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Concepts Shape Emotion

We feel emotions through learned concepts—your culture and language heavily influence how you experience and categorize feelings.

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Read, Think, Write.

Lisa Feldman Barrett challenges everything we thought we knew about emotions, revealing that they are not universal reactions but brain-made concepts shaped by experience, culture, and prediction.

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