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Lisa Feldman Barrett

@lisafeldmanbarrett.com
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Neuroscientist, psychologist, and author of "Seven and a Half Lessons About the Brain" (an Amazon "Best Book") and "How Emotions are Made." LisaFeldmanBarrett.com

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Lisa Feldman Barrett @lisafeldmanbarrett.com · 26/09/2026
I’m thrilled to share that we have a new paper out, led by the brilliant @katiehoemann.bsky.social and Vanessa LoBue. In this paper, we analyze - for the first time ever - the facial movements that infants see in their everyday interactions with others. 1/3
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Lisa Feldman Barrett @lisafeldmanbarrett.com · 25/08/2026
How does your #brain turn light waves, air pressure, and racing hearts into sights, sounds, and emotions? By generating categories. @quantamagazine.org explains our recent @nature.com paper and why it matters. With @earlkmiller.bsky.social. www.quantamagazine.org/a-new-framew...
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A New Framework for How the Brain Compresses Our Noisy World | Quanta Magazine
An updated view of categorization reflects the modern understanding that the nervous system is more of a prediction engine than a filing cabinet.
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Lisa Feldman Barrett @lisafeldmanbarrett.com · 02/05/2026
How does your brain know that a cat is a cat? Your brain is a category generator. A conversation with @earlkmiller.bsky.social about our new paper in Nature Reviews: Neuroscience. In Nautilus @nautil.us (thanks Kristen French!). nautil.us/how-does-you... #neuroscience @nature.com
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How Does Your Brain Know a Cat Is a Cat?
How Does Your Brain Know a Cat Is a Cat?: A conversation with renowned neuroscientists Lisa Feldman Barrett and Earl Miller about categories, “folk psychology,” beginner’s mind, and thinking fast and ...
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Lisa Feldman Barrett @lisafeldmanbarrett.com · 27/01/2026
Does your #brain exist mainly to think? Or is its most important function something else? "Three Lessons about the Brain" is a talk I delivered at the Wrocław University of Science and Technology in Poland. www.youtube.com/watch?v=4aii...
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Prof. Lisa Feldman Barrett: How Does the Brain Predict the World and Create Emotions? | Wrocław Tech
YouTube video by Politechnika Wrocławska
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Lisa Feldman Barrett @lisafeldmanbarrett.com · 10/10/2025
What’s happening beneath the surface when you feel anxious? New podcast episode: "How #Anxiety Is Constructed In The #Brain: Insights from #Neuroscience." On The Anxious Truth podcast. theanxioustruth.com/how-anxiety-...
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How Anxiety Is Constructed In The Brain (Ep 327)
How is anxiety constructed in the brain? What creates that difficult internal experience? Dr Lisa Feldman Barrett is here to talk about that.
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Lisa Feldman Barrett @lisafeldmanbarrett.com · 06/09/2025
My husband @danieljbarrett.com has written a new book on responsible software engineering! It is full of advice and case studies gathered from over 100 #Google employees.
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Lisa Feldman Barrett @lisafeldmanbarrett.com · 13/08/2025
Both of my books have recently been published in Vietnamese. bookhunterlyceum.org/san-pham/bo-...
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Bộ đôi sách về khoa học não bộ của Lisa Feldman Barrett
Bộ sách của tác giả Lisa Feldman Barrett mang đến những hiểu biết sâu sắc và mới mẻ về cách bộ não hoạt động và cách con người trải nghiệm thế giới cảm xúc.
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Lisa Feldman Barrett @lisafeldmanbarrett.com · 13/08/2025
"How Emotions are Made: The Secret Life of the Brain" has been published in Lithuanian and Croatian. liutaineavys.lt/knyga/kaip-g... petrineknjige.hr/product/kako...
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Lisa Feldman Barrett @lisafeldmanbarrett.com · 13/08/2025
For a terrific conversation on emotion, mind & brain, thank you to The Aspen Institute! www.youtube.com/watch?v=NM6f...
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How Emotions Are Made: The Secret Life of the Brain
YouTube video by The Aspen Institute
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Lisa Feldman Barrett @lisafeldmanbarrett.com · 24/07/2025
"Seven and a Half Lessons About the Brain," Kindle edition, is on sale today for $1.99 (88% off). www.amazon.com/dp/B081TT1V8M/
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Seven And A Half Lessons About The Brain
Amazon.com: Seven And A Half Lessons About The Brain eBook : Barrett, Lisa Feldman: Kindle Store
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Lisa Feldman Barrett @lisafeldmanbarrett.com · 07/05/2025
New video! Can a gadget really detect your level of stress? When your heart pounds hard in your chest, what does it mean psychologically? It depends. Your everyday experience is constructed from interacting signals inside and outside you, an idea called "relational meaning." youtu.be/mpRoxR81lSU
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How Your Brain Creates Reality
YouTube video by Lisa Feldman Barrett
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Lisa Feldman Barrett @lisafeldmanbarrett.com · 18/04/2025
New podcast episode on "Diary of a CEO": learn about your predicting #brain, anxiety, depression, and meaning. www.youtube.com/watch?v=rCtv...
