Contents


Title Page

Contents

Copyright

Dedication

Introduction: The Two-Thousand-Year-Old Assumption

The Search for Emotion’s “Fingerprints”

Emotions Are Constructed

The Myth of Universal Emotions

The Origin of Feeling

Concepts, Goals, and Words

How the Brain Makes Emotions

Emotions as Social Reality

A New View of Human Nature

Mastering Your Emotions

Emotion and Illness

Emotion and the Law

Is a Growling Dog Angry?

From Brain to Mind: The New Frontier

Acknowledgments

Appendix A

Appendix B

Appendix C

Appendix D

Bibliography

Notes

Illustration Credits

Index

About the Author

Connect with HMH

Footnotes