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📘 '''''Atlas of the Heart''''' is a 2021 nonfiction book by Brené Brown that maps 87 emotions and experiences and offers a research-based framework for meaningful connection.<ref name="PRH2021" /> It gathers those ideas into 13 “places we go” groupings and argues that expanding our emotional vocabulary strengthens relationships, drawing on surveys of 7,000 people in which most could name only three emotions as they occurred.<ref name="TIME20211123">{{cite news |title=Brené Brown Thinks You Should Talk About These 87 Emotions |url=https://time.com/6122081/brene-brown-atlas-of-the-heart/ |work=Time |date=23 November 2021 |access-date=28 October 2025 |
📘 '''''{{Tooltip|Atlas of the Heart}}''''' is a 2021 nonfiction book by {{Tooltip|Brené Brown}} that maps 87 emotions and experiences and offers a research-based framework for meaningful connection.<ref name="PRH2021">{{cite web |title=Atlas of the Heart |url=https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/557596/atlas-of-the-heart-by-brene-brown-phd-msw/ |website=Penguin Random House |publisher=Penguin Random House |date=30 November 2021 |access-date=28 October 2025}}</ref> It gathers those ideas into 13 “places we go” groupings and argues that expanding our emotional vocabulary strengthens relationships, drawing on surveys of 7,000 people in which most could name only three emotions as they occurred.<ref name="TIME20211123">{{cite news |last=Luscombe |first=Belinda |title=Brené Brown Thinks You Should Talk About These 87 Emotions |url=https://time.com/6122081/brene-brown-atlas-of-the-heart/ |work=Time |date=23 November 2021 |access-date=28 October 2025}}</ref> The first hardcover edition was published by {{Tooltip|Random House}} on 30 November 2021 and runs 336 pages.<ref name="PRH2021" /><ref name="OCLC1266361020">{{cite web |title=Atlas of the heart : mapping meaningful connection and the language of human experience (print ed., first edition) |url=https://search.worldcat.org/nl/title/Atlas-of-the-heart-%3A-mapping-meaningful-connection-and-the-language-of-human-experience/oclc/1266361020 |website=WorldCat |publisher=OCLC |access-date=28 October 2025}}</ref> ''Publishers Weekly'' highlighted the launch as “the #1 book in the country” in its bestsellers column for the week of 13 December 2021.<ref name="PWBestsellers20211210">{{cite news |last=Juris |first=Carolyn |title=This Week’s Bestsellers: December 13, 2021 |url=https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/industry-news/bookselling/article/88115-this-week-s-bestsellers-december-10-2021.html |work=Publishers Weekly |date=10 December 2021 |access-date=28 October 2025}}</ref> The book was also adapted into a five-episode {{Tooltip|HBO Max}} docuseries that premiered in March 2022.<ref name="BrownHBO202203">{{cite web |title=HBO Max Presents Atlas of the Heart |url=https://brenebrown.com/hbo-max-presents-brene-brown-atlas-of-the-heart/ |website=Brené Brown |publisher=Brené Brown |date=March 2022 |access-date=28 October 2025}}</ref><ref name="WBDPress20211007">{{cite web |title=HBO Max Orders Docuseries BRENÉ BROWN: ATLAS OF THE HEART From Dr. Brené Brown |url=https://press.wbd.com/us/media-release/hbo-max/hbo-max-orders-unscripted-series-atlas-heart-dr-brene-brown |website=Warner Bros. Discovery Pressroom |publisher=Warner Bros. Discovery |date=7 October 2021 |access-date=28 October 2025}}</ref> |
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== Chapter summary == |
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=== Chapter 1 – Places we go when things are uncertain or too much === |
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🌪️ A busy kitchen during a weekend dinner rush gives two names to overload: servers say they’re “in the weeds” when the pace is stressful but solvable with help, and “blown” when the only safe move is to step away and reset. That distinction maps this cluster—stress, overwhelm, anxiety, worry, avoidance, excitement, dread, fear, and vulnerability—so people can choose a fitting response instead of reacting on autopilot. Stress is the body’s high-alert problem-solving mode; overwhelm is the cognitive and emotional flood that suspends problem-solving until capacity returns. Anxiety grows in the gap of uncertainty, while worry is the mental loop that tries to control what hasn’t happened yet and often recruits avoidance for short-term relief. Fear concerns an immediate threat; dread mixes anticipation with apprehension and can masquerade as productivity through over-preparation. Excitement shares arousal with anxiety but directs attention toward opportunity rather than danger, which can redirect the body’s energy. Vulnerability runs through the set as exposure to risk and uncertainty—not weakness but the condition that makes help, support, and authentic action possible. Precise naming under pressure moves people from diffuse discomfort to specific choices—ask for help, pause, or re-enter with a calmer plan. Granularity strengthens connection because clear words make clear requests. |
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=== Chapter 2 – Places we go when we compare === |
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⚖️ A late-night scroll mixes a coworker’s promotion, a friend’s milestone, and a rival’s stumble—an instant laboratory for comparison with real social cues, time stamps, and like counters. This cluster includes admiration and reverence as elevating responses to excellence or sacredness; envy wanting what someone else has; jealousy defending what feels at risk; and resentment keeping score when perceived fairness breaks. It also names the twin spikes social feeds surface: {{Tooltip|schadenfreude}} (pleasure at another’s setback) and {{Tooltip|freudenfreude}} (joy at another’s success), with the latter strengthening ties when practiced deliberately. Comparison narrows attention to rank and scarcity, which can turn people into threats and mute gratitude for one’s own lane. Expectations about who we “should” be intensify the effect when identities, appearance, or status stay constantly visible and searchable. Language helps people catch the micro-shifts—envy versus jealousy, reverence versus admiration—so they can choose celebration, boundaries, or perspective instead of defaulting to self-critique. Naming the exact state breaks comparison’s spell and restores belonging. Practicing {{Tooltip|freudenfreude}} turns the same engine toward connection rather than distance. |
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=== Chapter 3 – Places we go when things don't go as planned === |
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🧭 A launch date slips, the school board posts a weather closure at dawn, or a connecting flight cancels at the gate—ordinary scenes where plans collide with reality and feelings stack up fast. Boredom (wanting to engage but feeling unable) differs from frustration (blocked goals), and disappointment (an unmet expectation) differs from discouragement (energy lost after a setback). Regret (a backward-looking signal tied to agency and choices) differs from resignation (giving up), and hidden or inflated expectations magnify all of them. Boredom can nudge exploration when agency is present; without it, irritability rises and attention scatters. Disappointment shrinks when expectations are explicit, negotiated, and reality-tested, while regret becomes instructive when people acknowledge choice points rather than spiral into shame. Resignation may feel like relief in the moment but quietly erodes efficacy; frustration eases when goals are broken into smaller steps and timelines flex to new constraints. With clear labels, teams and families can move from “everything went wrong” to “we’re in disappointment and frustration—let’s reset expectations and next actions.” Because appraisal filters events into emotions, revising expectations together restores agency. Naming these states links language to repair and turns detours into chances to reconnect and continue. |
