Lisa Feldman Barrett - Your Emotions Aren't What You Think

We launch our second season featuring a conversation with 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. Full show notes and resources