Book · 2017 · History
How Emotions Are Made
The Secret Life of the Brain
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She is the author of a book that revolutionized our understanding of emotion in the brain called How Emotions Are Made.
Lex Fridman · Lex Fridman Podcast · Oct 2020 Listen at 0:06 What they say about it
- Authored by Lisa Feldman Barrett“she is the author of a book”3
- Highly recommends the book“I highly recommend this book”2
The best things said about it
I highly recommend this book, How Emotions Are Made.
If you want to read more about emotions and how the context and cultural things impact our emotions, I'm a huge fan of Lisa Feldman Barrett.
Andrew Huberman Huberman Lab · Mar 2021 The more emotion words you know, the more emotionally literate you are and the more balanced your psyche is.
Russell Kennedy Modern Wisdom · Jun 2025 The book, How Emotions Are Made, was written for her and for myself because it encapsulated the knowledge I wanted her, and others, to understand about emotions.
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How it comes up
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Why people recommend it
How Emotions Are Made by Lisa Feldman Barrett is a revolutionary neuroscience book exploring how the brain constructs emotions rather than merely reacting to them. Steven Bartlett highly recommended the book on The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett, praising its accessibility alongside the author's other works. Andrew Huberman also enthusiastically endorsed the book across multiple episodes of Huberman Lab, telling listeners that he was a huge fan of Barrett's work on how context and culture impact human emotions. Lex Fridman welcomed the author on the Lex Fridman Podcast, noting that the publication fundamentally transformed modern understanding of emotion in the brain. Additionally, Dr. Russell Kennedy mentioned the book on Modern Wisdom to support the psychological principle that greater emotional literacy leads to a more balanced psyche. In a separate episode of Huberman Lab, Barrett herself shared that she wrote the book to encapsulate foundational knowledge about emotions for her daughter and the wider public.
Every mention
Andrew Huberman The first one is entitled 'How Emotions Are Made,' and the second book, which includes information about em… 3
Recommended
“The first one is entitled 'How Emotions Are Made,' and the second book, which includes information about emotions but extends beyond that, is entitled 'Seven and a Half Lessons About the Brain.'”
Recommended
“Many of you have asked for book recommendations. This is an opportunity to raise mention of another book. Again, I don't have any financial affiliation or anything, but if you want to read more about emotions and how the context and cultural things impact our emotions, I'm a huge fan of Lisa Feldman Barrett... Her first book is How Emotions”
Recommended
“One is "How Emotions Are Made," which was her first book.”
Steven Bartlett I highly recommend this book. how emotions are made. I'm going to link it below. The secret life of the bra… 2
Recommended
“I highly recommend this book. how emotions are made.”
Recommended
“I highly recommend this book. how emotions are made. I'm going to link it below. The secret life of the brain and also for something a little bit shorter but equally accessible.”
Lex Fridman she is the author of a book that revolutionized our understanding of emotion in the brain called how emotio… 2
Discussed
“So um maybe one way I could ask before we talk about the details you also have the author of another book is we talked about how emotions are made so it's interesting to talk about the process of writing”
Recommended
“she is the author of a book that revolutionized our understanding of emotion in the brain called how emotions are made and she's coming out with a new book called seven and a half lessons about the brain that you can and should pre-order now”
Russell Kennedy Then Lisa Felman Barrett wrote this this great book called How Emotions Are Made. And in that book, she say… 2
Discussed
“Then Lisa Felman Barrett wrote this this great book called How Emotions Are Made. And in that book, she says, "The more emotion words you know, the more emotionally literate you are and the more balanced your your your psyche is."”
Discussed
“because you know Lisa Feldman Barrett wrote this book called how emotions are made and she talks about you know just how men and women fundamentally don't understand emotion”
Dr. Lisa Feldman Barrett The book, "How Emotions Are Made," was written for her and for myself because it encapsulated the knowledge… 1
Discussed
“The book, "How Emotions Are Made," was written for her and for myself because it encapsulated the knowledge I wanted her, and others, to understand about emotions.”
Also mentioned in the same episodes
Other mentions (11: passing, ad reads, own books)
Plugged
“and her two fabulous books on emotions in the brain the first one entitled how emotions are made and the second book which includes information about emotions but extends beyond that entitled seven and a half lessons about the brain”
Plugged
“but when my daughter this is all in how emotions are made these examples”
Plugged
“how emotions are made this book that I referred to I wrote that book for her”
Passing
“...and big thanks to mentalfloss.co and how emotions are made”
Plugged
“actually i have a whole chapter on how emotions are used in the law in my first book how emotions are made”
Plugged
“i have a whole chapter about this in um in how emotions are made my um my first book”
Plugged
“you also have the author of another book is we talked about how emotions are made”
Plugged
“that's a standard -- um popular science book so it's 300 something pages and then you know it has like a thousand endnotes and then each of the endnotes is attached to a web note which is also long”
Passing
“she is the author of a book that revolutionized our understanding of emotion in the brain called how emotions are made and she's coming out with a new book called seven and a half lessons about the brain”
Plugged
“some of which i actually discussed in how emotions were made but not obviously to the extent that he did um in his book which it's a fascinating book”
Plugged
“and they also appear somewhat in how emotions are made my first book they are not in the you know seven and a half lessons because that book is is really not pitched at that level of explanation”