Lisa Feldman Barrett

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Psychologist · United States Of America · Female

Lisa Feldman Barrett is a University Distinguished Professor of Psychology at Northeastern University, where she focuses on the study of emotion. She is a director of the Interdisciplinary Affective Science Laboratory. Along with James Russell, she is the founding editor-in-chief of the journal Emotion Review. 2Education Barrett was born in Toronto, Ontario, Canada in 1963. Barrett obtained her Bachelor of Science in Psychology with Honors at the University of Toronto. Barrett completed a Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology at the University of Waterloo, in Ontario, Canada, and a Clinical Internship at the University of Manitoba Medical School. During her graduate training, Barrett developed the initial insights for her current theory of constructed emotion. 2Professional history At the beginning of her career, Dr. Barrett's research focused on the structure of affect, having developed experience-sampling methods and open-source software to study emotional experience. D

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From “How Emotions Are Made”

“Social reality is not just about words—it gets under your skin. If you perceive the same baked good as a decadent 'cupcake' or a healthful 'muffin,' research suggests that your body metabolizes it differently. Likewise, the words and concepts of your culture help to shape your brain wiring and your…”

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“An emotion is your brain’s creation of what your bodily sensations mean, in relation to what is going on around you in the world.”

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“Simulations are your brain’s guesses of what’s happening in the world. In every waking moment, you’re faced with ambiguous, noisy information from your eyes, ears, nose, and other sensory organs. Your brain uses your past experiences to construct a hypothesis—the simulation—and compares it to the…”

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“The word 'smile' doesn’t even exist in Latin or Ancient Greek. Smiling was an invention of the Middle Ages, and broad, toothy-mouthed smiles (with crinkling at the eyes, named the Duchenne smile by Ekman) became popular only in the eighteenth century as dentistry became more accessible and…”

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“Numerous experiments showed that people feel depressed when they fail to live up to their own ideals, but when they fall short of a standard set by others, they feel anxious.”

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Lisa Feldman Barrett

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