Mindscape 123 | Lisa Feldman Barrett on Emotions, Actions, and the Brain

Emotions are at the same time utterly central to who we are - where would we be without them? - and also seemingly peripheral to the “real” work our brains do, understanding the world and acting within it. Why do we have emotions, anyway? Are they hardwired into the brain? Lisa Feldman Barrett is one of the world’s leading experts in the psychology of emotions, and she emphasizes that they are more constructed and less hard-wired than you might think. How we feel and express emotions can vary from culture to culture or even person to person. It’s better to think of emotions of a link between affective response and our behaviors.
Lisa Feldman Barrett received her Ph.D. in psychology from the University of Waterloo. She is currently the University Distinguished Professor of Psychology and Director of the Interdisciplinary Affective Science Laboratory at Northeastern University. She also holds research appointments at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH)/Harvard Medical School in the Psychiatric Neuroimaging Program and at the Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging in the Department of Radiology. Among her many honors are the Award for Distinguished Service in Psychological Science from the American Psychological Association, the Mentor Award for Lifetime Achievement from the Association for Psychological Science, and a Guggenheim Fellowship. She is the author of How Emotions Are Made: The Secret Life of the Brain, and her latest book is Seven and a Half Lessons About the Brain.
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27:30 “The point really is: ... the brain is trapped in a dark, silent box” - “... the way you know something is important: every time someone discovers it, they give it a new name”

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Amazing. Great conversation and perspective on the brain. I would ask why Western Civ, especially the Protestant version of it, dislikes emotion so much.

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Thanks for this interesting episode!

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You should make a video version too. Thank you for the podcast.

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Nice podcast. It reminds me of what some was talking about 20-30+ years ago. Optimism and visions was "destroyed" by "wars". Got the vibe of some hopeful welcome. My brain may be telling me a wanted illusion.

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Absolutely love episodes like these! One thing; is there anything you can do about the static noise in the background? I love to throw you up on my surround sound (might as well use it if I have it, i guess haha) and it often gets pretty loud. Obviously the content is free and you're doing this out of the very limited time you already have, so it is only a suggestion :) Keep it up!!!!!

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Interesting! Inspiring!

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Maybe the predictive process helps explain hallucinations? Since the human mind doesn't deal with reality directly anyway, hallucinations have room to corrupt the predictive process.

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Such a great interview. Much more enjoyable than Lex's verbal diaria he calls a podcast.

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What about communication before the development of language. It was most likely very complex use of facial expression and gestures. How can use use words to explain the complexity of this form of communicating and understanding the world?

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Interesting stuff. Yes I also wonder what kind of brains that is running the world these days. Brains that doesn't ask questions? Could it be stress that make that kind of situation?

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This episode was incredibly insightful.

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when are you going to start with video format?

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curious how this relates to dementia.

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Did she say something is wrong with brains that aren't neuotypical incl neurodiverse

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And you're in jazz club and someone says bird

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Dr Feldman Barrett is an amazing and important neuroscientist that is truly a treasure. Sean Carrol introduction was shameful. He mischaracterized what she’s shared in the book and spoke like he knew more than she did. Decades of research and he suggests that her points are merely an opinion or point of view - really? He sounds foolish trying to act like an expert on a subject while interviewing the foremost authority on that subject.

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The guest communicates in an annoyingly self-promotional way, as opposed to the manner a relaxed scholar. That may be a manner she picked up to compete professionally, I don't know. It's a bit grating. Some concepts are good. But meh...

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She's a brain scientist maybe that's why she's perceived like that. I think she knows better than us how the brain works, it's her job, she does human brain research in her lab on how the brain works. I'm not saying she's 100th right but if you really listen most of what she says makes sense. Of course she is speaking about her book because it's kind of revolutionary on how we thought about the emotions and the brain

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