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How Emotions Are Made

By Lisa Feldman Barrett

This episode reveals how your brain actively constructs emotions, offering a profound opportunity to understand and reshape your inner world.

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“This episode reveals how your brain actively constructs emotions, offering a profound opportunity to understand and reshape your inner world.”

— Lisa Feldman Barrett, How Emotions Are Made

What it is about

Emotion science, neuroscience, self-regulation, body-mind connection

Who it is for

If you've ever felt like your emotions are a mystery, or found yourself reacting in ways you don't understand, this will illuminate the hidden architecture of your inner life, and this will help you see what to do next.

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Lisa Feldman Barrett is a neuroscientist whose research challenges the long-held belief that emotions are universal, hardwired reactions, revealing instead how the brain actively constructs our feelings.

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Lisa Feldman Barrett

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