You have more control over your emotions than you think with Lisa Feldman Barrett

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🗓️ 16 January 2024

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Emotions are like opinions — everyone has them. Thanks to the pioneering research of today’s guest, we know that it’s possible to transform our feelings by changing how we think and talk about them. Lisa Feldman Barrett is a psychologist and neuroscientist at Northeastern University and Harvard Medical School. In this episode, Lisa and Adam bust myths about how emotions are constructed in the brain and experienced in the body. They discuss the surprising evidence that language doesn’t just describe emotions — it shapes them. And they examine how managing your emotions is easier than you may realize. Transcripts for ReThinking are available at go.ted.com/RWAGscripts

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0:37.0	Hey everyone, it's Adam Graham. Welcome back to Rethinking, my podcast on the science of what makes us tick. I'm an
0:45.4	organizational psychologist and I'm taking you inside the minds of fascinating people to explore
0:50.0	new thoughts and new ways of thinking.
0:54.0	My guest today is Lisa Feldman Barrett.
0:56.4	She's a psychologist and neuroscientist at Northeastern University and Harvard Medical
1:00.2	School.
1:01.1	She's revolutionized our understanding of emotions.
1:04.4	She's been a Guggenheim fellow and won the American Psychological Association Award for Scientific
1:08.8	Contribution.
1:10.4	Along with being a brilliant researcher, Lisa is a gifted communicator.
1:13.7	She's the author of the books Seven and a Half Lessons About the Brain and
1:18.3	how emotions are made, which was also the subject of her popular TED Talk.
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