How Emotions Are Made Summary of Key Points
In ‘How Emotions Are Made: The Secret Life of the Brain’, psychologist and neuroscientist Lisa Feldman Barrett challenges the classical theory of emotions and proposes a new theory called the Theory of Constructed Emotion. This theory suggests that emotions are not universally pre-programmed in our brains and bodies, but rather they are psychological experiences that each of us constructs based on our unique personal history, physiology and environment.