30/12/2025
First Book of 2026:
The Power of Feeling Emotion
Available January 2026
Professor Freitas‑Magalhães, internationally recognized neuroscientist and one of the world’s leading authorities on facial expression and emotion, announces the release of his first book of 2026, The Power of Feeling Emotion: Neuroscience, Facial Expression and Consciousness, available worldwide in January 2026.
In this groundbreaking work, Freitas-Magalhães explores emotion not merely as a subjective experience, but as a biological, facial, and conscious phenomenon—one that bridges the brain, the face, and human awareness. Drawing on decades of scientific research and on his pioneering frameworks in facial neuroscience, the author proposes a unifying perspective in which feeling emotion is understood as an active neurocognitive force, shaping perception, decision-making, identity, and social connection.
The Power of Feeling Emotion integrates cutting-edge findings from neuroscience with the scientific analysis of facial expression, offering readers a comprehensive and original synthesis of how emotions are generated in the brain, expressed through the face, and experienced consciously. The book positions the face as a high-resolution interface of the emotional brain, where neural processes become visible, measurable, and meaningful.
Accessible yet rigorous, this volume is addressed to scientists, clinicians, psychologists, educators, and all readers interested in the nature of human emotion. It advances a central thesis: to feel emotion is not a passive state, but a powerful neurobiological act that connects brain, face, and consciousness into a single functional system.
With this publication, Professor Freitas-Magalhães once again reinforces his role as a visionary voice in contemporary affective neuroscience, opening new pathways for understanding emotion as a core element of human life and consciousness.