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=== Chapter 4 – Places we go when it's beyond us === |
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🌌 '''4 – Places we go when it's beyond us.''' In 2003, psychologists Dacher Keltner (UC Berkeley) and Jonathan Haidt (then University of Virginia) described awe as arising from “perceived vastness” and a “need for accommodation”—moments that force our mental maps to stretch (published in Cognition & Emotion, 17(2):297–314). A decade later, Paul Piff and colleagues ran five studies (N=2,078) across UC Irvine, NYU, the University of Toronto, and UC Berkeley showing that brief awe inductions—including asking participants to stand among a grove of towering trees—consistently shrank the “small self” and increased helping, generosity, and prosocial values (Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 2015). Here, awe sits with wonder, confusion, curiosity, interest, and surprise as signposts for experiences that outsize ordinary understanding. Curiosity, as George Loewenstein’s 1994 information-gap theory explains, switches on when we notice a hole between what we know and what we want to know, pulling attention toward exploration. Paul Silvia’s 2005 experiments show that interest blooms when something feels both novel or complex and, crucially, within our capacity to make sense of. Surprise—the jolt of a prediction error—nudges us to update mental models, while tolerable confusion keeps us in the struggle long enough for insight to form. Wonder lingers after the jolt, an open-ended stance that invites meaning-making more than control. Together these states move attention beyond the self and toward the world, making humility and learning feel natural rather than forced. Naming the precise place—“awe,” “curiosity,” or “confusion”—helps people choose the next wise action (look closer, ask, pause) and keep connection alive when certainty isn’t available. |
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🌌 In 2003, psychologists {{Tooltip|Dacher Keltner}} and {{Tooltip|Jonathan Haidt}} described awe as arising from “perceived vastness” and a “need for accommodation”—moments that force our mental maps to stretch (''Cognition & Emotion'', 17(2):297–314).<ref name="KeltnerHaidt2003">{{cite journal |last1=Keltner |first1=Dacher |last2=Haidt |first2=Jonathan |date=2003 |title=Approaching awe, a moral, spiritual, and aesthetic emotion |journal=Cognition and Emotion |volume=17 |issue=2 |pages=297–314 |doi=10.1080/02699930302297 |url=https://greatergood.berkeley.edu/dacherkeltner/docs/keltner.haidt.awe.2003.pdf |access-date=6 November 2025}}</ref> In 2015, {{Tooltip|Paul Piff}} and colleagues ran five studies (N=2,078) showing that brief awe inductions—including standing among a grove of towering trees—consistently shrank the “small self” and increased helping (''Journal of Personality and Social Psychology'').<ref name="Piff2015">{{cite journal |last1=Piff |first1=Paul K. |last2=Dietze |first2=Pia |last3=Feinberg |first3=Matthew |last4=Stancato |first4=Daniel M. |last5=Keltner |first5=Dacher |date=2015 |title=Awe, the Small Self, and Prosocial Behavior |journal=Journal of Personality and Social Psychology |volume=108 |issue=6 |pages=883–899 |doi=10.1037/pspi0000018 |url=https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/25984788/ |access-date=6 November 2025}}</ref> Curiosity fits here too: {{Tooltip|George Loewenstein}}’s information-gap theory (1994) holds that curiosity flips on when we notice a gap between what we know and want to know (''Psychological Bulletin'').<ref name="Loewenstein1994">{{cite journal |last=Loewenstein |first=George |date=1994 |title=The Psychology of Curiosity: A Review and Reinterpretation |journal=Psychological Bulletin |volume=116 |issue=1 |pages=75–98 |doi=10.1037/0033-2909.116.1.75 |url=https://www.cmu.edu/dietrich/sds/docs/loewenstein/PsychofCuriosity.pdf |access-date=6 November 2025}}</ref> {{Tooltip|Paul Silvia}}’s experiments show interest blooms when novelty/complexity meets comprehensibility (''Emotion'', 2005).<ref name="Silvia2005">{{cite journal |last=Silvia |first=Paul J. |date=March 2005 |title=What is interesting? Exploring the appraisal structure of interest |journal=Emotion |volume=5 |issue=1 |pages=89–102 |doi=10.1037/1528-3542.5.1.89 |url=https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/15755222/ |access-date=6 November 2025}}</ref> |
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=== Chapter 5 – Places we go when things aren't what they seem === |
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🎭 In 1956, Leon Festinger, {{Tooltip|Henry Riecken}}, and Stanley Schachter published ''{{Tooltip|When Prophecy Fails}}'', their field study of a small Chicago group whose world-ending flood never arrived; many members resolved the clash by doubling down—an enduring example of {{Tooltip|cognitive dissonance}} and motivated reasoning. This set includes amusement, bittersweetness, nostalgia, {{Tooltip|cognitive dissonance}}, paradox, irony, and sarcasm. Amusement lets us toy with incongruity; bittersweetness pairs joy with loss. Nostalgia—once framed as homesickness—is a bittersweet emotion that can steady identity when handled gently. {{Tooltip|Cognitive dissonance}} tenses mind and body when behavior and belief collide, tempting self-justification to restore coherence. Paradox asks us to hold two truths at once; irony and sarcasm can bond or distance depending on use. Naming the exact experience slows the reflex to defend and keeps conversation open. |
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=== Chapter 6 – Places we go when we're hurting === |
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💔 At {{Tooltip|Columbia University}}’s {{Tooltip|Center for Prolonged Grief}}, researchers distinguish acute grief from integrated grief and a prolonged form that leaves people “stuck”; across large reviews, the intense acute phase typically gives way to integrated grief within about 6–12 months for most bereaved people. This cluster covers anguish, hopelessness, despair, sadness, and grief. Anguish is an almost unbearable collision of shock, incredulity, grief, and powerlessness. Hopelessness drains both pathways and agency; when it saturates the future, it becomes despair. Sadness is a natural, time-limited slowing; grief blends loss, longing, and feeling lost. Effective responses emphasize {{Tooltip|co-regulation}}, presence, boundaries, and timely professional help. Naming where we are guides what helps: safety for anguish, pathway-building for hopelessness, and oscillation between loss and restoration for grief. |
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=== Chapter 7 – Places we go with others === |
