Lisa Feldman Barrett
@lisafeldmanbarrett.com
Neuroscientist, psychologist, and author of "Seven and a Half Lessons About the Brain" (an Amazon "Best Book") and "How Emotions are Made." LisaFeldmanBarrett.com
This cinematic lecture was created by filmmaker Van Yang in collaboration with my lab.
May 7, 2025 at 12:25 PM
This cinematic lecture was created by filmmaker Van Yang in collaboration with my lab.
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.
April 18, 2025 at 3:35 PM
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.
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.
January 9, 2025 at 7:12 PM
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.
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...
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...
pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
December 6, 2024 at 2:01 AM
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...
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...
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 ...
www.wbur.org
November 21, 2024 at 2:34 PM
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...