Mind & Life Podcast: Lisa Feldman Barrett – Your Emotions Aren't What You Think

This episode features psychologist, neuroscientist, and emotion researcher Lisa Feldman Barrett. She and Wendy discuss a broad range of topics about the mind, including:

her unexpected path into studying emotions;
how our brains construct and predict our reality;
the brain's essential role in regulating the body;
emotions as interpretations of our bodily state;
how our past shapes and filters our present experience;
the difference between affective feelings (mood) and emotions;
our capacity to influence our own emotions;
deconstructing our experience through mindfulness;
how to improve our emotional lives;
connections with Buddhist theories of mind;
implications for our understanding of the self;
how we regulate not only our own, but others' nervous systems;
and how stress and modernity might lead to clinging to entrenched views.

Original release date: January 15, 2021
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