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🤝 A hospital waiting room at 2 a.m. tests language: one person sits and says, “I’m with you,” another stands at a distance and says, “At least…,” and the difference changes the room. This cluster includes compassion, pity, empathy, sympathy, boundaries, and {{Tooltip|comparative suffering}}. Compassion is a practice; empathy is the skill set that recognizes emotion, stays out of judgment, and communicates understanding. Sympathy observes from the balcony; pity adds a power gap. Boundaries keep care sustainable. {{Tooltip|Comparative suffering}} tries to rank pain, blocking connection. Specific language—naming what we feel and what we can offer—turns vague concern into steady presence. |
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=== Chapter 8 – Places we go when we fall short === |
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📉 A project post-mortem with missed milestones and redlined drafts sets the stage for shame, self-compassion, perfectionism, guilt, humiliation, and embarrassment. Shame speaks in global identity terms (“I am bad”); guilt targets behavior (“I did something bad”). Humiliation involves feeling wronged; embarrassment is a fleeting social exposure. Perfectionism masquerades as striving but is a shield against judgment. Self-compassion counters the spiral with mindfulness, common humanity, and kindness. Accurate labeling shifts rumination to responsibility—repair, reset, or rest. |
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=== Chapter 9 – Places we go when we search for connection === |
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🔗 A first-day orientation—clip-on badge, crowded room—surfaces belonging, fitting in, connection, disconnection, insecurity, invisibility, loneliness. Belonging means being accepted as yourself; fitting in is contorting to match the group. Connection shows as mutual care; disconnection can be as small as a phone glance. Loneliness is the gap between the connection we have and the connection we need. Saying “I’m feeling left out,” “I’m trying to fit in,” or “I need company” invites clear responses. Specific naming fuels reciprocal cues. |
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=== Chapter 10 – Places we go when the heart is open === |
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💖 '''10 – Places we go when the heart is open.''' At the University of Washington’s “Love Lab” in Seattle, psychologist John Gottman spent decades videotaping couples; in a 2011 public talk he described “sliding door moments”—small chances to turn toward or away that, over time, build or erode trust. His team monitored physiology during conflict and labeled “flooding” when arousal spikes make problem-solving impossible, a cue to pause and regulate before resuming. This terrain includes love, lovelessness, heartbreak, trust, self-trust, betrayal, defensiveness, flooding, and hurt. Love is a practice that needs boundaries and attention; lovelessness is the environment where control, contempt, or indifference choke connection. Trust grows in micro-moments of reliability, honesty, and generosity; betrayal often begins with repeated turn-aways long before a dramatic rupture. Self-trust is keeping our word to ourselves—aligning what we think, feel, and do—so we can extend trust without abandoning self-respect. Defensiveness escalates conflict by protecting ego at the cost of listening, while flooding signals the body’s limit and the need to step back rather than push through. Hurt is specific and nameable, which makes repair possible; heartbreak is the cost of loving at all, not proof that love failed. Naming “flooding” or “betrayal of our agreement” steers conflict toward repair. Repeated micro-bids and responses compound into trust, making vulnerability the path back to connection. |
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💖 At the {{Tooltip|University of Washington}} “{{Tooltip|Love Lab}},” {{Tooltip|John Gottman}} popularized “{{Tooltip|sliding door moments}}”—small chances to turn toward or away that build or erode trust—and labeled “flooding” when arousal spikes make problem-solving impossible, a cue to pause and regulate.<ref name="GottmanSliding">{{cite web |title=What Makes Love Last: Sliding Door Moments |url=https://www.gottman.com/blog/what-makes-love-last-sliding-door-moments/ |website=The Gottman Institute |publisher=The Gottman Institute |date=4 March 2024 |access-date=6 November 2025}}</ref><ref name="GottmanFlooding">{{cite web |title=Making Sure Emotional Flooding Doesn't Capsize Your Relationship |url=https://www.gottman.com/blog/making-sure-emotional-flooding-doesnt-capsize-your-relationship/ |website=The Gottman Institute |publisher=The Gottman Institute |date=4 March 2024 |access-date=6 November 2025}}</ref> This terrain includes love, lovelessness, heartbreak, trust, self-trust, betrayal, defensiveness, flooding, and hurt. Naming “flooding” or “betrayal of our agreement” steers conflict toward repair; repeated micro-bids compound into trust. |
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=== Chapter 11 – Places we go when life is good === |
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🌞 '''11 – Places we go when life is good.''' In 2003, psychologists Robert Emmons (UC Davis) and Michael McCullough (University of Miami) ran three randomized studies showing that listing “blessings” boosted positive affect, increased exercise, and, in a clinical sample, improved sleep quality—an early experimental case for gratitude practices. That evidence anchors this cluster: joy, happiness, calm, contentment, gratitude, foreboding joy, relief, and tranquility. Joy is a sudden, high-intensity sense of connection; happiness is steadier, lower-intensity, and often tied to circumstances and effort. Gratitude is both an emotion and a practice that amplifies and is amplified by joy, creating an upward spiral. Calm is trainable—rooted in breath, perspective-taking, and curiosity—and it steadies groups as well as individuals. Contentment follows completion and sufficiency, while tranquility is savoring “nothing to prove, nothing to do” moments; relief marks the subsiding of threat. Foreboding joy names the reflex to brace in our best moments by rehearsing disaster, a habit that dulls life to avoid being blindsided. Rituals—gratitude lists, calm-breathing questions, and deliberate savoring—help us inhabit good times fully. Attention shapes experience: name and widen rather than brace. Seen this way, calm is a teachable pattern, not a fixed trait. *First, whether calm is a practice or something more inherent, there are behaviors specific to cultivating and maintaining calm that include a lot of self-questioning.* |
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🌞 In randomized studies, listing “blessings” boosted positive affect, exercise, and (in a clinical sample) sleep quality—an early experimental case for gratitude practices.<ref name="Emmons2003">{{cite journal |last1=Emmons |first1=Robert A. |last2=McCullough |first2=Michael E. |date=February 2003 |title=Counting blessings versus burdens: An experimental investigation of gratitude and subjective well-being in daily life |journal=Journal of Personality and Social Psychology |volume=84 |issue=2 |pages=377–389 |doi=10.1037/0022-3514.84.2.377 |url=https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/12585811/ |access-date=6 November 2025}}</ref> This cluster covers joy, happiness, calm, contentment, gratitude, {{Tooltip|foreboding joy}}, relief, and tranquility. Calm is trainable; contentment follows sufficiency; relief marks the subsiding of threat. Rituals—gratitude lists, calm-breathing questions, savoring—help us inhabit good times fully. ''First, whether calm is a practice or something more inherent, there are behaviors specific to cultivating and maintaining calm that include a lot of self-questioning.'' |
