2 Posts found for Author: Lisa Feldman Barrett

Emotions do not shine forth from the face nor from the maelstrom of your body’s inner core. They don’t issue from a specific part of the brain. No scientific innovation will miraculously reveal a biological fingerprint of any emotion. That’s because our emotions aren’t built-in, waiting to be revealed. They are made. By us. We don’t recognize emotions or identify emotions: we construct our own … [ Read more ]

Author: Lisa Feldman Barrett | Source: The Marginalian (Brain Pickings) | Subject: Psychology | Behavior

An emotion is your brain’s creation of what your bodily sensations mean, in relation to what is going on around you in the world… In every waking moment, your brain uses past experience, organized as concepts, to guide your actions and give your sensations meaning. When the concepts involved are emotion concepts, your brain constructs instances of emotion.

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Emotions are not reactions to the world. … [ Read more ]

Author: Lisa Feldman Barrett | Source: The Marginalian (Brain Pickings) | Subject: Psychology | Behavior