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Eastern. Mrs. Helen barrett is here tonight in celebration of her book. She is the University Distinguished professor of psychology at northeastern university. With appointments at harvard medical Student School Massachusetts General Hospital in psychiatry and radiology. She received a National Institute of Health Directors pioneer work for her research on emotion in the brain. Shes elected member of the Royal Society of canada. Heres a sampling of the praise for her book. In the review, the Library Journal says, she presents in new neuroscientific explanation of why people are more swayed by feelings the facts. She offers unintuitive theory that goes against not only the popular understanding, but also that of traditional research. Emotions dont arise, weather, we construct them on the fly. Furthermore, emotions are neither universal or located in specific brain regions. They vary by culture and result from dynamic neural networks. Scientific american calls the book remarkable for its

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