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=== Chapter 12 – Places we go when we feel wronged === |
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🗯️ '''12 – Places we go when we feel wronged.''' In 2006, psychologist Nick Haslam (University of Melbourne) synthesized decades of findings to show two forms of dehumanization—animalistic and mechanistic—each loosening moral concern and licensing harm. That lens clarifies this set: anger, contempt, disgust, dehumanization, hate, and self-righteousness. Susan Fiske’s stereotype-content model (2002/2007) links low-warmth, low-competence judgments to emotions like contempt and disgust, the cocktail that often precedes exclusion or abuse. Paul Rozin’s 1990s research traces disgust from pathogen defense to moral disgust, which helps explain how political and cultural fights slip into “contamination” language. Anger here is clean energy for boundary-setting and change, while contempt corrodes connection and predicts relationship breakdown. Self-righteousness hardens identity by rewarding certainty over curiosity, making it easy to sort people into “us” and “them.” Dehumanization is the steepest slope: once a person or group is seen as less than human, harm and indifference feel justified. Catch the slide early—name anger before it curdles into contempt, and replace dehumanizing labels with specific grievances and limits. Focused language narrows aim to behavior and choices, restoring accountability without erasing justice claims. *Anger is a catalyst. It’s an emotion that we need to transform into something life-giving: courage, love, change, compassion, and justice.* |
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🗯️ {{Tooltip|Nick Haslam}} distinguishes animalistic and mechanistic {{Tooltip|dehumanization}}—each loosening moral concern and licensing harm (''Personality and Social Psychology Review'', 2006).<ref name="Haslam2006">{{cite journal |last=Haslam |first=Nick |date=2006 |title=Dehumanization: An Integrative Review |journal=Personality and Social Psychology Review |volume=10 |issue=3 |pages=252–264 |doi=10.1207/s15327957pspr1003_4 |url=https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/16859440/ |access-date=6 November 2025}}</ref> {{Tooltip|Susan Fiske}}’s {{Tooltip|stereotype-content model}} links low-warmth/low-competence judgments to contempt and disgust (''Journal of Personality and Social Psychology'', 2002).<ref name="Fiske2002">{{cite journal |last1=Fiske |first1=Susan T. |last2=Cuddy |first2=Amy J. C. |last3=Glick |first3=Peter |last4=Xu |first4=Jun |date=2002 |title=A Model of (Often Mixed) Stereotype Content: Competence and Warmth Respectively Follow From Perceived Status and Competition |journal=Journal of Personality and Social Psychology |volume=82 |issue=6 |pages=878–902 |doi=10.1037/0022-3514.82.6.878 |url=https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/12051578/ |access-date=6 November 2025}}</ref> {{Tooltip|Paul Rozin}}’s work traces disgust from pathogen defense to moral disgust (1999 review chapter).<ref name="Rozin1999">{{cite book |last1=Rozin |first1=Paul |last2=Haidt |first2=Jonathan |last3=McCauley |first3=Clark R. |date=1999 |title=Disgust: The Body and Soul Emotion |chapter= |publisher=Wiley |doi=10.1002/0470013494.ch21 |url=https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/0470013494.ch21 |access-date=6 November 2025}}</ref> Anger can be clean energy for boundary-setting; contempt corrodes connection; self-righteousness hardens identity. Catch the slide early—name anger before it curdles into contempt; replace dehumanizing labels with specific grievances and limits. |
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=== Chapter 13 – Places we go to self-assess === |
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📝 '''13 – Places we go to self-assess.''' In 2007, Jessica Tracy (University of British Columbia) and Richard Robins (UC Davis) published seven studies in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology distinguishing two facets of pride: authentic (tied to specific effort and achievement) and hubristic (tied to inflated self-regard). Earlier work by the same team showed a recognizable pride display across cultures—small smile, head tilted slightly back, chest expanded, and arms raised or hands on hips—appearing even in blind athletes, which points to an evolved signal. This chapter uses that science to separate pride, hubris, and humility so people can evaluate themselves without sliding into self-delusion or self-denigration. Pride, at its healthiest, celebrates earned effort and supports persistence; hubris craves dominance, defensiveness, and status even in the absence of accomplishment. Humility is not humiliation; it is grounded confidence plus openness to correction, the stance that keeps learning and collaboration possible. Signals of hubris—fragility under feedback, chronic comparison, contempt for limits—often mask insecurity and shame. Signals of humility—accurate self-appraisal, curiosity, and credit-sharing—build trust because they put shared goals ahead of ego. Simple language prompts (“what did I do well, where did I fall short, what did I learn?”) convert vague pride into accountable reflection. Clean differentiation honors earned pride while guarding against hubris and false modesty, and metacognition keeps growth ahead of performance theater and relationships intact. |
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📝 In seven studies, {{Tooltip|Jessica Tracy}} and {{Tooltip|Richard Robins}} distinguished two facets of pride: authentic (effort-based) and hubristic (inflated self-regard) (''Journal of Personality and Social Psychology'', 2007).<ref name="TracyRobins2007">{{cite journal |last1=Tracy |first1=Jessica L. |last2=Robins |first2=Richard W. |date=2007 |title=The Psychological Structure of Pride: A Tale of Two Facets |journal=Journal of Personality and Social Psychology |volume=92 |issue=3 |pages=506–525 |doi=10.1037/0022-3514.92.3.506 |url=https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/The-psychological-structure-of-pride%3A-a-tale-of-two-Tracy-Robins/363012877c8405b0d6347ee939912c27a4bebd71 |access-date=6 November 2025}}</ref> Pride at its healthiest celebrates earned effort; hubris craves dominance. Humility is grounded confidence plus openness to correction. Simple prompts (“what did I do well, where did I fall short, what did I learn?”) convert vague pride into accountable reflection. |
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| ⚫ | ''—Note: The above summary follows the {{Tooltip|Random House}} hardcover edition (2021; ISBN 978-0-399-59255-3).''<ref name="PRH2021" /> ''Chapter headings cross-checked with {{Tooltip|WorldCat}} (OCLC 1264709572).''<ref name="OCLC1264709572">{{cite web |title=Atlas of the heart : mapping meaningful connection and the language of human experience |url=https://search.worldcat.org/title/1264709572 |website=WorldCat |publisher=OCLC |access-date=28 October 2025}}</ref> |
