
The Handbook of Emotions: Fourth Edition — Why emotion is not the opposite of reason
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world.
Author: Lisa Feldman Barrett, Michael Lewis, and Jeannette M. Haviland-Jones
This episode explores The Handbook of Emotions (Fourth Edition) by Lisa Feldman Barrett, Michael Lewis, and Jeannette M. Haviland-Jones as a systems-level analysis of how emotion as a distributed regulatory and valuation system influences behavior, belief, and institutional outcomes.
By focusing on incentive architecture rather than personalities or events, the episode shows why these systems persist — and how they connect to larger…
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