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'Highly accessible, content-rich and eminently readable . . . Fascinating and informative . . . popular science at its best.' - The Observer<BR><BR>Have you ever wondered why you have a brain? Let renowned neuroscientist Lisa Feldman Barrett, bestselling author of How Emotions Are Made, demystify that big grey blob between your ears . . .<BR><BR>In seven short chapters (plus a brief history of how brains evolved), this slim, entertaining, and accessible book reveals mind-expanding lessons from the front lines of neuroscience research. You'll learn where brains came from, how they're structured (and why it matters), and how yours works in tandem with other brains to create everything you experience. Along the way, you'll also learn to dismiss popular myths such as the idea of a 'lizard brain' and the alleged battle between thoughts and emotions, or even between nature and nurture, to determine your behaviour.<BR><BR>Sure to intrigue casual readers and scientific veterans alike, Seven and a Half Lessons About the Brain is full of surprises, humour, and important implications for human nature - a gift of a book about our most complex and crucial organ.<BR><BR>'Subtly radical . . . It presents a revelatory model of consciousness that will be completely new to most readers' - The Guardian

'How Emotions Are Made did what all great books do. It took a subject I thought I understood and turned my understanding upside down' - Malcolm Gladwell, author of Talking to Strangers<BR><BR>When you feel anxious, angry, happy, or surprised, what's really going on inside of you?<BR><BR>Perhaps you thought of your emotions as automatic and reactive, a response to the world around you. The thrill of seeing an old friend, the fear of losing someone you love - each of these sensations seems to arise automatically and uncontrollably.<BR><BR>But in How Emotions are Made pioneering neuroscientist Lisa Feldman Barrett shatters everything you thought you knew with a compelling new argument: emotions aren't universally pre-programmed into our brains and bodies but, rather, are unique psychological experiences constructed through our personal history, physiology and environment.<BR><BR>Relationships, health, parenting, even national security - emotions have serious implications for them all. How Emotions are Made offers a radical new framework that finally explains what you're feeling - and why it matters so much.

Die Freude, Freund:innen wiederzusehen, die Angst, einen geliebten Menschen zu verlieren, die Wut, wenn uns jemand ungerecht behandelt - unsere Empfindungen scheinen automatisch in uns aufzutauchen, sich in unserem Gesicht und in unserem Verhalten auszudrücken und unabhängig von unserem Willen einfach zu 'geschehen'. Dieses Verständnis von Emotionen gibt es bereits seit Platon. Was aber, wenn es falsch ist? Die renommierte Psychologin und Neurowissenschaftlerin Lisa Feldman Barrett zeigt auf der Grundlage neuester wissenschaftlicher Erkenntnisse, dass unsere Vorstellungen von Emotionen auf dramatische Weise veraltet sind - und dass wir den Preis dafür zahlen. Feldman Barrett weiß: Emotionen sind nicht universell in unseren Gehirnen und Körpern vorprogrammiert; vielmehr sind sie psychologische Erfahrungen, die jeder von uns auf der Grundlage seiner einzigartigen persönlichen Geschichte, Physiologie und Umwelt konstruiert. Diese neue Sichtweise hat zentrale Folgen: Denn wir haben größeren Einfluss auf die Entstehung, Art und Intensität unserer Gefühle, als wir denken. 

From the author of How Emotions Are Made, a myth-busting primer on the brain in the tradition of Seven Brief Lessons on Physics and Astrophysics for People in a Hurry.Have you ever wondered why you have a brain? Let renowned neuroscientist Lisa Feldman Barrett demystify that big gray blob between your ears and explain how the brain works. In seven short essays (plus a bite-sized story about how brains evolved), this slim, entertaining, and accessible collection reveals mind-expanding lessons about the human mind from the front lines of neuroscience research. You'll learn where brains came from, how they're structured (and why it matters), and how yours works in tandem with other brains to create everything you experience. Along the way, you'll also learn to dismiss popular myths such as the idea of a "lizard brain" and the alleged battle between thoughts and emotions, or even between nature and nurture, to determine your behavior.Sure to intrigue casual readers and scientific veterans alike, Seven and a Half Lessons About the Brain is full of surprises, humor, and important implications for human nature-a gift of a book that you will want to savor again and again.What other brain myths will be busted, and what new discoveries await inside?- Body Budgeting: Discover your brain’s most important job—and why it isn’t thinking. Learn how your brain manages a complex budget for your body to keep you alive and well.- A Predictive Brain: Find out why your brain doesn’t react to the world but actively predicts it, constructing your experience of reality from inside a dark, silent box.- One Brain, Not Three: Dismiss popular but incorrect myths like the 'lizard brain' and the supposed battle between thoughts and emotions once and for all.- Socially Wired: Understand how your brain works in tandem with other brains, constantly affecting and being affected by the people around you in surprising ways.