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How Emotions Are Made: The Secret Life of the Brain
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How Emotions Are Made: The Theory of Constructed Emotion
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- The brain uses concepts to make sense of data. Emotions like “fear,” “sadness,” and “disappointment” are concepts just like any other. Just as your brain interprets a pattern of light as a “window,” it might interpret a pattern of bodily sensations as “fear” or “disappointment.”
from How Emotions Are Made: The Theory of Constructed Emotion by Tiago Forte
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