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.
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