Barrett emphasizes that over a 2,000-year period, Western culture’s interpretation of emotion has remained relatively unchanged. The book begins with an introduction that provides a brief history of the science of emotion. This guide refers to the Kindle edition of the book. Barrett posits that our understanding of emotion can have far-reaching moral and legal consequences, and as such she thinks the theory of constructed emotion deserves consideration by scientists, lawmakers, parents, teachers, and laypeople, who she hopes will accept and implement it for society’s benefit. Her argument, which she calls the “theory of constructed emotion,” refutes the classical view of emotion, which contends that certain brain regions support specific emotional reactions and are triggered automatically by certain events and shared universally throughout all cultures. Based on her decades of research in brain function and emotion, Barrett argues that emotions aren’t universally felt or perceived but are instead constructed by the brain’s predictive thinking processes and based on previous experiences, external stimuli, bodily functions, and taught concepts. How Emotions Are Made: The Secret Life of the Brain is a 2017 book by Lisa Feldman Barrett, an American neuroscientist and professor.
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