Emotions seem like automatic reactions to situations and experiences we go through, and we cannot control them. Scientists have often supported this assumption, claiming that emotions are linked to physical connections in the human brain. However, as science investigates this topic, it finds itself in the midst of a revolution as significant as the discovery of relativity in physics and natural selection in biology. Psychologist and leading neuroscientist Lisa Feldman Barrett explains the latest scientific evidence to reveal that our common ideas about emotions are outdated, and we are paying the price for this misunderstanding. Emotions are constructed by systems that interact in the brain, supported by life experience. They are not pre-organized and structured in our brains and bodies. Rather, they are psychological experiences that each of us creates based on our unique personal history, personality makeup, and the environment in which we were raised.