Be the architect of your emotions

• Autores: Shannon Fischer
• Localización: New scientist, ISSN 0262-4079, Nº. 3116, 2017, págs. 40-43
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • In an interview, university professor Lisa Feldman Barrett talks about emotions. Barrett said when the sensations from one's body are very intense, one's brain categorizes them as an emotion. It does this using concepts. To understand how this works, think about money. It is a human-created concept: those pieces of paper have no objective value, but people impose a function on them that they would not have otherwise