How Emotions Are Made
The Secret Life of the Brain
«How Emotions Are Made did what all great books do. It took a subject I thought I understood and turned my understanding upside down.»
Malcolm Gladwell
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 Les mer
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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
Detaljer
- Forlag
- Pan Books
- Innbinding
- Paperback
- Språk
- Engelsk
- Sider
- 448
- ISBN
- 9781509837526
- Utgivelsesår
- 2018
- Format
- 20 x 13 cm
Om forfatteren
Lisa Feldman Barrett, Ph.D., is a University Distinguished Professor of Psychology at Northeastern University, with appointments at Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts General Hospital in Psychiatry and Radiology. She is the author of How Emotions Are Made and received a NIH Director's Pioneer Award for her research on emotion in the brain. She lives in Boston.
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«How Emotions Are Made did what all great books do. It took a subject I thought I understood and turned my understanding upside down.»
Malcolm Gladwell
«The definitive field guide to feelings and the neuroscience behind them.»
Angela Duckworth, bestselling author of <i>Grit</i>
«A brilliant and original book on the science of emotion, by the deepest thinker about this topic since Darwin»
Daniel Gilbert, author of the bestseller <i>Stumbling on Happiness</i>
«Meticulous, well-researched, and deeply thought out . . . For anyone who has struggled to reconcile brain and heart, this book will be a treasure; it explains the science without short-changing the humanism of its topic.»
Andrew Solomon, bestselling author of <i>Far from the Tree</i> and <i>The Noonday Demon</i>
«Radical and fascinating ... How Emotions are Made defends a bold new vision of the most central aspects of human nature.»
Paul Bloom, author of <i>Against Empathy</i> and <i>How Pleasure Works</i>
«Every lawyer and judge doing serious criminal trials should read this book.»
Baroness Helena Kennedy QC House of Lords, U.K.
«Barrett's figurative selfie of the brain is brilliant.»
Booklist
«A provocative, insightful, and engaging analysis ... You won't think about emotions in the same way after you read this important book.»
Daniel L. Schacter, author of <i>The Seven Sins of Memory</i>
«The implications of Lisa Barrett’s work (which ‘only’ challenges two-thousand-year-old assumptions about the brain) are nothing short of stunning. Even more stunning is how extraordinarily well she succeeds.»
Nancy Gertner, Senior Lecturer on Law, Harvard Law School, and former U.S. federal judge for the Uni
«This is a provocative, accessible, important book.»
Robert Sapolsky, author of <i>Why Zebras Don't Get Ulcers</i> and <i>A Primate's Memoir</i>
«Lisa Feldman Barrett illuminates the fascinating new science of our emotions.»
Peggy Orenstein, author of <i>Girls & Sex</i>
«Lisa Barrett masterfully integrates discoveries from affective science, neuroscience, social psychology, and philosophy to make sense of the many instances of emotion that you experience and witness each day.»
Barbara Fredrickson, author of <i>Positivity</i> and<i> Love 2.0</i>
«Fascinating . . . a thought-provoking journey into emotion science»
The Wall Street Journal
«Lisa Barrett writes with great clarity about how your emotions are not merely about what you're born with, but also about how your brain pieces your feelings together, and how you can contribute to the process. She tells a compelling story.»
Joseph Le Doux, author of <i>Anxious</i> and <i>Synaptic Self</i>
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