Lisa Feldman Barrett

Lisa Feldman Barrett in the Press

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.”

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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.

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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.

Neuroscience Discovered a Clever Trick for Squeezing More Joy Out of Everyday Pleasures

“It can certainly feel like emotions happen to you: that they bubble up and that they cause you to do and say things that are maybe ill-advised. But that explanation doesn’t really capture how your brain is making emotions,” explained Northeastern University neuroscientist Lisa Feldman Barrett on Big Think.

LeBron James, J.J. Redick, and Magic Johnson All Used the Same Word to Describe the Lakers’ Recent Blowout Losses. It’s a Lesson in Emotional Intelligence (Backed by Science)

Neuroscientist and Northeastern University Professor of Psychology Lisa Feldman Barrett speaks specifically about embarrassment in her book, How Emotions Are Made: The Secret Life of the Brain (Mariner Books, 2018).

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Twelve Northeastern scholars make ‘Highly Cited Researchers’ list

The faculty were included in this year’s “Highly Cited Researchers” list, scholars who rank among the top 1% of their field.

From pre-med to psychology pioneer: Lisa Feldman Barrett’s unexpected path to a lifetime achievement award

Barrett, Northeastern University distinguished professor, has received the Association for Psychological Science William James Fellow Award.

Northeastern University professor says we can’t gauge emotions from facial expressions alone

Facial expressions are not reliable indicators of how people are feeling, says Northeastern professor Lisa Feldman Barrett.

Lisa Feldman Barrett’s new book, supported by a Guggenheim Fellowship, corrects pervasive neuroscience myths

Lisa Feldman Barrett, a psychology professor at Northeastern who has been awarded a 2019 Guggenheim Fellowship, finds misinformation and myths about the brain everywhere. So she’s setting the record straight in a new book called Seven Insights About the Brain.

To manage your anger better, this Northeastern professor says to learn the difference between frustration and irritation.

Can you discern the differences among all the subtle shades of your anger? If we better understand how emotions differ from one another, we’ll be better equipped to respond to whatever provoked them, says Lisa Feldman Barrett, a Northeastern professor who studies the psychology of emotion.

You think you can read the facial expression on the teenager in the MAGA hat? You can’t.

“You can’t look at someone’s face and know how they feel. The evidence is very clear on this,” said Lisa Feldman Barrett, a University Distinguished Professor of Psychology at Northeastern who studies the way humans express emotion.

Scientific studies leaving you dazed and confused? These psychology professors want to change that.

Northeastern psychology professors Lisa Feldman Barrett and David DeSteno are working with scientists like themselves to demystify complex research for mainstream audiences.

What made this TED talk one of the most watched of 2018?

A talk by Northeastern psychology professor Lisa Feldman Barrett about how our brains control emotions amassed more than 3 million views last year.

What if people from different cultures and economic backgrounds have different brain wiring?

A new theory of human development challenges the belief that humans are born with an intricately wired social brain that has been developed through millions of years of evolution. “The infant brain is not a miniature adult brain; it needs wiring instructions from the world,” said Northeastern psychology professor Lisa Feldman Barrett.

Northeastern professor named president-elect for the Association of Psychological Science

Psychology professor Lisa Feldman Barrett, research in the field of affective neuroscience has upended conventional wisdom on the nature of emotions, has been named President-Elect for the Association of Psychological Science.

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