Moreover, his treatment of consciousness does not begin to capture the full texture of emotional experience ... the rewards for the brain in this fascinating book.

In “How Emotions Are Made,” Lisa Feldman Barrett argues that our brains construct emotions, and debunks the myth of predefined emotional categories. Instead, the brain uses information it ...

His books include The Emotional Brain (Simon and Schuster, 1996), Synaptic Self (Viking, 2002), Anxious: Using the Brain to Understand and Treat Fear and Anxiety (Viking, 2015), The Deep History ...

Psychologist and author Daniel Goleman first brought the term “emotional intelligence” to a wide audience with his 1995 book of the same name, and Goleman first applied the concept to business ...