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== Background & reception == |
== Background & reception == |
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🖋️ '''Author & writing'''. Brown is a research professor at the University of Houston, where she holds the Huffington Foundation Endowed Chair at the Graduate College of Social Work.<ref name="UHoustonFaculty">{{cite web |title=Brené Brown: Faculty Directory |url=https://www.uh.edu/socialwork/about/faculty-directory/b-brown/index.php |website=University of Houston |publisher=University of Houston |access-date=28 October 2025}}</ref> She also holds a visiting appointment in management at the University of Texas at |
🖋️ '''Author & writing'''. Brown is a research professor at the {{Tooltip|University of Houston}}, where she holds the {{Tooltip|Huffington Foundation Endowed Chair}} at the {{Tooltip|Graduate College of Social Work}}.<ref name="UHoustonFaculty">{{cite web |title=Brené Brown: Faculty Directory |url=https://www.uh.edu/socialwork/about/faculty-directory/b-brown/index.php |website=University of Houston |publisher=University of Houston |access-date=28 October 2025}}</ref> She also holds a visiting appointment in management at the {{Tooltip|University of Texas at Austin}}’s {{Tooltip|McCombs School of Business}}.<ref name="UHCVCite">{{cite web |title=Curriculum Vitae: Brené Brown, Ph.D., MSW |url=https://www.uh.edu/socialwork/about/faculty-directory/b-brown/cv_brenebrown3.23.2022.pdf |website=University of Houston |publisher=University of Houston |date=23 March 2022 |access-date=28 October 2025}}</ref> In the book’s framing, she positions the project as a language “map” to help readers build meaningful connection and practice careful stewardship of one another’s stories.<ref name="PRH2021" /> Surveys across five years found respondents could often identify only three emotions in the moment; the book answers by charting 87 distinctions and offering strategies for working with them.<ref name="TIME20211123" /><ref name="BBResources">{{cite web |title=Guides & Resources |url=https://brenebrown.com/resources/ |website=Brené Brown |publisher=Brené Brown |access-date=28 October 2025}}</ref> |
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📈 '''Commercial reception'''. The book debuted |
📈 '''Commercial reception'''. The book debuted strongly: ''Publishers Weekly'' called it “the #1 book in the country” for the week of 13 December 2021,<ref name="PWBestsellers20211210" /> and it led the ''{{Tooltip|Los Angeles Times}}'' hardcover nonfiction list on 12 December 2021 and again on 6 March 2022.<ref name="LATimes20211212">{{cite news |title=Bestsellers List Sunday, December 12 |url=https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/books/story/2021-12-08/bestsellers-list-sunday-december-12 |work=Los Angeles Times |date=8 December 2021 |access-date=28 October 2025}}</ref><ref name="LATimes20220306">{{cite news |title=Bestsellers List Sunday, March 6 |url=https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/books/story/2022-03-02/bestsellers-list-sunday-march-6 |work=Los Angeles Times |date=2 March 2022 |access-date=28 October 2025}}</ref> |
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👍 '''Praise'''. ''Library Journal'' praised the audio edition as “outstanding,” noting |
👍 '''Praise'''. ''{{Tooltip|Library Journal}}'' praised the audio edition as “outstanding,” noting clear explanations and added stories, and recommended multiple copies for libraries.<ref name="LJ20220901">{{cite web |last=Farrell |first=Beth |title=Atlas of the Heart: Mapping Meaningful Connection and the Language of Human Experience |url=https://www.libraryjournal.com/review/atlas-of-the-heart-mapping-meaningful-connection-and-the-language-of-human-experience-2151178 |website=Library Journal |publisher=Library Journal |date=1 September 2022 |access-date=28 October 2025}}</ref> ''{{Tooltip|Time}}'' commended Brown’s ability to render complex emotional research “comprehensible and reassuring,” crediting the blend of rigorous findings and personal anecdotes.<ref name="TIME20211123" /> ''{{Tooltip|Insider}}'' described the book as “science-backed” and practical, offering tools to express and understand more than 87 emotions.<ref name="BusinessInsider20220217">{{cite news |title='Atlas of the Heart' review: Brené Brown’s map to vulnerability |url=https://www.businessinsider.com/guides/learning/brene-brown-atlas-of-the-heart-book-review |work=Insider |date=17 February 2022 |access-date=28 October 2025}}</ref> |
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👎 '''Criticism'''. In a mixed take, ''Time'' argued the book can feel “reader-friendly yet… thinnest,” with oversized quotations and some less persuasive sections, and |
👎 '''Criticism'''. In a mixed take, ''{{Tooltip|Time}}'' argued the book can feel “reader-friendly yet… thinnest,” with oversized quotations and some less persuasive sections, and suggested it often works best as a dip-in reference.<ref name="TIME20211123" /> ''The Guardian'' critiqued “Tedcore” self-help—including ''Atlas of the Heart''—for a feel-good philosophy and at times vague research claims.<ref name="Guardian20220518">{{cite news |last=Phillips-Horst |first=Steven |title=Tedcore: the self-help books that have changed the way we live, speak and think |url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2022/may/17/self-help-books-atlas-heart-atomic-habits-body-keeps-score |work=The Guardian |date=18 May 2022 |access-date=28 October 2025}}</ref> |
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🌍 '''Impact & adoption'''. HBO Max ordered an unscripted docuseries based on the book in October 2021, |
🌍 '''Impact & adoption'''. {{Tooltip|HBO Max}} ordered an unscripted docuseries based on the book in October 2021,<ref name="WBDPress20211007" /> and the five-episode series premiered in March 2022 and screened at {{Tooltip|SXSW}} on 11 March 2022.<ref name="BrownHBO202203" /><ref name="SXSW20220311">{{cite web |title=Brené Brown: Atlas of the Heart—SXSW Schedule |url=https://schedule.sxsw.com/2022/events/FS14892 |website=SXSW |publisher=SXSW |date=11 March 2022 |access-date=28 October 2025}}</ref> In higher-education and adult-learning settings, the material has been used in coursework and book-study programs (examples include an {{Tooltip|Arizona State University}} syllabus referencing the series and an {{Tooltip|Osher Lifelong Learning Institute}} course built around the book in Fall 2025).<ref name="ASUSyllabus2025">{{cite web |title=SWU 250 Online Syllabus (Spring A 2025) |url=https://webapp4.asu.edu/bookstore/viewsyllabus/2251/17542/pdf |website=Arizona State University |publisher=Arizona State University |date=2025 |access-date=28 October 2025}}</ref><ref name="OLLIDU2025">{{cite web |title=Using Emotional Understanding to Improve Communication — Based on Brené Brown’s Atlas of the Heart (Syllabus) |url=https://ollidenver.du.edu/duolli/configuration/duolli/content/usingemotionalunderstandingtoimprove.pdf |website=Osher Lifelong Learning Institute at the University of Denver |publisher=University of Denver |date=October 2025 |access-date=28 October 2025}}</ref> |
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"Anger is a catalyst."
