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The biggest myths about emotions, debunkedBigThink, May 2023 (#1/4)
An evolutionary history of the human brain, in 7 minutesBigThink, June 12, 2023 (#2/4)
The Neuroscience of TraumaBigThink, June 27, 2023 (#3/4)
Your brain doesn’t detect reality. It creates it.BigThink, July 10, 2023 (#4/4)
How To Be a HumanConvocation speech, SUNY Broome, April 2023
What is a "controlled hallucination”?"What Brain Evolution Reveals About Human Nature," part 1, How To Academy, October 2021
The myth of lizard brain vs rational brain"What Brain Evolution Reveals About Human Nature," part 2, How To Academy, October 2021
Why does our brain make emotions?"What Brain Evolution Reveals About Human Nature," part 3, How To Academy, October 2021
Words Can Change Our Brains and BodiesAn insight from Dr. Barrett's book, "Seven and a Half Lessons About the Brain," December 2020
Your Brain Didn’t Evolve to Think. Here’s What It Does BestAn insight from Dr. Barrett's book, "Seven and a Half Lessons About the Brain," November 2020
You Aren't at the Mercy of your Emotions: Your Brain Creates ThemTED Talk, December 2017
Cinematic Lecture: How Emotions are MadeLearn what emotions are and how they work. April 2020.
How Emotions are MadeExplained in 6 minutes
Cultivating Wisdom: The Power of MoodTEDx talk, Cambridge, MA, May 2018
Can Machines Perceive Emotion?Talks at Google, May 2018
This is Why You Feel the Way You FeelAnimated explanation of Dr. Barrett's theory, January 2019
The Three Big Myths about Emotions, Gender and BrainsWired Live conference, keynote address, 2017
The Science of Being ScaredDr. Barrett's haunted house and the science of fear, October 2016
The Locust MysteryWhat can a plague of locusts teach us about ourselves? NPR Invisibilia, February 2019
How Emotions are Made (30 minute version)Providence Book Festival, April 2019
Emotions: Separating Facts from FictionsSharon Adult Center, April 2019
Musings for the Moment (series)A series of short, personal videos about current topics
Wrong Answers Only quiz show: FearWith comedians Chris Duffy, Alyssa Limperis, Josh Gondelman, and Pooja Reddy, October 2021
Empathable: Our Path to Human Empathy in a World of Machine Learning and AIBoston Museum of Science, March 2022
Shorts
What is social reality?Social reality series, part 1
Social reality is all around usSocial reality series, part 2
We all uphold social reality by our behaviorSocial reality series, part 3
Holidays are social reality - celebrate Fairy DaySocial reality series, part 4
Democracy is social reality, so treat it with careSocial reality series, part 5
Can you detect other people's emotions?"How Emotions are Made" series, part 1
Why is the neuroscience of emotion important?"How Emotions are Made" series, part 2
Boom, boom, clap! Can you hear it? (Your brain is predictive, not reactive.)"How Emotions are Made" series, part 3
Neuroscience explains "The Dress""How Emotions are Made" series, part 4
If your brain didn't predict, sports couldn't exist"How Emotions are Made" series, part 5
Your brain's micro & macro predictions"How Emotions are Made" series, part 6
Your brain runs a simulation of the world"How Emotions are Made" series, part 7
Your mood influences what you see & hear (part 1)"How Emotions are Made" series, part 8
Your mood influences what you see & hear #2"How Emotions are Made" series, part 9
Concepts and Emotion #1"How Emotions are Made" series, part 10
Concepts and Emotion #2"How Emotions are Made" series, part 11
Concepts and Emotion #3"How Emotions are Made" series, part 12
In-depth Talks
Three Lessons About the BrainMcGaugh-Gerard Lecture on Learning and Memory, UC Irvine, October 2024
Constructing the Mind (or Some Stuff I’ve Learned About the Brain From Studying Emotion)Future Thinking Lecture, University of Vienna, June 2024
Constructing EmotionPufendorf Lecture #1/3, Lund University, Sweden, May 2024
Constructing the MindPufendorf Lecture #2/3, Lund University, Sweden, May 2024
Relational RealismPufendorf Lecture #3/3, Lund University, Sweden, May 2024
Three Lessons about EmotionLecture #1/4, Ruhr Award for Philosophy and the Mind Sciences, March 2024
Concepts as Tools for LivingLecture #2/4, Ruhr Award for Philosophy and the Mind Sciences, March 2024
Three Lessons About the Brain (or, "Some stuff I've learned from studying emotion")Lecture #3/4, Ruhr Award for Philosophy and the Mind Sciences, March 2024
Relational Realism as a Framework for Studying the MindLecture #4/4, Ruhr Award for Philosophy and the Mind Sciences, March 2024
Emotion AI: Separating Facts from FictionInstitute for Experiential AI, Northeastern University, January 2024
Mind, Maps and Reality: Finding order in our universeIAI Festival, December 2021
Knowledge v creativity: Should we value one over the other?IAI Festival, December 2021
Allostasis and Interoception in Brain FunctionBrain Connectivity Workshop, May 2021
Seven and a half Lessons about the Brain, with Peter Godfrey-SmithNewburyport Literary Festival, April 2021
Human Brain and Social RealityAmerican Library in Paris, March 2021
Emotions And Pain: Advances In Neuroscience And PsychologyWith Dr. Joe Tatta, March 2021
Neurochemistry (Homegrown Humans)Neurohacker Collective, February 2021
The Power of Prediction: An Emerging Paradigm for Studying Brain, Body and MindX-SPECT International Conference, November 2020
The Role of Emotions in Health"COVID-19 and the role of emotions in global health," The Vaccine Confidence Project, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, November 2020
How Emotions are MadeHonorary Degree lecture, University of Waikato, New Zealand, March 2020
Variation is the Norm: Population Thinking in the Science of EmotionAAAS 2020 McGovern Award lecture, February 2020
When is Speech Violence? (Discussion with Jonathan Haidt)The inaugural Harvard Law School Rappaport Forum, February 2020
Can Machines Perceive Emotions? (ACII'19)Keynote session, Affective Computing and Intelligent Interaction, Cambridge, UK, September 2019
Emotions: Facts vs. FictionsRotman Institute of Philosophy, March 2019
Transcending the Tower: A Panel on EmotionsMyisha Cherry, Lisa Feldman Barrett, and Ryan Enos, Harvard University, December 2018
From Essences to Concepts—A Brain-based Understanding of EmotionContemplative Sciences Center, University of Virginia, October 2018
Emotion: Separating Facts from FictionUniversity of Aberdeen, Anderson Lecture, October 2018
From Essences to Concepts—A Brain-based Understanding of EmotionContemplative Sciences Center, University of Virginia, October 2018
Why Words Matter: Lessons from NeuroanatomyUniversity of Vermont, Burak Lecture, September 2018. (Note: contains strong language.)
