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# Emotions: Reflecting Human Affective States

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### Resources:

[How Emotions are Made, Lisa Feldman Barrett](https://lisafeldmanbarrett.com/books/how-emotions-are-made/)\
Permission to Feel, Marc Brackett, PhD\
Divergent Mind, Jenara Nerenberg\
Magic, Error and Terror, Klaus Truemper\
The Anxious Generation, Jonathan Haidt\


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