Lisa Feldman Barrett. Wie Gefühle entstehen: Eine neue Sicht auf unsere Emotionen. Hamburg, , 2023.

The joy of seeing friend: inside again, the fear of losing a loved one - our sensations seem to appear automatically in us, express themselves in our face and in our behavior, and simply "happen" regardless of our will. This understanding of emotions has been around since Platon. But what if it's wrong? Renowned psychologist and neuroscientist Lisa Feldman Barrett demonstrates, based on the latest scientific findings, that our notions of emotions are out of print in a dramatic way - and that we pay the price for it. Feldman Barrett claims: emotions are not universally pre-programmed in our brains and bodies; rather, they are psychological experiences that each of us constructs based on his unique personal history, physiology and environment. This new view has central consequences: because we have greater influence on the creation, type and intensity of our feelings than we think.