and the environment in which we grew up.