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Understanding Emotion: The Theory of Constructed Emotion

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Drawn from the work of Lisa Feldman Barrett and her team, this theory explores the possibility that emotions are not switches that can flipped on or off, neither can they be located exclusively in brain centres or read from our faces but that emotion is a by product of the brain running an energy budget for the body using a combination of prediction, interoception and meaning making and it is built on the fly depending on our situation and surroundings and culture. Interesting stuff!

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