Barrett’s theory in How Emotions Are Made is one response to that question. Scientists have a hard time agreeing on the fundamental question of how to define emotion. For all its novelty, however, Barrett’s theory of constructed emotion entered a very crowded and contentious field: Joseph LeDoux, a neuroscientist whose own theory of emotion agrees in part with Barrett’s, has noted that there are as many theories of emotion as there are emotion theorists.
How Emotions Are Made was published in 2017 and widely covered in the popular press for Lisa Feldman Barrett’s novel theory of emotion. In addition, Barrett is a director of the Interdisciplinary Affective Science Laboratory, which studies emotions and produced some of the research on which the book is based. She also holds appointments at Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts General Hospital, where she is Chief Science Officer for the Center for Law, Brain & Behavior. As she sums it up in her TED talk, “Emotions don’t happen to you they’re made by you.”īarrett is a University Distinguished Professor of Psychology at Northeastern University. Barrett calls this the theory of constructed emotion. Lisa Feldman Barrett introduces a new theory of emotion in How Emotions Are Made, based on years of research, which posits that emotions are neither hardwired into our brains nor universally felt and recognized rather, emotions help the brain to predict what will happen next based on what’s happened in the past-and to plan accordingly. In How Emotions Are Made, neuroscientist and psychologist Lisa Feldman Barrett challenges many of society’s long-standing beliefs about emotions, calling into question everything from what emotions are, to where they come from and how to control them.
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