How Your Emotions Construct Your Reality

Do you consider an emotion to be a cultural construct  or as a given hardwired aspect of your physiology? Do you see emotions as providing a picture of objective reality?

Here's a really interesting podcast from Invisibilia on emotions to give you some food for thought on the nature of emotions. Check out Lisa Feldman Barrett's book  to dive deeper into

"We offer you a truly mind-blowing alternative explanation for how an emotion gets made. And we do it through a bizarre lawsuit, in which a child dies in a car accident, and the child's parents get sued by the man driving the other car."