How to create emotions - the secret life of the brain

Emotions seem to be automatic reactions to the situations and experiences we go through that we cannot control, and often scientists support this assumption, claiming that emotions are linked by physical connections to the human brain. But science, while researching this topic, finds itself in the midst of a revolution comparable in importance to the discovery of relativity in physics and natural selection in biology. 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Lisa Feldman Barrett explains to us the latest scientific evidence to reveal that our common ideas about emotions are outdated, and we are paying the price for our misunderstanding. This is because emotions are built through systems that interact in the brain, supported by life experience, and they are not pre-organized and pre-structured in our brains and bodies. Rather, they are psychological experiences formed by each of us according to our unique personal history, character composition, and the environment in which we grew up. Author: Lisa Feldman Barrett Number of pages: 368 Publisher: Dar Al Tanweer