— Brené Brown, Atlas of the Heart (2021)
~*~
Introduction
| Atlas of the Heart | |
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| Full title | Atlas of the Heart: Mapping Meaningful Connection and the Language of Human Experience |
| Author | Brené Brown |
| Language | English |
| Subject | Emotions; Emotional literacy; Interpersonal communication |
| Genre | Nonfiction; Psychology; Self-help |
| Publisher | Random House |
Publication date | 30 November 2021 |
| Publication place | United States |
| Media type | Print (hardcover); e-book; audiobook |
| Pages | 336 |
| ISBN | 978-0-399-59255-3 |
| Goodreads rating | 4.3/5 (as of 6 November 2025) |
| Website | penguinrandomhouse.com |
📘 Atlas of the Heart is a 2021 nonfiction book by Brené Brown that maps 87 emotions and experiences and offers a research-based framework for meaningful connection.[1] It gathers those ideas into 13 “places we go” groupings and argues that expanding our emotional vocabulary strengthens relationships, drawing on surveys of 7,000 people in which most could name only three emotions as they occurred.[2] The first hardcover edition was published by Random House on 30 November 2021 and runs 336 pages.[1][3] Publishers Weekly highlighted the launch as “the #1 book in the country” in its bestsellers column for the week of 13 December 2021.[4] The book was also adapted into a five-episode HBO Max docuseries that premiered in March 2022.[5][6]
~*~
Chapters
Chapter 1 – Places we go when things are uncertain or too much
🌪️ A busy kitchen during a weekend dinner rush gives two names to overload: servers say they’re “in the weeds” when the pace is stressful but solvable with help, and “blown” when the only safe move is to step away and reset. That distinction maps this cluster—stress, overwhelm, anxiety, worry, avoidance, excitement, dread, fear, and vulnerability—so people can choose a fitting response instead of reacting on autopilot. Stress is the body’s high-alert problem-solving mode; overwhelm is the cognitive and emotional flood that suspends problem-solving until capacity returns. Anxiety grows in the gap of uncertainty, while worry is the mental loop that tries to control what hasn’t happened yet and often recruits avoidance for short-term relief. Fear concerns an immediate threat; dread mixes anticipation with apprehension and can masquerade as productivity through over-preparation. Excitement shares arousal with anxiety but directs attention toward opportunity rather than danger, which can redirect the body’s energy. Vulnerability runs through the set as exposure to risk and uncertainty—not weakness but the condition that makes help, support, and authentic action possible. Precise naming under pressure moves people from diffuse discomfort to specific choices—ask for help, pause, or re-enter with a calmer plan. Granularity strengthens connection because clear words make clear requests.
Chapter 2 – Places we go when we compare
⚖️ A late-night scroll mixes a coworker’s promotion, a friend’s milestone, and a rival’s stumble—an instant laboratory for comparison with real social cues, time stamps, and like counters. This cluster includes admiration and reverence as elevating responses to excellence or sacredness; envy wanting what someone else has; jealousy defending what feels at risk; and resentment keeping score when perceived fairness breaks. It also names the twin spikes social feeds surface: schadenfreude (pleasure at another’s setback) and freudenfreude (joy at another’s success), with the latter strengthening ties when practiced deliberately. Comparison narrows attention to rank and scarcity, which can turn people into threats and mute gratitude for one’s own lane. Expectations about who we “should” be intensify the effect when identities, appearance, or status stay constantly visible and searchable. Language helps people catch the micro-shifts—envy versus jealousy, reverence versus admiration—so they can choose celebration, boundaries, or perspective instead of defaulting to self-critique. Naming the exact state breaks comparison’s spell and restores belonging. Practicing freudenfreude turns the same engine toward connection rather than distance.
Chapter 3 – Places we go when things don't go as planned
🧭 A launch date slips, the school board posts a weather closure at dawn, or a connecting flight cancels at the gate—ordinary scenes where plans collide with reality and feelings stack up fast. Boredom (wanting to engage but feeling unable) differs from frustration (blocked goals), and disappointment (an unmet expectation) differs from discouragement (energy lost after a setback). Regret (a backward-looking signal tied to agency and choices) differs from resignation (giving up), and hidden or inflated expectations magnify all of them. Boredom can nudge exploration when agency is present; without it, irritability rises and attention scatters. Disappointment shrinks when expectations are explicit, negotiated, and reality-tested, while regret becomes instructive when people acknowledge choice points rather than spiral into shame. Resignation may feel like relief in the moment but quietly erodes efficacy; frustration eases when goals are broken into smaller steps and timelines flex to new constraints. With clear labels, teams and families can move from “everything went wrong” to “we’re in disappointment and frustration—let’s reset expectations and next actions.” Because appraisal filters events into emotions, revising expectations together restores agency. Naming these states links language to repair and turns detours into chances to reconnect and continue.
Chapter 4 – Places we go when it's beyond us
🌌 In 2003, psychologists Dacher Keltner and Jonathan Haidt described awe as arising from “perceived vastness” and a “need for accommodation”—moments that force our mental maps to stretch (Cognition & Emotion, 17(2):297–314).[7] In 2015, Paul Piff and colleagues ran five studies (N=2,078) showing that brief awe inductions—including standing among a grove of towering trees—consistently shrank the “small self” and increased helping (Journal of Personality and Social Psychology).[8] Curiosity fits here too: George Loewenstein’s information-gap theory (1994) holds that curiosity flips on when we notice a gap between what we know and want to know (Psychological Bulletin).[9] Paul Silvia’s experiments show interest blooms when novelty/complexity meets comprehensibility (Emotion, 2005).[10]
Chapter 5 – Places we go when things aren't what they seem
🎭 In 1956, Leon Festinger, Henry Riecken, and Stanley Schachter published When Prophecy Fails, their field study of a small Chicago group whose world-ending flood never arrived; many members resolved the clash by doubling down—an enduring example of cognitive dissonance and motivated reasoning. This set includes amusement, bittersweetness, nostalgia, cognitive dissonance, paradox, irony, and sarcasm. Amusement lets us toy with incongruity; bittersweetness pairs joy with loss. Nostalgia—once framed as homesickness—is a bittersweet emotion that can steady identity when handled gently. Cognitive dissonance tenses mind and body when behavior and belief collide, tempting self-justification to restore coherence. Paradox asks us to hold two truths at once; irony and sarcasm can bond or distance depending on use. Naming the exact experience slows the reflex to defend and keeps conversation open.
