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Lisa Feldman Barrett

Neuroscientist, Psychologist, and Author

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Videos

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Popular

The biggest myths about emotions, debunked
An evolutionary history of the human brain, in 7 minutes
The Neuroscience of Trauma
Your brain doesn’t detect reality. It creates it.
How To Be a Human
"What Brain Evolution Reveals About Human Nature," part 1: What is a "controlled hallucination”?
"What Brain Evolution Reveals About Human Nature," part 2: The myth of lizard brain vs rational brain
"What Brain Evolution Reveals About Human Nature," part 3: Why does our brain make emotions?
Words Can Change Our Brains and Bodies
Your Brain Didn’t Evolve to Think. Here’s What It Does Best
You Aren't at the Mercy of your Emotions: Your Brain Creates Them
Cinematic Lecture: How Emotions are Made
How Emotions are Made, explained in 6 minutes
Cultivating Wisdom: The Power of Mood
Can Machines Perceive Emotion?
This is Why You Feel the Way You Feel
The Three Big Myths about Emotions, Gender and Brains
The Science of Being Scared
The Locust Mystery
How Emotions are Made (30 minutes)
Emotions: Separating Facts from Fictions
Musings for the Moment (series)
Wrong Answers Only quiz show: Fear
Empathable: Our Path to Human Empathy in a World of Machine Learning and AI

Shorts

What is social reality?
Social reality is all around us
We all uphold social reality by our behavior
Holidays are social reality - celebrate Fairy Day
Democracy is social reality, so treat it with care
Can you detect other people's emotions?
Why is the neuroscience of emotion important?
Boom, boom, clap! Can you hear it? (Your brain is predictive, not reactive.)
Neuroscience explains "The Dress"
If your brain didn't predict, sports couldn't exist
Your brain's micro & macro predictions
Your brain runs a simulation of the world
Your mood influences what you see & hear #1
Your mood influences what you see & hear (part 2)
Concepts and Emotion, Part 1 of 3
Concepts and Emotion, Part 2 of 3
Concepts and Emotion, Part 3 of 3

In-depth Talks

Three Lessons About the Brain
Constructing the Mind (or Some Stuff I’ve Learned About the Brain From Studying Emotion)
Constructing Emotion video
Constructing the Mind video
Relational Realism video
Three Lessons about Emotion
Concepts as Tools for Living
Three Lessons About the Brain (or, "Some stuff I've learned from studying emotion")
Relational Realism as a Framework for Studying the Mind
Emotion AI: Separating Facts from Fiction
Mind, Maps and Reality: Finding order in our universe (panel discussion)
Knowledge v. Creativity panel discussion
Allostasis and Interoception in Brain Function
Seven and a half Lessons about the Brain, with Peter Godfrey-Smith
Human Brain and Social Reality
Emotions And Pain: Advances In Neuroscience And Psychology
Neurochemistry (Homegrown Humans)
The Power of Prediction: An Emerging Paradigm for Studying Brain, Body and Mind
The Role of Emotions in Health
How Emotions are Made (University of Waikato, New Zealand)
Variation is the Norm: Population Thinking in the Science of Emotion
When is Speech Violence? (Discussion with Jonathan Haidt)
Can Machines Perceive Emotions? (ACII'19)
Emotions: Facts vs. Fictions
Transcending the Tower: A Panel on Emotions
From Essences to Concepts—A Brain-based Understanding of Emotion
Emotion: Separating Facts from Fiction
From Essences to Concepts—A Brain-based Understanding of Emotion
Why Words Matter: Lessons from Neuroanatomy
The Fundamentals of Emotion: Allostasis, Interoception and Categorization Within a Predicting Brain
From Essences to Predictions: Understanding the Nature of Emotion
Emotion Inside Out: From Cartoon Neuroscience to the Predictive Brain
How the Brain Creates Emotions
Pain in the Brain

Interviews

Dr. Lisa Feldman Barrett on anxiety, depression, and metabolism
Mastering Your Emotions with Lisa Feldman Barrett
Top Psychologist Dr. Lisa Feldman Barrett's Hacks For Managing Emotions
Where emotions come from (and why it matters) Part 1
Where emotions come from (and why it matters) Part 2
Emotions Aren't Hardwired: This is How You Can Architect Your Emotions
The Promise and Peril of Boundless Predictive Machines
How to Understand Emotions
How Emotions are Made - w/ Prof. Lisa Feldman Barrett
How Emotions Are Made
Munk Dialogue with Lisa Feldman Barrett
Why does the brain exist?
Surprising Truths about the Human Brain
Basecamp - Pat Dossett & Lisa Feldman Barrett
How do our brains create emotions?
Stop Being at the Mercy of Your Emotions
Hierarchical Bayesian Brains & the Imposition of Functions, Value & Meaning
Your Brain Is Not What You Think It Is
Lockdown, with Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic
Constructing Our World: The Brain's-Eye View - A Conversation with Lisa Feldman Barrett
What happens in your brain when you do hard things?
Conversation: 7 1/2 Lessons about the Brain
Why Do We Have Brains? and Other Neuroscientific Revelations
Love, Evolution, and the Human Brain
Neuroscientist Reveals Your Brain is Just “Guessing” & Doesn’t Know Anything
Counterintuitive Ideas About How the Brain Works | Lex Fridman Podcast #129
Balancing the Brain Budget
Psychology researcher and neuroscientist Lisa Feldman Barrett discusses where our emotions come from
How to Live a Fulfilled Life series: How Emotions are Made
The Truth about Love According to Neuroscience
Exercise: The Key to "Superaging"
The Secret Behind your Emotions & What it Means 4 You!
Talking About the Brain with Maria Shriver

How Emotions are Made (series)

Cartoon Science
Ask How, Not Where
Core Systems
Making Emotion
Degeneracy
Emotion in the Media
Implications
Simulation
The Cascade

 

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