Your brain interprets internal body signals (like heart rate or fatigue) to help construct emotional experiences.
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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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