Lisa Feldman Barrett on the construction of emotions
Lisa Feldman Barrett shares the results of her exhaustive research — and explains how we may have more control over our emotions than we think.
This talk by Lisa Feldman Barrett is a helpful reminder that we have more power over how we experience (and predict) our emotions than our dominant culture suggests. It’s also a powerful reminder that it can be very hard to predict the felt experiences of others, especially across cultures.
Can you look at someone’s face and know what they’re feeling? Does everyone experience happiness, sadness and anxiety the same way? What are emotions anyway? For the past 25 years, psychology professor Lisa Feldman Barrett has mapped facial expressions, scanned brains and analyzed hundreds of physiology studies to understand what emotions really are. She shares the results of her exhaustive research — and explains how we may have more control over our emotions than we think.
TED 2017