Chapter 6 – Places we go when we're hurting
💔 At Columbia University’s Center for Prolonged Grief, researchers distinguish acute grief from integrated grief and a prolonged form that leaves people “stuck”; across large reviews, the intense acute phase typically gives way to integrated grief within about 6–12 months for most bereaved people. This cluster covers anguish, hopelessness, despair, sadness, and grief. Anguish is an almost unbearable collision of shock, incredulity, grief, and powerlessness. Hopelessness drains both pathways and agency; when it saturates the future, it becomes despair. Sadness is a natural, time-limited slowing; grief blends loss, longing, and feeling lost. Effective responses emphasize co-regulation, presence, boundaries, and timely professional help. Naming where we are guides what helps: safety for anguish, pathway-building for hopelessness, and oscillation between loss and restoration for grief.
Chapter 7 – Places we go with others
🤝 A hospital waiting room at 2 a.m. tests language: one person sits and says, “I’m with you,” another stands at a distance and says, “At least…,” and the difference changes the room. This cluster includes compassion, pity, empathy, sympathy, boundaries, and comparative suffering. Compassion is a practice; empathy is the skill set that recognizes emotion, stays out of judgment, and communicates understanding. Sympathy observes from the balcony; pity adds a power gap. Boundaries keep care sustainable. Comparative suffering tries to rank pain, blocking connection. Specific language—naming what we feel and what we can offer—turns vague concern into steady presence.
Chapter 8 – Places we go when we fall short
📉 A project post-mortem with missed milestones and redlined drafts sets the stage for shame, self-compassion, perfectionism, guilt, humiliation, and embarrassment. Shame speaks in global identity terms (“I am bad”); guilt targets behavior (“I did something bad”). Humiliation involves feeling wronged; embarrassment is a fleeting social exposure. Perfectionism masquerades as striving but is a shield against judgment. Self-compassion counters the spiral with mindfulness, common humanity, and kindness. Accurate labeling shifts rumination to responsibility—repair, reset, or rest.
Chapter 9 – Places we go when we search for connection
🔗 A first-day orientation—clip-on badge, crowded room—surfaces belonging, fitting in, connection, disconnection, insecurity, invisibility, loneliness. Belonging means being accepted as yourself; fitting in is contorting to match the group. Connection shows as mutual care; disconnection can be as small as a phone glance. Loneliness is the gap between the connection we have and the connection we need. Saying “I’m feeling left out,” “I’m trying to fit in,” or “I need company” invites clear responses. Specific naming fuels reciprocal cues.
Chapter 10 – Places we go when the heart is open
💖 At the University of Washington “Love Lab,” John Gottman popularized “sliding door moments”—small chances to turn toward or away that build or erode trust—and labeled “flooding” when arousal spikes make problem-solving impossible, a cue to pause and regulate.[11][12] This terrain includes love, lovelessness, heartbreak, trust, self-trust, betrayal, defensiveness, flooding, and hurt. Naming “flooding” or “betrayal of our agreement” steers conflict toward repair; repeated micro-bids compound into trust.
Chapter 11 – Places we go when life is good
🌞 In randomized studies, listing “blessings” boosted positive affect, exercise, and (in a clinical sample) sleep quality—an early experimental case for gratitude practices.[13] This cluster covers joy, happiness, calm, contentment, gratitude, foreboding joy, relief, and tranquility. Calm is trainable; contentment follows sufficiency; relief marks the subsiding of threat. Rituals—gratitude lists, calm-breathing questions, savoring—help us inhabit good times fully. First, whether calm is a practice or something more inherent, there are behaviors specific to cultivating and maintaining calm that include a lot of self-questioning.
Chapter 12 – Places we go when we feel wronged
🗯️ Nick Haslam distinguishes animalistic and mechanistic dehumanization—each loosening moral concern and licensing harm (Personality and Social Psychology Review, 2006).[14] Susan Fiske’s stereotype-content model links low-warmth/low-competence judgments to contempt and disgust (Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 2002).[15] Paul Rozin’s work traces disgust from pathogen defense to moral disgust (1999 review chapter).[16] Anger can be clean energy for boundary-setting; contempt corrodes connection; self-righteousness hardens identity. Catch the slide early—name anger before it curdles into contempt; replace dehumanizing labels with specific grievances and limits.
Chapter 13 – Places we go to self-assess
📝 In seven studies, Jessica Tracy and Richard Robins distinguished two facets of pride: authentic (effort-based) and hubristic (inflated self-regard) (Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 2007).[17] Pride at its healthiest celebrates earned effort; hubris craves dominance. Humility is grounded confidence plus openness to correction. Simple prompts (“what did I do well, where did I fall short, what did I learn?”) convert vague pride into accountable reflection.
—Note: The above summary follows the Random House hardcover edition (2021; ISBN 978-0-399-59255-3).[1] Chapter headings cross-checked with WorldCat (OCLC 1264709572).[18]
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Background & reception
🖋️ Author & writing. Brown is a research professor at the University of Houston, where she holds the Huffington Foundation Endowed Chair at the Graduate College of Social Work.[19] She also holds a visiting appointment in management at the University of Texas at Austin’s McCombs School of Business.[20] In the book’s framing, she positions the project as a language “map” to help readers build meaningful connection and practice careful stewardship of one another’s stories.[1] Surveys across five years found respondents could often identify only three emotions in the moment; the book answers by charting 87 distinctions and offering strategies for working with them.[2][21]
📈 Commercial reception. The book debuted strongly: Publishers Weekly called it “the #1 book in the country” for the week of 13 December 2021,[4] and it led the Los Angeles Times hardcover nonfiction list on 12 December 2021 and again on 6 March 2022.[22][23]
👍 Praise. Library Journal praised the audio edition as “outstanding,” noting clear explanations and added stories, and recommended multiple copies for libraries.[24] Time commended Brown’s ability to render complex emotional research “comprehensible and reassuring,” crediting the blend of rigorous findings and personal anecdotes.[2] Insider described the book as “science-backed” and practical, offering tools to express and understand more than 87 emotions.[25]
👎 Criticism. In a mixed take, Time argued the book can feel “reader-friendly yet… thinnest,” with oversized quotations and some less persuasive sections, and suggested it often works best as a dip-in reference.[2] The Guardian critiqued “Tedcore” self-help—including Atlas of the Heart—for a feel-good philosophy and at times vague research claims.[26]
🌍 Impact & adoption. HBO Max ordered an unscripted docuseries based on the book in October 2021,[6] and the five-episode series premiered in March 2022 and screened at SXSW on 11 March 2022.[5][27] In higher-education and adult-learning settings, the material has been used in coursework and book-study programs (examples include an Arizona State University syllabus referencing the series and an Osher Lifelong Learning Institute course built around the book in Fall 2025).[28][29]
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See also
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References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 "Atlas of the Heart". Penguin Random House. Penguin Random House. 30 November 2021. Retrieved 28 October 2025.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 Luscombe, Belinda (23 November 2021). "Brené Brown Thinks You Should Talk About These 87 Emotions". Time. Retrieved 28 October 2025.
