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How to Master Your Emotional Life—Lisa Feldman Barrett

The Weekend University

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Lisa Drexler: My theory of emotions is consistent with the broader view of how psychology theorizes and understands mental life. She says it suggests that your brain doesn't react to things in the world, but uses past experience to guess what's going to happen next. Theories have been pushed back against since psychology became a science in the mid-to-late 18th century by people like William James, she says.

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