How to Understand Emotions | Dr. Lisa Feldman Barrett

In this episode, my guest is Dr. Lisa Feldman Barrett, Ph.D., a
Distinguished Professor of Psychology at Northeastern University
who is a world expert in the science of emotions. She explains what
emotions are and how the brain represents and integrates signals
from our body and the environment around us to create our unique
emotional states. We discuss the relationship between emotions and
language, how our specificity of language impacts our emotional
processing, the role of facial expressions in emotions, and how
emotions relate to sleep, movement, nutrition and the building and
reinforcement of social bonds. We also discuss actionable tools for
how to regulate feelings of uncertainty and tools to better
understand the emotional states of others. This episode ought to be
of interest to anyone curious about the neuroscience and psychology
underlying emotions and for those who seek to better understand
themselves and relate to others and the world in richer, more
adaptive ways. For show notes, including referenced articles and
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(00:05:46) Core Components of Emotions (00:10:42) Facial Movement
& Interpretation, Emotion (00:19:33) Facial Expressions &
Emotion, Individualization (00:31:03) Emotion Categories, Culture
& Child Development (00:37:10) Sponsor: AG1 (00:37:50) Legal
System, ‘Universal’ Emotions & Caution (00:41:07) Language
Descriptions, Differences & Emotion (00:48:18) Questions &
Assumptions; Language, Emotions & Nervous System (00:53:40)
Brain, Uncertainty & Categories (01:03:57) Brain &
Summaries; Emotions as “Multimodal Summaries” (01:14:45) Emotional
Granularity, Library Analogy (01:19:40) Brain & Compression,
Planning (01:29:04) Labels & Generalization (01:34:29)
Movement, Sensation, Prediction & Learning (01:42:44) Feelings
of Discomfort & Action (01:50:32) Tool: Feelings of
Uncertainty, Emotion, “Affect” (02:01:18) Tool: Experience
Dimensions & Attention; Individualization (02:08:36) Affect,
Allostasis & Body Budget Analogy (02:15:41) Depression,
“Emotional Flu” (02:20:20) Tool: Positively Shift Affect; Alcohol
& Drugs; SSRIs (02:27:40) Relationships: Savings or Taxes,
Kindness (02:36:50) Zero-Cost Support, Spotify & Apple Reviews,
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