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Lisa Feldman Barrett

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Neuroscientist, psychologist, and author of "Seven and a Half Lessons About the Brain" (an Amazon "Best Book") and "How Emotions are Made." LisaFeldmanBarrett.com

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Prof. Lisa Feldman Barrett: How Does the Brain Predict the World and Create Emotions? | Wrocław Tech
Prof. Lisa Feldman Barrett: How Does the Brain Predict the World and Create Emotions? | Wrocław Tech YouTube video by Politechnika Wrocławska

Does your #brain exist mainly to think? Or is its most important function something else? "Three Lessons about the Brain" is a talk I delivered at the Wrocław University of Science and Technology in Poland. www.youtube.com/watch?v=4aii...

27.01.2026 16:07 👍 27 🔁 10 💬 3 📌 0
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How Anxiety Is Constructed In The Brain (Ep 327) How is anxiety constructed in the brain? What creates that difficult internal experience? Dr Lisa Feldman Barrett is here to talk about that.

What’s happening beneath the surface when you feel anxious? New podcast episode: "How #Anxiety Is Constructed In The #Brain: Insights from #Neuroscience." On The Anxious Truth podcast. theanxioustruth.com/how-anxiety-...

10.10.2025 11:45 👍 15 🔁 9 💬 1 📌 2

My husband @danieljbarrett.com has written a new book on responsible software engineering! It is full of advice and case studies gathered from over 100 #Google employees.

06.09.2025 20:54 👍 10 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
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Bộ đôi sách về khoa học não bộ của Lisa Feldman Barrett Bộ sách của tác giả Lisa Feldman Barrett mang đến những hiểu biết sâu sắc và mới mẻ về cách bộ não hoạt động và cách con người trải nghiệm thế giới cảm xúc.

Both of my books have recently been published in Vietnamese.

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13.08.2025 20:00 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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"How Emotions are Made: The Secret Life of the Brain" has been published in Lithuanian and Croatian.

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13.08.2025 19:58 👍 10 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
How Emotions Are Made: The Secret Life of the Brain
How Emotions Are Made: The Secret Life of the Brain YouTube video by The Aspen Institute

For a terrific conversation on emotion, mind & brain, thank you to The Aspen Institute! www.youtube.com/watch?v=NM6f...

13.08.2025 19:21 👍 15 🔁 6 💬 0 📌 0
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Seven And A Half Lessons About The Brain Amazon.com: Seven And A Half Lessons About The Brain eBook : Barrett, Lisa Feldman: Kindle Store

"Seven and a Half Lessons About the Brain," Kindle edition, is on sale today for $1.99 (88% off). www.amazon.com/dp/B081TT1V8M/

24.07.2025 14:42 👍 6 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 2

This cinematic lecture was created by filmmaker Van Yang in collaboration with my lab.

07.05.2025 12:25 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
How Your Brain Creates Reality
How Your Brain Creates Reality YouTube video by Lisa Feldman Barrett

New video! Can a gadget really detect your level of stress? When your heart pounds hard in your chest, what does it mean psychologically? It depends. Your everyday experience is constructed from interacting signals inside and outside you, an idea called "relational meaning." youtu.be/mpRoxR81lSU

07.05.2025 12:25 👍 35 🔁 13 💬 3 📌 4

I hope you find the science in this video interesting and useful. Please keep in mind that I am relaying the current state of scientific discovery as I understand it and use it in my own life. I am not a medical doctor (I'm a neuroscientist) and these are not medical recommendations.

18.04.2025 15:35 👍 16 🔁 0 💬 3 📌 0
Anxiety Expert: Anxiety Is Just A Glitch In Your Brain’s Prediction System!
Anxiety Expert: Anxiety Is Just A Glitch In Your Brain’s Prediction System! YouTube video by The Diary Of A CEO

New podcast episode on "Diary of a CEO": learn about your predicting #brain, anxiety, depression, and meaning. www.youtube.com/watch?v=rCtv...

18.04.2025 11:06 👍 35 🔁 11 💬 2 📌 4
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Beyond the Ivory Tower

Are you a scientist, philosopher, or theologian looking to reach a wider audience? If so, there's 3 days left to apply for our next workshop led by NYT Opinion Editor James Ryerson. @lisafeldmanbarrett.bsky.social & I will also discuss how to manage doing this alongside your main research career 1/2

24.02.2025 15:38 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
2024 McGaugh-Gerard Lecture on Learning and Memory Featuring Lisa Feldman Barrett
2024 McGaugh-Gerard Lecture on Learning and Memory Featuring Lisa Feldman Barrett YouTube video by UCI CNLM

"Three Lessons About The #Brain": a recent talk at UC Irvine with one of the best audiences I've ever had (they were super engaged)! Presented as the 2024 McGaugh-Gerard Lecture on #Learning and #Memory. @ucirvine.bsky.social www.youtube.com/watch?v=MKYX...

16.01.2025 14:43 👍 37 🔁 8 💬 1 📌 1
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How Emotions Are Made and Modernism, Art, Therapy | The Brooklyn Rail Suzanne Hudson and Tanya Sheehan have assembled a series of essays by a diverse collection of authors that situate art therapy within a much more complex postmodern perspective, threading it through i...

