Based on decades of her and others’ research, Lisa Feldman Barrett's "How Emotions Are Made: The Secret Life of the Brain" is a thorough, thoughtful skewering of the classical view, something she seeks to supplant with a “constructive view,” which contends that emotions are a sort of memory-based reasoning. “Emotions are not your reactions to your world. They are how you make sense of what’s going on inside your body in relation to the world.”
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