. >> lisa feldman barrett is here tonight in celebration of her book "how emotions are made" a is distinguished professor of psychology in northeastern university she received a national of institutes of health directors pride in your award for her ground breaking research with the motion in the brain and to be elected member of the royal society of canada. in a review library journal says to present a new era scientific explanation that there were swayed by feelings and fax and also has an intuitive theory that does not only against a popular understanding of traditional research emotions do not arrive rather reconstruct them on the flight furthermore they're not universal or located in specific bear the -- brain regions the results from girl that works "scientific american" calls the of book remarkable in the wall street journal calls a fascinating. and another star reviewed touse day the selfie of the brain is brilliant please help me to welcome lisa feldman barrett. [applause] >> it is very special for me to be here to talk about the home bookstore we have been coming here and then we have

help me welcome lisa feldman barrett. [applause] >> thank you very much. thank you so much. it's -- thank you for the lovely introduction. it's very special for me to be here to talk to you about the book this evening because this is actually our home book store. we live in newton and have been coming to news tonville books since it was in newtonville. and then friends and family here as well, and i'd like to welcome the rest of you as well. what i'm going to do is read a couple of selections from the book, and then we'll open it up to questions. >>> so i'm going to start with a passage i wrote about a birthday party that i threw for my daughter when she was 12 years old. we threw the birthday party with the theme of gross food. made pizza that was doctored to look as itself was green and moldy. so it had fuzzy cheese. i made vomit jello. if you want the recipe, let me know. and it actually dish used peach jello and then put in bits and pieces of chopped up -- little chopped up pieces of vegetable. served apple juice in medicine urine sample cups. the best part of the party