Next was "How Emotions are Made" by Lisa Barrett. This is best thought of two books - the first, up to chapter 8, is a revelatory look at the category error we've made around understanding emotions, revealing through a wide variety of experiments and research how emotions are constructed in real time as an act of categorization - they don't "exist" anywhere in the body. The less said about the rest the better

Full review: https://bookwyrm.social/user/bwaber/review/7934770/s/an-uneven-mostly-scientific-investigation#anchor-7934770 (4/5) #neuroscience #psychology