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Anxiety Expert: Anxiety Is Just A Glitch In Your Brain’s Prediction System!
YouTube video by The Diary Of A CEO
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David DeSteno @daviddesteno.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
Are you a scientist, philosopher, or theologian looking to reach a wider audience? If so, there's 3 days left to apply for our next workshop led by NYT Opinion Editor James Ryerson. @lisafeldmanbarrett.bsky.social & I will also discuss how to manage doing this alongside your main research career 1/2
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Beyond the Ivory Tower
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Lisa Feldman Barrett @lisafeldmanbarrett.com · 16/01/2025
"Three Lessons About The #Brain": a recent talk at UC Irvine with one of the best audiences I've ever had (they were super engaged)! Presented as the 2024 McGaugh-Gerard Lecture on #Learning and #Memory. @ucirvine.bsky.social www.youtube.com/watch?v=MKYX...
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2024 McGaugh-Gerard Lecture on Learning and Memory Featuring Lisa Feldman Barrett
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Lisa Feldman Barrett @lisafeldmanbarrett.com · 15/01/2025
An interesting relationship between the theory of constructed emotion and art therapy. #ArtTherapy brooklynrail.org/2024/12/book...
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How Emotions Are Made and Modernism, Art, Therapy | The Brooklyn Rail
Suzanne Hudson and Tanya Sheehan have assembled a series of essays by a diverse collection of authors that situate art therapy within a much more complex postmodern perspective, threading it through i...
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Lisa Feldman Barrett @lisafeldmanbarrett.com · 08/01/2025
What are emotions? Find out in David Eagleman's new podcast episode. ‬‪@davideagleman.bsky.social eagleman.com/podcast/86
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What are emotions?
Are emotions something that happen to you, or are they bodily signals we interpret? Does everyone show emotions in the same way — that is, are there particular markers of the face or the body…
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Lisa Feldman Barrett @lisafeldmanbarrett.com · 15/12/2024
The myth of #AI #emotion recognition: Science or sales pitch? www.calcalistech.com/ctechnews/ar...
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The myth of AI emotion recognition: Science or sales pitch? | CTech
Bold claims from Google and WaveForms AI reignite ethical debates, but the real question is whether the technology works at all.
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Lisa Feldman Barrett @lisafeldmanbarrett.com · 09/12/2024
How does your brain manage your body to keep you functioning at your best—even when you're under pressure? On the "Lives Well Lived" podcast at open.spotify.com/episode/5XHv....
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Lisa Feldman Barrett on Resiliance
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Lisa Feldman Barrett @lisafeldmanbarrett.com · 04/12/2024
The democratization of #science: India "will grant 18 million students, researchers, and faculty members free access to nearly 13,000 journals." www.newsx.com/world/global...
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Global Praise For India’s One Nation-One Subscription Initiative: ‘India Is Doing Things Right’
India's One Nation-One Subscription (ONOS) plan, launching in January 2025, will provide 18 million students, researchers, and faculty free access to nearly 13,000 journals from major publishers, enha...
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Lisa Feldman Barrett @lisafeldmanbarrett.com · 28/11/2024
The Wednesday before Thanksgiving is "Pie Day" in our household: 12 pies baked in 12 hours. Some are for Thursday's dinner and others are for our neighbors and friends. To all who celebrate Thanksgiving, my family and I wish a peaceful and delicious holiday.
Lisa makes an apple pieSeven pies: two pumpkin, two pecan, and three apple
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Lisa Feldman Barrett @lisafeldmanbarrett.com · 26/11/2024
Toddler having tantrums? Maybe it's the Cranky Fairy. www.scarymommy.com/entertainmen...
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This Neuroscientist’s Parenting Strategy Sounds Exactly Like A 'Bluey' Episode
Need proof that 'Bluey' is every bit as genius as you've suspected? Learn how a neuroscientist's parenting strategy was basically modeled by Bandit Heeler.
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Lisa Feldman Barrett @lisafeldmanbarrett.com · 20/11/2024
Two enterprising teens interviewed me for their podcast "Hack Your Happiness." Topics: managing #emotions and how your #brain creates your reality. They call their organization "Small Bits of Happiness," smallbitsofhappiness.com. www.youtube.com/watch?v=R7zF...
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Top Psychologist Dr. Lisa Feldman Barrett's Hacks For Managing Emotions
YouTube video by Small Bits of Happiness
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Lisa Feldman Barrett @lisafeldmanbarrett.com · 19/11/2024
#Sports and the predicting #brain. theconversation.com/anticipation...
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Anticipation in sports: why do some athletes seem to be one step ahead of their opponents?
Some athletes seem to have an ability to predict what’s going to happen in their sports but anticipation is an attribute anyone can develop.
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Lisa Feldman Barrett @lisafeldmanbarrett.com · 19/11/2024
First post. Trying out a potential new home.🙂 lisafeldmanbarrett.com/welcome/
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Welcome | Lisa Feldman Barrett
Hello — I’m Lisa Feldman Barrett. As a neuroscientist and psychologist, I’ve been studying the brain and mind for 30 years. If you’re new to my work, here is a quick path to learn about it.
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