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How Emotions Are Made
Emotions are not reactions to the world. You are not a passive receiver of sensory input but an active constructor of your emotions. From sensory input and past experience, your brain constructs meaning and prescribes action. If you didn’t have concepts that represent your past experience, all your sensory inputs would just be noise. You wouldn’t k
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Emotions are not reactions to the world. You are not a passive receiver of sensory input but an active constructor of your emotions.
Lisa Feldman Barrett • How Emotions Are Made
In short, we find that your emotions are not built-in but made from more basic parts. They are not universal but vary from culture to culture. They are not triggered; you create them. They emerge as a combination of the physical properties of your body, a flexible brain that wires itself to whatever environment it develops in, and your culture and
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An emotion is your brain’s creation of what your bodily sensations mean, in relation to what is going on around you in the world.
Lisa Feldman Barrett • How Emotions Are Made
your emotional experiences feel like they are the truth of the world around you, when in reality the culture we live in shapes your emotions...and your emotions serve as a lens for interpreting the world around you.
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Human beings are not at the mercy of mythical emotion circuits buried deep within animalistic parts of our highly evolved brain: we are architects of our own experience.