lisa felledman barrett is here in celebration of her book "how emotions are made: the secret life of the brain." she is university distinguished prefer of psychology at northeastern university with a appointments at harvard medical school and massachusetts general hospital in psychiatry and radiology. she received a national institutes of health directors pioneer award for heir groundbreaking research on emotion in the brain. she is an elected member of the royal society of canada. here's a sampling of the praise. in review library journal says barrett presents a new neuroscene tick explanation of why people are more swayed by feeling than facts. she offers intuitive theory that goes against in the popular understanding and that of traditional research. emotions don't arise, rather, we construct them on the fly. furthermore, emotions are neither universal nor located in specific brain regions. they very by culture and real from dynamic neuronal networks. scientific american says talk about freshness of ideas. and "wall street journal" says it's fascinating. and one says their selfie