How To Understand Emotions Dr Lisa Feldman Barrett

In this episode, my guest is Dr. Lisa Feldman Barrett, Ph.D., a distinguished professor of psychology at Northeastern University and a world expert in the science of emotions. She explains what emotions are and how the brain represents and integrates signals from our body and the environment to create our unique emotional states. We discuss the relationship between emotions and language, how the specificity of language impacts emotional processing, the role of facial expressions in emotions and how emotions relate to sleep, movement, nutrition and the building and reinforcement of social bonds. We also share actionable tools to regulate feelings of uncertainty and to better understand the emotional states of others. This episode will interest anyone curious about the neuroscience and psychology underlying emotions and those who seek to better understand themselves and relate to others and the world in richer, more adaptive ways.. . Thank you to our sponsors. AG1: https://drinkag1.com/huberman. Eight Sleep: https://eightsleep.com/huberman. Levels: https://levels.link/huberman . InsideTracker: https://insidetracker.com/huberman . Momentous: https://livemomentous.com/huberman. . Huberman Lab Social u0026 Website. Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/hubermanlab . Threads: https://www.threads.net/@hubermanlab. Twitter: https://twitter.com/hubermanlab . Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/hubermanlab . TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@hubermanlab . LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/andrew-huberman. Website: https://hubermanlab.com . Newsletter: https://hubermanlab.com/neural-network. . Dr. Lisa Feldman Barrett. Website: https://lisafeldmanbarrett.com . Academic Profile: https://cos.northeastern.edu/people/lisa-barrett . “How Emotions are Made: The Secret Life of the Brain”: https://lisafeldmanbarrett.com/books/how-emotions-are-made. “Seven and a Half Lessons About the Brain”: https://lisafeldmanbarrett.com/books/seven-and-a-half-lessons-about-the-brain . TED Talk: https://lisafeldmanbarrett.com/2018/01/13/ted-talk-you-arent-at-the-mercy-of-your-emotions-your-brain-creates-them . X: https://twitter.com/lfeldmanbarrett . TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@professor.lisa . LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/lisa-feldman-barrett. . Articles. Emotional Expressions Reconsidered: Challenges to Inferring Emotion From Human Facial Movements: https://bit.ly/46R3XNq. . Books. “Not by Genes Alone: How Culture Transformed Human Evolution”: https://amzn.to/3QirDEZ. “The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma”: https://amzn.to/3rUQyVO. “An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us”: https://bit.ly/3QhMFU9. “I Contain Multitudes: The Microbes Within Us and a Grander View of Life”: https://amzn.to/3M2CY9B. . Other Resources. Dr. Karl Deisseroth: Understanding u0026 Healing the Mind: https://www.hubermanlab.com/episode/karl-deisseroth-understanding-and-healing-the-mind. Counterintuitive Ideas About How the Brain Work (Lex Fridman Podcast): https://lexfridman.com/lisa-feldman-barrett. Love, Evolution, and the Human Brain (Lex Fridman Podcast):: https://lexfridman.com/lisa-feldman-barrett-2. . Timestamps. 00:00:00 Dr. Lisa Feldman Barrett. 00:03:01 Sponsors: Eight Sleep u0026 Levels . 00:05:46 Core Components of Emotions. 00:10:42 Facial Movement u0026 Interpretation, Emotion. 00:19:33 Facial Expressions u0026 Emotion, Individualization. 00:31:03 Emotion Categories, Culture u0026 Child Development. 00:36:53 Sponsor: AG1. 00:37:50 Legal System, ‘Universal’ Emotions u0026 Caution. 00:41:07 Language Descriptions, Differences u0026 Emotion. 00:48:18 Questions u0026 Assumptions; Language, Emotions u0026 Nervous System. 00:53:40 Brain, Uncertainty u0026 Categories. 01:02:51 Sponsor: InsideTracker. 01:03:57 Brain u0026 Summaries; Emotions as “Multimodal Summaries” . 01:14:45 Emotional Granularity, Library Analogy . 01:19:40 Brain u0026 Compression, Planning . 01:29:04 Labels u0026 Generalization. 01:34:29 Movement, Sensation, Prediction u0026 Learning. 01:42:44 Feelings of Discomfort u0026 Action. 01:50:32 Tool: Feelings of Uncertainty, Emotion, “Affect”. 02:01:18 Tool: Experience Dimensions u0026 Attention; Individualization. 02:08:36 Affect, Allostasis u0026 Body Budget Analogy. 02:15:41 Depression, “Emotional Flu”. 02:20:20 Tool: Positively Shift Affect; Alcohol u0026 Drugs; SSRIs. 02:27:40 Relationships: Savings or Taxes, Kindness. 02:36:50 Zero-Cost Support, Spotify u0026 Apple Reviews, Sponsors, YouTube Feedback, Momentous, Social Media, Neural Network Newsletter. . Title Card Photo Credit: Mike Blabac – https://www.blabacphoto.com. . Disclaimer: https://www.hubermanlab.com/disclaimer