How Emotions Are Made: The Theory of Constructed Emotion - Forte Labs - Deepstash
How Emotions Are Made: The Theory of Constructed Emotion - Forte Labs

How Emotions Are Made: The Theory of Constructed Emotion - Forte Labs

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We Create our Own Emotions

We Create our Own Emotions

Emotions are concepts

Consider your brain for a moment. It’s sitting there in your skull, receiving all sorts of data from your eyes, ears, nose, skin, and mouth. This data is informative, but also ambiguous. It has to be interpreted.

For example, it might think:

What is that rectangular source of light with changing patterns of color? A window!

  1. Emotions are not hard-wired
  2. Emotions are predictions
  3. Although emotions are generated from within, they don’t stop there. We use emotions to construct our social reality.
  4. There are no universal emotions across nations.
  5. Emotions are not reactions to the world

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CURATOR'S NOTE

Our brain uses concepts of emotions to create social reality, ain't that amazing?

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