Lisa Feldman Barrett

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

Northeastern’s highest achievements on display at the Academic Honors Convocation

Northeastern University on Thursday celebrated the achievements of more than 60 students, faculty, and alumni at the Academic Honors Convocation in East Village.

by Ian Thomsen April 18, 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