New Hampshire Public Radio How emotions are made: The secret life of the brain Our guest says most of us are pretty clueless about this – given all the misinformation on how our brains and bodies create our “feelings.” In her new book, Lisa Feldman Barrett challenges long-held theories about emotions, debunked by modern neuroscience, but still shaping everything from health care to public safety.
Scientific American Darwin Was Wrong: Your Facial Expressions Do Not Reveal Your Emotions Lisa Feldman Barrett is a professor of psychology at Northeastern University. She is the author of several books, including How Emotions Are Made: The Secret Life of the Brain. Follow her on Twitter @LFeldmanBarrett.
MIT Technology Review This is how your brain makes your mind Lisa Feldman Barrett is a professor of psychology at Northeastern University and the author of Seven and a Half Lessons About the Brain and How Emotions Are Made: The Secret Life of the Brain.
3 secrets to becoming emotionally intelligent Lisa Feldman Barrett is a Professor of Psychology at Northeastern University, with appointments at Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School. Her new book How Emotions Are Made: The Secret Life of the Brain turns everything you know about the feels upside down.
The Week Neuroscience reveals 3 secrets that will make you emotionally intelligent And it turns out the latest research shows that the little we know about emotions is actually all wrong. And I mean really wrong. Lisa Feldman Barrett is a professor of psychology at Northeastern University, with appointments at Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School. Her new book How Emotions Are Made: The Secret Life of the Brainturns […]
Professor explains ‘how emotions are made’ Human emotions have confounded people for centuries, especially people who want to measure and understand them. Our next guest is one of those researchers. Her advice is think of emotions like money: very real but also created by human agreement. Northeastern University psychology professor Lisa Feldman Barrett says this in her new book, “How Emotions […]
Lying may be your brain’s fault, honestly This new research, while interesting, doesn’t leave neuroscientist Lisa Feldman Barrett entirely convinced. Barrett, a professor of psychology at Northeastern University and author of the forthcoming book, “How Emotions are Made: The Secret Life of the Brain,” says focusing on the amygdala as the brain’s source of emotion may be misguided. Hand-selected, meta-analyses of brain […]
Stuck In A Rut? Sometimes Joy Takes A Little Practice For thousands of years, there’s been a common belief in Western culture about emotions — that they are hard-wired and reflexive, psychologist Lisa Feldman Barrett writes in the book How Emotions Are Made: The Secret Life of the Brain. “When something happens in the world … our emotions come on fast and uncontrollable, as if somebody […]
PMS Is Not Just a Cliché Lisa Feldman Barrett is a professor of psychology at Northeastern University and the author of “How Emotions Are Made: The Secret Life of the Brain.”
Joy and Fear on Coney Island’s Emotional Roller Coaster Looking over the photos that accompany this article, Lisa Feldman Barrett, a professor of psychology at Northeastern University and the author of “How Emotions are Made: The Secret Life of the Brain,” homed in on one of a man and two children in V-neck sweaters.
Medium Could an A.I. Ever Become Sentient? Author and Northeastern University neuroscience and psychology professor Dr. Lisa Feldman Barrett argues in her book How Emotions Are Made: The Secret Life of the Brain that emotion is a learned concept, shaped by the society in which one’s mind develops. When a child is born, it experiences only sensations that result in pleasure or pain. As […]
Lisa Feldman Barrett: Can we really tell how other people are feeling? Identifying basic emotions in others — like fear, sadness or anger — seems instinctive, but psychologist Lisa Feldman Barrett says we’re doing more guesswork than we think. Lisa Feldman Barrett is Professor of Psychology at Northeastern University, with appointments at Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts General Hospital. She has studied emotion in the brain for […]