201. Theory of Constructed Emotion
Channel: THUNK
Date: 14/12/2020

We experience our emotions as instantaneous reactions to the world around us, but what if fear, happiness, & anxiety aren’t the result of dedicated, hardwired circuits in our brains? The Theory of Constructed Emotion suggests an alternate explanation.

- Links for the Curious - 

“You aren't at the mercy of your emotions -- your brain creates them", by Lisa Feldman Barett - https://www.ted.com/talks/lisa_feldman_barrett_you_aren_t_at_the_mercy_of_your_emotions_your_brain_creates_them/transcript?language=en

Solving the Emotion Paradox: Categorization and the Experience of Emotion (Barrett, 2006) - https://www.affective-science.org/pubs/2006/Barrett2006paradox.pdf

Of Mice and Men: Natural Kinds of Emotions in the Mammalian Brain? A Response to Panksepp and Izard - Lisa Feldman Barrett, Kristen A. Lindquist, Eliza Bliss-Moreau, Seth Duncan, Maria Gendron, Jennifer Mize, Lauren Brennan, 2007 - https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1111/j.1745-6916.2007.00046.x

How Emotions are Made, by Lisa Feldman Barrett - https://bookshop.org/books/how-emotions-are-made-the-secret-life-of-the-brain/9781328915436 

Book Summary - How Emotions Are Made: The Theory of Constructed Emotion - https://fortelabs.co/blog/how-emotions-are-made/

Updated: A re-replication of a psychological classic provides a cautionary tale about overhyped science - https://digest.bps.org.uk/2018/08/15/a-re-replication-of-a-psychological-classic-provides-a-cautionary-tale-about-overhyped-science/

Fear and panic in humans with bilateral amygdala damage (Feinstein et al, 2013) - https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3739474/

A lesion model of envy and Schadenfreude: legal, deservingness and moral dimensions as revealed by neurodegeneration (Santamaría-García, 2017) - https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5841144/ 

https://www.affective-science.org/pubs/2011/Lindquist_et_al_BBS.pdf 

Identifying Emotions on the Basis of Neural Activation - https://www.cmu.edu/dietrich/sds/docs/loewenstein/EmotionNeuralAct.pdf

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/0022103169900067 

https://www.nature.com/articles/npp2009109 

THUNK 130. Bayesian Inference & Predictive Processing - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pLcIT3kjsW0 

THUNK 190. Scientific Realism - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lTouTijlfhg