Reddit reviews How Emotions Are Made: The Secret Life of the Brain

I'm in the same boat as you and the truth is these emo are often not really based on external circumstances. We just are in the habit of looking for external stuff to attract them to. Many negative emotions come from the brains failure to accurately predict an outcome. This explains more & might help you a great deal. https://www.amazon.com/How-Emotions-Are-Made-Secret-ebook/dp/B00QPHURT6

A neuronormative could have remembered to include link to the book.

I guess some would feel that the book is a tad too academic, but I find it pleasing to read (and to listen too, the narrator does terrific job in the audible version).

The concepts of constructing emotions described in the book have helped me to understand some aspects of my inner workings. Specially the role of the subconsciousness that feels to have major leaks to my conspicuousness. And also the influence of how I think I capture in much more detail my internal bodily feelings and changes in the environment.

Also the concept of Affective niche (what things and details get your attention) has been useful as it seems to differ occasionally from normies.

I listened to both of the emotion podcasts on there since yesterday. It blew my mind. I've been thinking about it a lot, even related to hunger as you mention as I'm pretty hungry today. I need to know more, so I might have to pick up the book they mentioned: https://www.amazon.com/How-Emotions-Are-Made-Secret-ebook/dp/B00QPHURT6

A series is kicking off at the brains blog on Tom Cochrane's new book.

The presentation is a little clunky, but in Part-1 of the series we learn that he takes emotions to be "valent representations of situated concerns". These valent representations give emotions a functional role that is sensitive to "the wider context, and can accordingly serve [the individual's] interests more in a contextually sensitive way". He distinguishes emotions from feelings, taking "bodily feelings to represent the capacity of the body to deal with the situation".

It's a fairly abstract outline, but hopefully as the series continues I get a better sense of how his work relates to, say, Barrett's and Ledoux's recent work.

Do you have a source? There's a popular book on emotions that came out last year referencing a lot of research showing that emotion categories aren't inherent, and facial expressions don't always correspond across cultures. In fact, here's a quote from classics scholar Mary Beard:

>This is not to say that Romans never curled up the edges of their mouths in a formation that would look to us much like a smile; of course they did. But such curling did not mean very much in the range of significant social and cultural gestures in Rome. Conversely, other gestures, which would mean little to us, were much more heavily freighted with significance.