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 (podcast.mindandlife.org/lisa-feldman-barrett)