How Emotions are Made

How Emotions are Made is an instruction manual-and field guide-for how human experience is crafted moment-to-moment. From the neuronal to sociological level, the author Lisa Feldman Barrett carefully walks readers through what makes humans tick, how we make decisions (via emotional cues), the role of emotions in general cognition, and the implications of emotion research showing that emotions are not universally perceived the same way across cultures. All of this carries important caveats for how we can conceptualize our “inner landscapes”, the consequences of these conceptualizations, and how we might view the development of “artificial intelligences” in the wild.