Your Brain Is Not for Thinking Lisa Feldman Barrett (@LFeldmanBarrett) is a professor of psychology at Northeastern University and the author of “Seven and a Half Lessons About the Brain,” from which this essay is adapted.
Psychology Today How to Avoid Overdrinking or Overeating During the Holidays Recently, Dr. Lisa Feldman Barrett, the Director of the Interdisciplinary Affective Science Lab at Northeastern University, wrote an article in The New York Times entitled, “Your Brain Is Not for Thinking.” Instead, our brain is very good at keeping us alive and well, she explains. All the time, it is monitoring how things are going in our stomach, liver, […]
How ‘superagers’ stay sharp in their later years When it comes to retirement, experts recommend that everyone do some hard thinking. By this, they mean you should plan your finances responsibly, consider carefully where to live, and decide what colour beach chair to sit in all day as you sip strawberry daiquiris in the sun. But there’s another reason to think hard about […]
Hillary fails with Donald in trail’s gotcha moment: Read my lips “They’re all playing a similar game,” Nicholas Beauchamp said on the phone the other day. He’s an assistant professor in the political science department at Northeastern University in Boston. “The question is where do they have their settings, inasmuch as all of them are thinking about their public persona. And as we all know when […]