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Lisa Feldman Barrett

Lisa Feldman Barrett is an American psychologist and neuroscientist whose work focuses on emotion, the brain, and predictive processing. She is best known for the theory of constructed emotion and books including How Emotions Are Made and Seven and a Half Lessons About the Brain, which broadened public and academic debate on affective science.

Biografia e Percorso dell'Autore

Lisa Feldman Barrett’s career took shape through a series of intellectual reversals. A first-generation university student from a family of limited means, she completed her undergraduate degree at the University of Toronto in 1986, majoring in psychology with minors in linguistics and anthropology while working multiple jobs, including in a public library and psychology labs, to pay tuition. She initially expected to go to medical school, but a mentor’s push toward graduate study redirected her path. At the University of Waterloo, where she trained in clinical psychology, early failures to replicate published findings became a turning point: instead of discouraging her, they helped steer her from therapy toward research. She completed her PhD in 1991 and a clinical internship at the University of Manitoba in 1992. ((https://www.affective-science.org/lisa-feldman-barrett.shtml?utm_source=openai))

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Your brain is predictive, not reactive
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This belief is a key barrier to scientific understanding and progress
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You sense with your brain
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The power of words is not a metaphor; it’s in our brain wiring
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Words are tools for regulating bodies
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A single brain plan creates many kinds of minds
-Variation is the stuff of life
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Mood is not emotion – it is always with you, even when you’re not emotional
-The big idea: do animals have emotions?
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You are an architect of your own experience
-Are you a spectator to reality? Or are you its creator?
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A core task of every brain is to reduce uncertainty so it, and the rest of the body, can operate in a metabolically efficient manner
-The ‘Fight or Flight’ Idea Misses the Beauty of What the Brain Really Does
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We have more control over reality than we might think
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