How Emotions Are Made: The Secret Life of the Brain 9780544133310, 9780544129962
When you feel anxious, angry, happy, or surprised, what's really going on inside you? Most scientists would agree t
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Table of contents :
Title Page
Contents
Copyright
Dedication
Introduction: The Two-Thousand-Year-Old Assumption
The Search for Emotion’s “Fingerprints”
Emotions Are Constructed
The Myth of Universal Emotions
The Origin of Feeling
Concepts, Goals, and Words
How the Brain Makes Emotions
Emotions as Social Reality
A New View of Human Nature
Mastering Your Emotions
Emotion and Illness
Emotion and the Law
Is a Growling Dog Angry?
From Brain to Mind: The New Frontier
Acknowledgments
Appendix A
Appendix B
Appendix C
Appendix D
Bibliography
Notes
Illustration Credits
Index
About the Author
Connect with HMH
Footnotes
Title Page
Contents
Copyright
Dedication
Introduction: The Two-Thousand-Year-Old Assumption
The Search for Emotion’s “Fingerprints”
Emotions Are Constructed
The Myth of Universal Emotions
The Origin of Feeling
Concepts, Goals, and Words
How the Brain Makes Emotions
Emotions as Social Reality
A New View of Human Nature
Mastering Your Emotions
Emotion and Illness
Emotion and the Law
Is a Growling Dog Angry?
From Brain to Mind: The New Frontier
Acknowledgments
Appendix A
Appendix B
Appendix C
Appendix D
Bibliography
Notes
Illustration Credits
Index
About the Author
Connect with HMH
Footnotes
- Author / Uploaded
- Lisa Feldman Barret