The Fundamentals of Emotion: Allostasis, Interoception and Categorization Within a Predicting BrainTrends in Psychology Summit, Harvard Women in Psychology, July 2018
From Essences to Predictions: Understanding the Nature of EmotionEuropean Society for Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, keynote speech, Leiden, The Netherlands, July 2018
Emotion Inside Out: From Cartoon Neuroscience to the Predictive BrainHPL Karolinska Institute psychiatry lecture series, Stockholm, Sweden, March 2018
How the Brain Creates EmotionsMassachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), February 2018
Pain in the BrainCenter for Law, Brain & Behavior, Massachusetts General Hospital, February 2015
Interviews
Diary of a CEO: Anxiety Is A Predictive Error In The BrainDiary of a CEO podcast, April 2025
Mastering Your EmotionsFrom The Green Notebook podcast, April 2025
Top Psychologist Dr. Lisa Feldman Barrett's Hacks For Managing EmotionsSmall Bits Of Happiness podcast, October 2024
Where emotions come from (and why it matters) Part 1Your Parenting Mojo, October 2024
Where emotions come from (and why it matters) Part 2Your Parenting Mojo, October 2024
Emotions Aren't Hardwired: This is How You Can Architect Your EmotionsLive Well Be Well with Sarah Ann Macklin, September 2024
The Promise and Peril of Boundless Predictive MachinesInvisible Machines podcast, February 2024
How to Understand EmotionsAndrew Huberman podcast, October 2023
How Emotions are MadeInterview with Dr. Roi Yozevich, January 2023
How Emotions Are MadeThrough Conversations podcast, December 2022
Munk Dialogue with Lisa Feldman Barrett February 3, 2022
Why does the brain exist?Infinite Loops with Jim O'Shaughnessy, December 2021
Surprising Truths about the Human BrainThe Psychology Podcast with Scott Barry Kaufman, November 2021
Basecamp - Pat Dossett & Lisa Feldman Barrett Hosted by former Navy Seal Pat Dossett, November 2021
How do our brains create emotions?Indeed.com discussion with Chris Hyams, October 2021
Stop Being at the Mercy of Your EmotionsInterview with John Assaraf, August 2021
Hierarchical Bayesian Brains & the Imposition of Functions, Value & MeaningMind-Body Solution podcast with Dr. Tevin Naidu, July 2021
Your Brain Is Not What You Think It IsSpeaking Of Psychology, American Psychological Association, April 2021
Lockdown, with Tomas Chamorro-PremuzicEmotions, bias, and AI, January 2021
Constructing Our World: The Brain's-Eye View - A Conversation with Lisa Feldman BarrettConversation with Howard Burton, founder of Ideas On Film.
What happens in your brain when you do hard things?Spartan Up podcast with Joe De Sena, December 2020
Conversation: 7 1/2 Lessons about the BrainConversation and Q&A with George Hammond, Commonwealth Club, December 2020
Why Do We Have Brains? and Other Neuroscientific RevelationsConversation with New York Times senior editor James Ryerson, Town Hall Seattle, November 2020
Love, Evolution, and the Human Brain | Lex Fridman Podcast #140Round 2 of our conversation, November 2020
Neuroscientist Reveals Your Brain is Just “Guessing” & Doesn’t Know AnythingTom Bilyeu show, November 2020
Counterintuitive Ideas About How the Brain Works | Lex Fridman Podcast #129Conversation with Lex Fridman, October 2020
Balancing the Brain BudgetThe Knowledge Project with Shane Parrish, September 2020
Psychology researcher and neuroscientist Lisa Feldman Barrett discusses where our emotions come fromCuriosity Daily podcast, annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, February 2020
How to Live a Fulfilled Life series: How Emotions are MadeSpirit Pig, October 2018
The Truth about Love According to NeuroscienceIBTimes UK, February 2018
Exercise: The Key to "Superaging"CrossFit, May 2017
The Secret Behind your Emotions & What it Means 4 You!Inspire Nation, March 2017
Talking About the Brain with Maria ShriverAfter appearing on The Today Show, March 31, 2017
How Emotions are Made (series)
1. Cartoon ScienceExplaining the classical view of emotion
2. Ask How, Not WhereAsking better questions about the brain
3. Core SystemsOne brain network can have many functions
4. Making EmotionHow the brain constructs an instance of emotion
5. DegeneracyThe brain takes many paths to the same outcome
6. Emotion in the MediaWhat news outlets often get wrong about the brain
7. ImplicationsPractical implications to emotional intelligence, bullying, and health.
8. SimulationYour brain simulates the outside world
9. The CascadeMicroscopic predictions construct everything you perceive and every action you take