An interesting relationship between the theory of constructed emotion and art therapy. #ArtTherapy brooklynrail.org/2024/12/book...

15.01.2025 14:58 👍 22 🔁 4 💬 2 📌 0

We really need a word for “the set of facial muscle movements that the classical view of emotion treats as a coordinated unit.” I use facial "configuration" instead of "expression," and emotion "perception" instead of "recognition" or "detection." These more neutral terms carry fewer assumptions.

09.01.2025 19:12 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 2 📌 0

What are emotions? Find out in David Eagleman's new podcast episode. ‬‪@davideagleman.bsky.social eagleman.com/podcast/86

08.01.2025 01:47 👍 26 🔁 4 💬 2 📌 1
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The myth of AI emotion recognition: Science or sales pitch? | CTech Bold claims from Google and WaveForms AI reignite ethical debates, but the real question is whether the technology works at all.

The myth of #AI #emotion recognition: Science or sales pitch? www.calcalistech.com/ctechnews/ar...

15.12.2024 12:40 👍 35 🔁 15 💬 1 📌 3
Lisa Feldman Barrett on Resiliance
Lisa Feldman Barrett on Resiliance YouTube video by Peter Singer

How does your brain manage your body to keep you functioning at your best—even when you're under pressure? On the "Lives Well Lived" podcast at open.spotify.com/episode/5XHv....

09.12.2024 11:35 👍 25 🔁 6 💬 1 📌 1
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Of Mice and Men: Natural Kinds of Emotions in the Mammalian Brain? A Response to Panksepp and Izard For almost 5 decades, the scientific study of emotion has been guided by the assumption that categories such as anger, sadness, and fear cut nature at its joints. Barrett (2006a) provided a comprehens...

That's right. If you're interested, here's an older research paper that directly challenged that view. pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...

06.12.2024 02:01 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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Global Praise For India’s One Nation-One Subscription Initiative: ‘India Is Doing Things Right’ India's One Nation-One Subscription (ONOS) plan, launching in January 2025, will provide 18 million students, researchers, and faculty free access to nearly 13,000 journals from major publishers, enha...

The democratization of #science: India "will grant 18 million students, researchers, and faculty members free access to nearly 13,000 journals."
www.newsx.com/world/global...

04.12.2024 14:00 👍 22 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
Lisa makes an apple pie

Lisa makes an apple pie

Seven pies: two pumpkin, two pecan, and three apple

Seven pies: two pumpkin, two pecan, and three apple

The Wednesday before Thanksgiving is "Pie Day" in our household: 12 pies baked in 12 hours. Some are for Thursday's dinner and others are for our neighbors and friends. To all who celebrate Thanksgiving, my family and I wish a peaceful and delicious holiday.

28.11.2024 12:20 👍 45 🔁 0 💬 4 📌 0
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This Neuroscientist’s Parenting Strategy Sounds Exactly Like A 'Bluey' Episode Need proof that 'Bluey' is every bit as genius as you've suspected? Learn how a neuroscientist's parenting strategy was basically modeled by Bandit Heeler.

Toddler having tantrums? Maybe it's the Cranky Fairy. www.scarymommy.com/entertainmen...

26.11.2024 01:13 👍 28 🔁 5 💬 2 📌 0
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Brain Scientist: How Pixar's 'Inside Out' Gets One Thing Deeply Wrong "Inside Out" is an entertaining film but you shouldn't conclude from it that your brain has distinct circuits or regions for certain emotions, a neuroscientist argues: "The inner workings of emotions ...

For the original "Inside Out" in 2015, I wrote an op-ed that imagines how it might have been told with a more scientifically sound theory of emotion. www.wbur.org/news/2015/07...

21.11.2024 14:34 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Top Psychologist Dr. Lisa Feldman Barrett's Hacks For Managing Emotions
Top Psychologist Dr. Lisa Feldman Barrett's Hacks For Managing Emotions YouTube video by Small Bits of Happiness

Two enterprising teens interviewed me for their podcast "Hack Your Happiness." Topics: managing #emotions and how your #brain creates your reality. They call their organization "Small Bits of Happiness," smallbitsofhappiness.com.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=R7zF...

20.11.2024 02:51 👍 31 🔁 5 💬 0 📌 1
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Anticipation in sports: why do some athletes seem to be one step ahead of their opponents? Some athletes seem to have an ability to predict what’s going to happen in their sports but anticipation is an attribute anyone can develop.

#Sports and the predicting #brain. theconversation.com/anticipation...

19.11.2024 14:13 👍 27 🔁 8 💬 2 📌 1
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Welcome | Lisa Feldman Barrett Hello — I’m Lisa Feldman Barrett. As a neuroscientist and psychologist, I’ve been studying the brain and mind for 30 years. If you’re new to my work, here is a quick path to learn about it.

First post. Trying out a potential new home.🙂
lisafeldmanbarrett.com/welcome/

19.11.2024 14:06 👍 76 🔁 10 💬 14 📌 1