How Emotions Are Made: The Secret Life of the Brain by Lisa Feldman Barrett
Published 2017 · 123,200 words · about 10 hours at an average pace
How hard is How Emotions Are Made: The Secret Life of the Brain to read?
How Emotions Are Made: The Secret Life of the Brain scores 59 out of 100 for difficulty on ReadingRate, making it quite demanding. The score is a weighted composite of nine measures: four of how hard the prose is to parse, five of how hard the meaning is to extract.
- Vocabulary: 58 out of 100
- Affective-science vocabulary, glossed.
- Sentence structure: 55 out of 100
- Clear sentences carrying technical material.
- Abstraction: 70 out of 100
- A theory of what emotions are, argued abstractly.
- Information density: 72 out of 100
- Very dense with experimental evidence.
How How Emotions Are Made: The Secret Life of the Brain is regarded
How Emotions Are Made: The Secret Life of the Brain holds a literary regard score of 62 out of 100, weighing its place in the canon, its critical reception, its influence on other writers, and the standing of its author. Regard is measured separately from difficulty: a demanding book is not necessarily an admired one.