How emotions are made : the secret life of the brain / Lisa Feldman Barrett.
How emotions are made : the secret life of the brain / Lisa Feldman Barrett.
How emotions are made : the secret life of the brain / Lisa Feldman Barrett.
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Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2017.
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G 2017/2721
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English
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xv, 425 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
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text
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unmediated
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volume
Contents
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 -- Masterin...
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Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2017.
Date Published
2017.
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"A new theory of how the brain constructs emotions that could revolutionize psychology, health care, law enforcement, and our understanding of the human mind. Emotions feel automatic, like uncontrollable reactions to things we think and experience. Scientists have long supported this assumption by claiming that emotions are hardwired in the body or...
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How emotions are made : the secret life of the brain / Lisa Feldman Barrett.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Online version: Barrett, Lisa Feldman, author. How emotions are made Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2017 9780544129962 (DLC) 2017004323
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G 2017/2721
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74VKVaQO6Oll
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VKVaQO6Oll
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9780544133310
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152.4
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991024104317402626
