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You think you can read facial expressions? You’re wrong.

Facial expressions are not reliable indicators of how people are feeling, says Northeastern professor Lisa Feldman Barrett.
- by Khalida Sarwari July 19, 2019
It’s time to bust some 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.
- by Molly Callahan April 18, 2019
You want to manage your anger better. Your brain wants you to stay alive. Here’s how you can do both.

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.
- by Molly Callahan February 21, 2019
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.
- by Molly Callahan January 22, 2019
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.
- by Khalida Sarwari January 22, 2019
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.
- by Khalida Sarwari January 15, 2019
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.
- by Bill Ibelle August 6, 2018
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.
- by Allie Nicodemo May 11, 2018
Northeastern professor Lisa Feldman Barrett elected to American Academy of Arts and Sciences

Professor Barrett, who has dedicated her career to redefining our understanding of emotions, has been elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. "Something like this is never really the result of efforts by one single person," Barrett said. "It belongs to a whole community of people working together-my lab, both current and former members, and my collaborators."
- by Allie Nicodemo April 18, 2018
Scientists have long believed humans' physiological reaction to emotions to be uniform. This study says they’re wrong

For hundreds of years, psychologists have operated under the notion that each emotion category-anger, sadness, fear, disgust, happiness, surprise-has its own physiological fingerprint. And that assumption is not true, according to new research by Northeastern psychologists Lisa Feldman Barrett and Karen S. Quigley.
- by Allie Nicodemo April 17, 2018

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You think you can read facial expressions? You’re wrong.

It’s time to bust some neuroscience myths

You want to manage your anger better. Your brain wants you to stay alive. Here’s how you can do both.

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

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

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

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

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

Northeastern professor Lisa Feldman Barrett elected to American Academy of Arts and Sciences

Scientists have long believed humans' physiological reaction to emotions to be uniform. This study says they’re wrong

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