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Lisa Feldman Barrett

Neuroscientist, Psychologist, and Author

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Construction, Core Systems, Emotion, Emotional Granularity, Neuroscience, Videos · April 18, 2020

A Cinematic Lecture on Emotion

For more than a year, my lab worked with filmmaker Van Yang to present ideas from my book, How Emotions are Made, as a 40-minute "cinematic …

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Emotion, Popular Press · July 21, 2018

How to be Misquoted

One of the perils of speaking to the media about science is that occasionally, I'm misquoted in print. …

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Emotion, Emotional Intelligence, Psychology, Videos · January 13, 2018

You aren’t at the mercy of your emotions (TED Talk)

Can you look at someone's face and know what they're feeling? Does everyone experience happiness, sadness and anxiety the same way? What are …

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Neuroscience, Politics, Psychology · June 4, 2017

Poverty on the Brain

By now, you’ve probably heard about Ben Carson’s astonishing statement that poverty is largely “a state of mind.” …

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Animals, Emotion, Mental Inference Fallacy, Myths About the Brain, Psychology, Vocabulary · May 24, 2017

The Mental Inference Fallacy

Dr. Frankenstein was up late one night, working on his monster project. He popped open the monster's skull, attached electrodes to the brain …

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Construction, Emotion, Food, Neuroscience, Vocabulary · May 6, 2017

Simulation

Let's play a game. I hand you a diaper with a brownish smear in the center. I tell you that the smear is baby food and ask you to smell it. …

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Essentialism, Myths About the Brain, Neuroscience, Popular Press, Psychology, Studies · April 17, 2017

Brain Circuits for Emotion?

Imagine that you live in the world of Harry Potter. One morning, while reading the Daily Prophet, you notice an intriguing news headline: …

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Emotion, Health, Superagers, Videos · March 31, 2017

Talking About the Brain with Maria Shriver

After my appearance on the Today Show this month, I had an interesting, informal chat with host Maria Shriver about emotion and the brain, …

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Construction, Essentialism, Evolution, History of Science, Neuroscience, Population Thinking, Vocabulary · March 19, 2017

Population Thinking

Charles Darwin and Aristotle walk into a bar and order martinis. Aristotle's drink comes first and he takes a sip. …

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Emotion, Essentialism, Neuroscience, Population Thinking, Vocabulary · March 15, 2017

Pattern Classification Explained

I dreamed last night that my phone had a magical app to distinguish between healthful foods and desserts. …

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