Errata for How Emotions are Made

Last updated 2023–07–11

The page numbers refer to the U.S. first edition (hardback) of How Emotions are Made unless otherwise noted.

English errata

Errata in the main text

Chapter	Page	Location	Correction	Fixed in which edition?
Introduction	xii	First complete paragraph, at the following text: "People suffering from a variety of mental illnesses,"	The text should be: "People with a variety of types of minds,"	Not fixed yet
1	5	First complete paragraph, at the following text: "surprise, sadness, and happiness."	The text is correct, but the order of the emotion words does not match Figure 1-2 which follows the paragraph. To resolve this small inconsistency, the text should be: "surprise, happiness, and sadness."	Not fixed yet
1	13	Third complete paragraph, at the following text: "an African tribe, the Minangkabau"	The text should be: "an Indonesian tribe, the Minangkabau"	US, UK paperback
2	29	First two lines, at the following text: "twelve equally spaced pitches: the equal-tempered scale codified by Johann Sebastian Bach in the seventeenth century"	The text should be: "twelve equally spaced pitches, an arrangement known as the twelve tone equal-tempered scale."	US, UK paperback
3	51	First paragraph, at the following text: "ancient Greeks and Romans" and this text: "Latin or Ancient Greek"	The first text should be: "ancient Romans" and the second text should be: "Latin" See also this article for additional details.	US, UK paperback
4	82	Last line, at the following text: "Your interceptive"	The misspelled word "interceptive" should be "interoceptive": "Your interoceptive"	Not fixed yet
5	92	First complete paragraph, final sentence, at the following text: "Your experience it"	The word "Your" should be "You": "You experience it"	Not fixed yet
7	133	First complete paragraph, at the following text: "without color concepts,"	The text should be: "without color and sound concepts,"	US, UK paperback
7	145	Figure 7-2 (Rainbow drawings)	[The text in the book is correct, but some readers have asked questions about it, so here is a clarifying note.] If you live in certain Western countries, you may have been taught that rainbows have seven stripes, not six, with Indigo inserted in between Blue and Violet. Nevertheless, Russian culture divides the spectrum into different color categories, as described.	(no fix needed)
7	146	Second line, the Russian word: Голубой	The capital letter Г should be in lower-case: голубой	Not fixed yet
7	148	First complete paragraph, second sentence: Utka Eskimos have no concept of “Anger.”	See this clarifying note.	(no fix needed)
10	205	Second complete paragraph, at the following text: "the agony of pushing a thirty-five-centimeter head through a ten-centimeter cervix."	[The text in the book is correct, but some readers have asked questions about it, so here is a clarifying note.] Technically, the head measurement is circumference and the cervix measurement is diameter, but the point still stands. (10 cm diameter = 31.4 cm circumference.)	(no fix needed)
11	219 (UK editions only)	Footnote text, lines 6-7: "Scotland, Northern Ireland, and the Republic of Ireland."	Remove mention of the Republic of Ireland. The remaining text should be: "Scotland, and Northern Ireland."	Not fixed yet
11	226	First incomplete paragraph.	"Madeline'" should be spelled "Madeleine"	US, UK paperback
11	235	Final paragraph, at the following text: "...the man he shot was an employee of the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA). The victim, Rodney Cox, was African American; Workman is white."	The text should be: "...the man he shot, Rodney Cox, was an employee of the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA)."	US paperback

Errata in references, endnotes, and index

Chapter	Page	Location	Correction	Fixed in which edition?
Bibliography	326	This reference: Bourassa-Perron, Cynthia. 2011. The Brain and Emotional Intelligence: New Insights. Florence, MA: More Than Sound.	The author should be: Goleman, Daniel. instead of "Bourassa-Perron, Cynthia."	Not fixed yet
Bibliography	332	This reference: Dunfield, Kristen, Valerie A. Kuhlmeier, Laura O’Connell, and Elizabeth Kelley. 2011. “Examining the Diversity of Prosocial Behavior: Helping, Sharing, and Comforting in Infancy.” Infancy 16 (3): 227–247.	The text should be: Dunfield, Kristen A. and Valerie A. Kuhlmeier. 2013. "Classifying Prosocial Behavior: Children's Responses to Instrumental Need, Emotional Distress, and Material Desire." Child Development, 84 (5): 1766–1776.	US, UK paperback
Bibliography	332	This reference: Einstein, Albert, Leopold Infeld, and Banesh Hoffmann. 1938. “The Gravitational Equations and the Problem of Motion.” Annals of Mathematics 39 (1): 65–100.	The text should be: Einstein, Albert and Leopold Infeld. 1938. Evolution of Physics. Cambridge, United Kingdom: Cambridge University Press.	US, UK paperback
Bibliography	337	Just before the reference: Greene, Brian. 2007.	Insert this reference: Gray, Henry. 1989. Gray’s Anatomy, 37th edition, edited by Peter L. Williams, Henry Gray, Lawrence H. Bannister, M. Dyson, and Richard M. Warwick. New York: Churchill Livingstone.	Not fixed yet
Bibliography	340	This reference: Jamieson, Jeremy P., Aaron Altose, Brett J. Peters, and Emily Greenwood. [...]	The order of the names should be: Jamieson, Jeremy P., Brett J. Peters, Emily Greenwood, and Aaron Altose. [...]	US, UK paperback
Bibliography	357	This reference: Simon, Herbert A. 1991. ...	The year should be 1962.	US, UK paperback
Bibliography	360	This reference: Tassinary, Louis G., John T. Cacioppo, and Eric J. Vanman. 2007. ...	This entire reference should be deleted.	Not fixed yet
Notes	367	Endnote 4 (chapter 1), at the following text: Tassinary et al. 2007	The text should be: Gray 1989, 165–176, 570–580.	Not fixed yet
Notes	383	Endnote 5 (chapter 7), at the following text: Einstein et al. 1938, 33	The text should be: Einstein and Infeld 1938, 33.	US, UK paperback
Notes	389	Endnote 11 (chapter 9), at the following text: Bourassa-Perron 2011	The text should be: Goleman 2011	Not fixed yet
Notes	403	Endnote 38 (chapter 12), at the following text: Dunfield et al. 2011	The text should be: Dunfield and Kuhlmeier 2013	US, UK paperback
Notes	405	Endnote 6 (chapter 13), at the following text: Simon 1991	The text should be: Simon 1962	US, UK paperback
Index	410	Index entry: Albright, Madeline	"Madeline" should be spelled "Madeleine"	US, UK paperback
Index	421	Index entry: Panksepp, Jaak	In the US edition, the pages should be: Panksepp, Jaak, 158, 277, 294, 404 In the UK edition, the entry should be: Panksepp, Jaak, 158, 279, 296, 407	Not fixed yet

Deutsche Errata

Errata im Haupttext

Kapitel	Buchseite	Position	Korrektur	In welcher Edition behoben?
Einführung	19	Der letzte Absatz, beginnend mit dem folgenden Text: "Der Golfkrieg im Irak brach nur deshalb aus..."	Dieser Satz über Saddam Husseins Halbbruder ist falsch übersetzt. Der Fehler des Bruders wird als „einzige“ Ursache des Golfkriegs bezeichnet, was lächerlich ist. Aus dem englischen Originaltext geht klar hervor, dass der Fehler des Bruders nur ein Faktor im Krieg war. The Gulf War in Iraq was launched, in part, because Saddam Hussein’s half-brother thought he could read the emotions of the American negotiators and informed Saddam that the U.S. wasn’t serious about attacking.	Not fixed yet