Lisa Feldman Barrett
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Lisa Feldman Barrett is Distinguished Professor of Psychology at Northeastern University. Her research focuses on the nature of emotion. She has also crafted a psychological construction approach to understanding how the brain creates the mind. For a detailed list of current publications, please visit: http://www.affective-science.org
Primary Interests:
- Emotion, Mood, Affect
- Gender Psychology
- Neuroscience, Psychophysiology
- Personality, Individual Differences
- Research Methods, Assessment
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You Aren't at the Mercy of Your Emotions -- Your Brain Creates Them
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18:29 You Aren't at the Mercy of Your Emotions -- Your Brain Creates Them
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2:20:17 Counterintuitive Ideas About How the Brain Works
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21:30 Cultivating Wisdom: The Power Of Mood
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1:50:23 Your Brain Is Just "Guessing" and Doesn't Know Anything
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1:17:38 How the Brain Creates Emotions
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1:13:55 Emotions: Separating Fact from Fiction
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1:30:37 Emotions: Separating Facts From Fictions
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17:33 The Three Big Myths About Emotions, Gender, and Brains
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1:17:17 Can Machines Perceive Emotion?
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33:34 Interoception | Cultivating Your Emotions
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1:29:17 Surprising Truths About the Human Brain
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2:03 How Does Gossip Influence Perception?
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1:08:59 Why Do We Have Brains? and Other Neuroscientific Revelations
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28:59 Our Brains on Totalitarianism
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3:19 Cognitive Biases
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Books:
- Barrett, L. F., Lewis, M., & Haviland-Jones, J. M. (Eds.). (2016). Handbook of emotions (4th ed.). New York: Guilford.
- Feldman-Barrett, L., Niedenthal, P. M., & Winkielman, P. (Eds.). (2007). Emotion and consciousness. New York: Guilford Press.
- Mesquita, B., Barrett, L. F., & Smith, E. (Eds.). (2010). The mind in context. New York: Guilford.
Journal Articles:
- Barrett, L. F. (2009). The future of psychology: Connecting mind to brain. Perspectives in Psychological Science, 4, 326-339.
- Barrett, L. F. (2009). Variety is the spice of life: A psychological construction approach to understanding variability in emotion. Cognition and Emotion, 23, 1284-1306.
- Barrett, L. F. (2006). Are emotions natural kinds? Perspectives on Psychological Science, 1, 28-58.
- Barrett, L. F. (2006). Solving the emotion paradox: Categorization and the experience of emotion. Personality and Social Psychology Review, 10, 20-46.
- Barrett, L. F. (2004). Feelings or words? Understanding the content in self-report ratings of experienced emotion. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 87, 266-281.
- Barrett, L. F., & Bar, M. (2009). See it with feeling: Affective predictions during object perception. Royal Society Phil Trans B, 364, 1325-1334.
- Barrett, L. F., Lindquist, K., Bliss-Moreau, E., Duncan, S., Gendron, M., Mize, J., & Brennan, L. (2007). Of mice and men: Natural kinds of emotions in the mammalian brain? A Response to Panksepp and Izard. Perspectives on Psychological Science, 2, 297-312.
- Barrett, L. F., Lindquist, K., & Gendron, M. (2007). Language as context for the perception of emotion. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 11, 327-332.
- Barrett, L. F., Mesquita, B., & Gendron, M. (in press). Emotion perception in context. Current Directions in Psychological Science.
- Barrett, L. F., Mesquita, B., Ochsner, K. N., & Gross, J. J. (2007). The experience of emotion. Annual Review of Psychology, 58, 373-403.
- Barrett, L. F., Tugade, M. M., & Engle, R. W. (2004). Individual differences in working memory capacity and dual-process theories of the mind. Psychological Bulletin, 130, 553-573.
- Bickart, K. C., Wright, C. I., Dautoff, R. J., Dickerson, B. C., Barrett, L. F. (in press). Amygdala volume and social network size in humans. Nature Neuroscience.
- Duncan, S., & Barrett, L. F. (2007). Affect is a form of cognition: A neurobiological analysis. Cognition and Emotion, 21, 1184-1211.
- Kober, H., Barrett, L. F., Joseph, J., Bliss-Moreau, E., Lindquist, K. A., & Wager, T. D. (2008). Functional networks and cortical-subcortical interactions in emotion: A meta-analysis of neuroimaging studies. Neuroimage, 42, 998-1031.
- Lindquist, K. A., Wager, T. D., Kober, H., Bliss-Moreau, E., & Barrett, L. F. (in press). The brain basis of emotion: A meta-analytic review. Behavioral and Brain Sciences.
- Moriguchi, Y., Negreira, A., Weierich, M., Dautoff, R., Dickerson, B. C., Wright, C. I., & Barrett, L. F. (in press). Differential hemodynamic response in affective circuitry with aging: An fMRI study of novelty, valence, and arousal. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience.
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Courses Taught:
- A Brain Evolution Approach to Psychology
- Cognitive Neuroscience of Emotion
- Emotion Proseminar
- The Psychological Construction of the Mind
- The Social Psychology of Emotion
Lisa Feldman Barrett
Department of Psychology
Northeastern University
253 Nightingale Hall
Boston, Massachusetts 02115
United States of America
- Phone: (617) 373-2044
- Fax: (617) 373-8714
