Emotions Make Sense

Why You Feel What You Feel

von Daniel May

268 Seiten, Taschenbuch

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Why do we feel emotions at all?Why can fear take over before we have time to think? Why does anger sometimes push us towards confrontation, while sadness can make us withdraw? Why do jealousy, shame and guilt depend so heavily on other people? And is love really just a collection of chemicals in the brain?Emotions Make Sense explores the psychology behind the feelings that shape everyday life.Across fifteen accessible chapters, Daniel May examines what modern psychology and neuroscience can-and cannot-tell us about emotion. Rather than reducing feelings to simple brain regions, chemicals or evolutionary stories, the book explores how the brain, body, memory, learning, culture and social world work together to create emotional experience.Discover why: - fear is more complicated than an alarm system- anger is not the same thing as aggression- sadness and depression are not interchangeable- happiness is not a single psychological state- disgust extends far beyond rotten food- shame and guilt affect behaviour differently- jealousy and envy are not quite the same emotion- love cannot be reduced to one hormone or chemical- facial expressions do not reveal emotion as simply as we often assume- culture influences how emotions are understood and expressed- changing how you feel involves more than simply "thinking positively"Along the way, Emotions Make Sense challenges some of the most familiar myths about emotional life-including the idea that the amygdala is simply the brain's "fear centre", oxytocin is the "love hormone", or every emotion has a universal biological fingerprint.Human emotions can be uncomfortable, contradictory and occasionally overwhelming. But they are not random.When you understand where they come from, emotions begin to make sense.

• Reihe: Independently published
• ISBN: 9798174256712
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 14.09.2026
• Größe: 229 x 152 mm
• Verlag: Independently published