Lisa Feldman Barrett
Distinguished Professor of Psychology, Northeastern University. On 1 show, 1 appearance. The Shows tab opens the full record on each.
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Lisa Feldman Barrett is a neuroscientist and psychologist known for developing the theory of constructed emotion. She is the author of How Emotions Are Made: The Secret Life of the Brain and Seven and a Half Lessons About the Brain.
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18statements
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Everything Lisa Feldman Barrett said on any show that made the record, most notable first. Each card names its show and opens the statement there.
Barrett: No universal physical signature exists for any studied emotion
“In fact, there is no universal physical signature for any emotion that's ever been studied.”
Barrett: Emotion variation is the norm, constructed by situational context
“When it comes to emotion, as with almost everything in, in biology variation is the norm. There isn't one anger. You have a whole population of angers that you can feel, and your brain doesn't conjure them randomly. It conjures them according to your brain's b…”
Barrett: Müller-Lyer visual illusion does not occur without exposure to carpentered environments
“So that illusion doesn't happen to, for some people in the world because they didn't, they weren't exposed to buildings and boxes and corners and things when their brain was finished wiring itself for the To be able to see.”
Barrett: Depression, anxiety, and heart disease stem from body budget deficits
“It translates into depression, anxiety, heart disease, diabetes. They're all metabolic illnesses that come from a debt, running a deficit in your body budget.”
Barrett: No fundamental biological difference exists between mental and physical illness
“There's actually no fundamental difference biologically between a mental illness and a physical illness.”
Barrett: Alzheimer's neurodegeneration is the brain trimming its metabolic budget
“Neurodegeneration that happens in Alzheimer's disease or even normal aging, Is really about trimming your metabolic budget.”
Barrett: The brain uses identical mechanisms for cognition, emotion, and perception
“It doesn't matter whether you're thinking or feeling or seeing or hearing or whatever. It's all the same mechanisms. Your brain is taking in sense data from the body and from the world, and it's using past experiences to make sense of what that means.”
Barrett: The division between an emotional and rational brain is a myth
“You don't have an emotional brain. You don't have a rational brain. There's no part of your brain that's devoted to emotion that isn't used when also in moments when you are being rational.”
Barrett: Scientific consensus is only reliable when scientists hold diverse backgrounds
“If you get a group of scientists who all have different backgrounds and different assumptions, and they come together in consensus, you can be much more sure that what you're observing is very likely to be the case in this circumstance. Right. However, you hav…”
Barrett: Brains Guess Others' Internal States Rather Than Directly Reading Them
“The brain, your brain is automatically making inferences about the internal thoughts and feelings of people based on their actions, but we are blinded To the fact that they're inferences, that they're guesses. We think we're reading people when, in fact, reall…”
Barrett: Emotional granularity improves school performance, stress resilience, and illness recovery
“There's research which shows really clearly that in, in Western cultural contexts like ours, knowing a lot of emotion concepts and a lot of emotion words and being able to Use those to create very nuanced, precise, emotional events actually is really helpful. …”
Barrett: The brain evolved primarily to regulate the body, not to think
“Why did a brain evolve? It didn't evolve for you to think or feel or see. It evolved to regulate your body.”
Barrett: Intense reactions indicate validated or violated beliefs and warrant a pause
“If you love something, you're reading something, or you're hearing something, and, you know, on the news, maybe, or you're watching a YouTube thing, or whatever, and you love it, That, whatever was just said, validates some deeply held belief that you have. An…”
Barrett: Emotional contagion is actually physical nervous system co-regulation
“People call that emotional contagion, but it's actually not emotional. What's happening really is that human nervous systems regulate each other. We're social animals.”
Barrett: Telling others to calm down often serves personal self-regulation
“So a lot of times when people say, don't be sad, don't be angry, really what they're saying is, I don't want to deal with you being angry or sad, and I don't want to feel that way, so I want you to calm down.”
Barrett: Cortisol is primarily a glucose-mobilizing hormone rather than a stress hormone
“People say, oh, that's the stress hormone. No, it's not. It's a hormone that ha it's a hormone that is secreted in what we call stress, but basically glu, what cortisol does is it gets glucose into your blood really fast so that cells can use it really fast.”
Barrett: Breathing is the only deliberate biological control for the nervous system
“Breathing is really the only way that we know of Biologically speaking, that it's the only way that you can kind of deliberately get a handle on your nervous system.”
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 KNOWLEDGE PROJECTLEDGER | Distinguished Professor of Psychology, Northeastern University | 1 | 18 | 60% 3/5 | full record on the Knowledge Project → |