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EPISODE · May 30, 2023 · 49 MIN

54: Emotions Are Not What You Think (with Lisa Feldman Barrett )

from On Wisdom · host Charles Cassidy and Igor Grossmann

What actually are “emotions” and how are they made? Lisa Feldman Barrett joins Igor and Charles to discuss what we’ve got right and what we’ve got completely wrong about the nature of our emotional lives. Igor grapples with the idea that red apples aren’t necessarily red, Lisa shares that anger doesn’t always look like anger, and Charles learns that a racing heartbeat can be interpreted in fundamentally different ways. Welcome to Episode 54.Special Guest: Lisa Feldman Barrett.

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What actually are “emotions” and how are they made? Lisa Feldman Barrett joins Igor and Charles to discuss what we’ve got right and what we’ve got completely wrong about the nature of our emotional lives. Igor grapples with the idea that red apples aren’t necessarily red, Lisa shares that anger doesn’t always look like anger, and Charles learns that a racing heartbeat can be interpreted in fundamentally different ways. Welcome to Episode 54. Special Guest: Lisa Feldman Barrett. Links: Lisa Feldman Barrett's Website (Public) Interdisciplinary Affective Science Laboratory You Aren't at The Mercy of Your Emotions - Your Brain Creates Them | TED Talk (Jan 2018) Cultivating Wisdom: The Power Of Mood | TED Talk (May 2018) The theory of constructed emotion: An active inference account of interoception and categorization - Barrett, L. F. (2017) How Emotions Are Made: The Secret Life of the Brain | Book (2017) Seven and a Half Lessons About the Brain | Book (2020) Context Reconsidered: Complex Signal Ensembles, Relational Meaning, and Population Thinking in Psychological Science - Lisa Feldman Barrett (2022)

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