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We Don’t Understand How Emotions Work. A Neuroscientist Explains Why we often get it wrong

By Lisa Feldman-Barrett — 2021

Emotions are your brain’s best guesses of what your bodily sensations mean, guided by your past experience. Your brain constructs these guesses in the blink of an eye – so rapidly, in fact, that emotions feel like uncontrollable reactions that happen to you, when emotions are actually made by you.

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Emotional Intelligence (EQ)