Lisa Feldman
Barrett
University Distinguished Professor of Psychology
Lisa Feldman Barrett in the Press
‘We May Have a Crisis on Our Hands’: The Unregulated Rise of Emotionally Intelligent AI
Lisa Feldman-Barrett, a psychology professor at Northeastern University, says “social support from a trusted, reliable source can be beneficial.” If an AI can reduce distress in the moment, she says that’s a good thing.
Vogue Germany
How affirmations work – and why they are more than just positive thinking
Neuroscientist Lisa Feldman Barrett teaches psychology at Northeastern University and is one of the most influential voices in modern emotion research. Her central thesis : Feelings do not simply arise from situations. They are actively constructed by the brain – with the help of experience, expectation , and language.
What If Our Ancestors Didn’t Feel Anything Like We Do?
How a particular brain assigns meaning has to do with a person’s prior experiences—what Lisa Feldman Barrett, the director of the Interdisciplinary Affective Science Laboratory at Northeastern University and the author of How Emotions Are Made, calls its “concepts and categories.”
Huberman Lab
Essentials: Science of Building Strong Social Bonds with Family, Friends & Romantic Partners
Mentions Lisa Feldman Barrett, professor of psychology at Northeastern University.
Emotionally Intelligent People Use the 5-Minute ‘Handshake With Stress’ Trick for Greater Resilience
As Northeastern University psychologist Lisa Feldman Barrett has explained, our emotions aren’t just experiences that bubble up involuntarily in our minds or bodies.
Is ‘Quiet Cracking’ Just a New Term for Burnout? It Still Says Something Important About Work Today
Research by Lisa Feldman Barrett of Northeastern University and others shows that the more precise language we have for our feelings, the better we are at understanding and coping with difficult emotions. More vocabulary can lead to more EQ.
Science Says Emotionally Intelligent People Use the ‘Rule of Regret’ to Strengthen Their Relationships
Lisa Feldman Barrett, neuroscientist and professor of psychology at Northeastern University, is one of the world’s foremost experts on the science of emotions.
To get from experience to emotion, the brain hits ‘sustain’
“Sure, [a sustained signal] happens in emotion,” says Lisa Feldman Barrett, a professor of psychology at Northeastern University. “But it also happens in all kinds of other instances,” like when a person is concentrating or remembering.
Relationships 2.0: Keeping Love Alive
Mentions insights from psychologist Lisa Feldman Barrett at Northeastern University on how our brain interprets emotion.
Salon
Containing multitudes: Why feeling mixed emotions can actually be healthy
According to Dr. Lisa Feldman Barrett, a neuroscientist at Northeastern University and longtime emotion researcher, trying to divide the brain’s emotional response into separate feelings of joy and rage is already a flawed premise for posing these questions.