- ↑ "Atlas of the heart : mapping meaningful connection and the language of human experience (print ed., first edition)". WorldCat. OCLC. Retrieved 28 October 2025.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 Juris, Carolyn (10 December 2021). "This Week's Bestsellers: December 13, 2021". Publishers Weekly. Retrieved 28 October 2025.
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 "HBO Max Presents Atlas of the Heart". Brené Brown. Brené Brown. March 2022. Retrieved 28 October 2025.
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 "HBO Max Orders Docuseries BRENÉ BROWN: ATLAS OF THE HEART From Dr. Brené Brown". Warner Bros. Discovery Pressroom. Warner Bros. Discovery. 7 October 2021. Retrieved 28 October 2025.
- ↑ Keltner, Dacher; Haidt, Jonathan (2003). "Approaching awe, a moral, spiritual, and aesthetic emotion" (PDF). Cognition and Emotion. 17 (2): 297–314. doi:10.1080/02699930302297. Retrieved 6 November 2025.
- ↑ Piff, Paul K.; Dietze, Pia; Feinberg, Matthew; Stancato, Daniel M.; Keltner, Dacher (2015). "Awe, the Small Self, and Prosocial Behavior". Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. 108 (6): 883–899. doi:10.1037/pspi0000018. Retrieved 6 November 2025.
- ↑ Loewenstein, George (1994). "The Psychology of Curiosity: A Review and Reinterpretation" (PDF). Psychological Bulletin. 116 (1): 75–98. doi:10.1037/0033-2909.116.1.75. Retrieved 6 November 2025.
- ↑ Silvia, Paul J. (March 2005). "What is interesting? Exploring the appraisal structure of interest". Emotion. 5 (1): 89–102. doi:10.1037/1528-3542.5.1.89. Retrieved 6 November 2025.
- ↑ "What Makes Love Last: Sliding Door Moments". The Gottman Institute. The Gottman Institute. 4 March 2024. Retrieved 6 November 2025.
- ↑ "Making Sure Emotional Flooding Doesn't Capsize Your Relationship". The Gottman Institute. The Gottman Institute. 4 March 2024. Retrieved 6 November 2025.
- ↑ Emmons, Robert A.; McCullough, Michael E. (February 2003). "Counting blessings versus burdens: An experimental investigation of gratitude and subjective well-being in daily life". Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. 84 (2): 377–389. doi:10.1037/0022-3514.84.2.377. Retrieved 6 November 2025.
- ↑ Haslam, Nick (2006). "Dehumanization: An Integrative Review". Personality and Social Psychology Review. 10 (3): 252–264. doi:10.1207/s15327957pspr1003_4. Retrieved 6 November 2025.
- ↑ Fiske, Susan T.; Cuddy, Amy J. C.; Glick, Peter; Xu, Jun (2002). "A Model of (Often Mixed) Stereotype Content: Competence and Warmth Respectively Follow From Perceived Status and Competition". Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. 82 (6): 878–902. doi:10.1037/0022-3514.82.6.878. Retrieved 6 November 2025.
- ↑ Rozin, Paul; Haidt, Jonathan; McCauley, Clark R. (1999). Disgust: The Body and Soul Emotion. Wiley. doi:10.1002/0470013494.ch21. Retrieved 6 November 2025.
- ↑ Tracy, Jessica L.; Robins, Richard W. (2007). "The Psychological Structure of Pride: A Tale of Two Facets". Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. 92 (3): 506–525. doi:10.1037/0022-3514.92.3.506. Retrieved 6 November 2025.
- ↑ "Atlas of the heart : mapping meaningful connection and the language of human experience". WorldCat. OCLC. Retrieved 28 October 2025.
- ↑ "Brené Brown: Faculty Directory". University of Houston. University of Houston. Retrieved 28 October 2025.
- ↑ "Curriculum Vitae: Brené Brown, Ph.D., MSW" (PDF). University of Houston. University of Houston. 23 March 2022. Retrieved 28 October 2025.
- ↑ "Guides & Resources". Brené Brown. Brené Brown. Retrieved 28 October 2025.
- ↑ "Bestsellers List Sunday, December 12". Los Angeles Times. 8 December 2021. Retrieved 28 October 2025.
- ↑ "Bestsellers List Sunday, March 6". Los Angeles Times. 2 March 2022. Retrieved 28 October 2025.
- ↑ Farrell, Beth (1 September 2022). "Atlas of the Heart: Mapping Meaningful Connection and the Language of Human Experience". Library Journal. Library Journal. Retrieved 28 October 2025.
- ↑ "'Atlas of the Heart' review: Brené Brown's map to vulnerability". Insider. 17 February 2022. Retrieved 28 October 2025.
- ↑ Phillips-Horst, Steven (18 May 2022). "Tedcore: the self-help books that have changed the way we live, speak and think". The Guardian. Retrieved 28 October 2025.
- ↑ "Brené Brown: Atlas of the Heart—SXSW Schedule". SXSW. SXSW. 11 March 2022. Retrieved 28 October 2025.
- ↑ "SWU 250 Online Syllabus (Spring A 2025)". Arizona State University. Arizona State University. 2025. Retrieved 28 October 2025.
- ↑ "Using Emotional Understanding to Improve Communication — Based on Brené Brown's Atlas of the Heart (Syllabus)" (PDF). Osher Lifelong Learning Institute at the University of Denver. University of Denver. October 2025. Retrieved 28 October 2025.