A review by djoshuva
How Emotions Are Made: The Secret Life of the Brain by Lisa Feldman Barrett

5.0

"We don’t recognize emotions or identify emotions: we construct our own emotional experiences, and our perceptions of others’ emotions, on the spot, as needed, through a complex interplay of systems. Human beings are not at the mercy of mythical emotional circuits buried deep within animalistic parts of our highly evolved brain: we are architects of our own experience."