BS 135 Lisa Barrett on How Emotions Are Made

Brain Science with Ginger Campbell, MD: Neuroscience for Everyone

Ginger Campbell, MD

Life Sciences, Health & Fitness, Neuroscience, Medicine, Brain, Science

4.8 • 896 Ratings

🗓️ 31 July 2017

⏱️ 90 minutes

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Summary

This episode features Dr. Lisa Feldman Barrett, author of How Emotions Are Made. We discuss the evidence AGAINST the classical theory that emotions are universal and hardwired, as well as her new theory of Constructed Emotions. This new theory has significant implications for how we understand ourselves and others.

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0:00.0	Welcome to brain science,
0:04.7	brain science, the show that explores how recent discoveries in
0:08.5	neuroscience are helping unravel the mystery of how our brains make us
0:12.4	human. I am your host Dr. Ginger Campbell and this is episode 135.
0:18.0	Today's episode is an interview with Dr. Lisa Feldman Barrett, author of How Emotions are Made, The New Science of the Mind and
0:27.0	Brain. In a way, this is a return to the show's roots, since I first talked about emotions way back in episode 11 which first aired in early 2007.
0:39.0	But this episode also represents a special challenge for me because as I read how emotions are made,
0:46.7	I realized that I needed to update my knowledge in this area and let go of several ideas that have had a strong intuitive appeal
0:56.4	which is to say it's time to give up some ideas that feel right but that don't stand up to the current evidence.
1:07.3	For the sake of new listeners, I'm going to play the interview first and then I will follow up with my usual habit of summarizing the
1:15.6	key ideas.
1:16.6	Then I'll get into the details of how Dr Barrett's work relates to previous episodes and its implications for our overall
1:24.7	understanding of how our brains make us human. As always, you can find complete
1:30.8	show notes and episode transcripts at brainscience podcast.com and you can
1:35.5	send me email at brain science podcast at gmail.com.
1:40.0	My guest today is Lisa Feldman Barrett, author of how emotions are made, the secret life of the brain.
1:51.0	Lisa, it's great to have you on brain science today. Thank you so much for having
1:55.8	me on your show. So I always like to ask my guest to talk a little bit about themselves before we start I really like for my
2:05.0	listeners to get a feel for scientists as people. So could you tell us a little bit
2:10.7	about yourself and especially how it was that you ended up going into
2:14.2	neuroscience?
2:15.2	Sure.
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