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Constructed Emotion

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Lisa Feldman Barrett

Lisa Feldman Barrett

Constructed Emotion

Stathine–Coexon reinterpretation of Lisa Feldman Barrett’s work. Original conceptual formulation by Anand Damani.

Lisa Feldman Barrett's theory of constructed emotion emphasizes the role of the brain's predictive processes, bodily regulation and conceptual learning in emotional experience.

“Emotion emerges through the interaction of body, brain and learned meaning; the Coexon hypothesis asks whether sentient coherence influences how these meanings are integrated into experience.”

This formulation retains the importance of biological mechanisms while proposing a further ontological question.