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Sie sind Ihren Gefühlen nicht ausgeliefert -- Ihr Gehirn erschafft sie

6,822,428 views | Lisa Feldman Barrett • TED@IBM

Können Sie die Gefühle anderer aus dem Gesicht ablesen? Empfindet jeder Fröhlichkeit, Traurigkeit und Angst auf die gleiche Weise? Was sind Emotionen überhaupt? Während der letzten 25 Jahre hat die Professorin für Psychologie Lisa Feldman Barrett Gesichtsausdrücke aufgezeichnet und hunderte Physiologiestudien analysiert, um herauszufinden was Emotionen wirklich sind. Sie berichtet über die Ergebnisse ihrer ausgiebigen Forschung und erklärt, dass wir mehr Kontrolle über unsere Emotionen haben können, als wir denken.

Können Sie die Gefühle anderer aus dem Gesicht ablesen? Empfindet jeder Fröhlichkeit, Traurigkeit und Angst auf die gleiche Weise? Was sind Emotionen überhaupt? Während der letzten 25 Jahre hat die Professorin für Psychologie Lisa Feldman Barrett Gesichtsausdrücke aufgezeichnet und hunderte Physiologiestudien analysiert, um herauszufinden was Emotionen wirklich sind. Sie berichtet über die Ergebnisse ihrer ausgiebigen Forschung und erklärt, dass wir mehr Kontrolle über unsere Emotionen haben können, als wir denken.

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Lisa Feldman Barrett

Neuroscientist, psychologist, author

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Lisa Feldman Barrett, PhD is a University Distinguished Professor of Psychology at Northeastern University, with positions in psychiatry and radiology at Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School.

Lisa Feldman Barrett | Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2017 | Book

How Emotions Are Made: The Secret Life of the Brain

This book presents a new theory of emotion in detail, along with the psychological and neuroscience evidence. It also includes practical chapters on emotional intelligence, emotion and health, emotion and the law, and emotion in other animals.

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lisafeldmanbarrett.com

Articles, blog posts, and other items of interest about emotion, mind, and brain.

Jakob Hohwy | Oxford University Press, 2014 | Book

The Predictive Mind

This book and the one below provide a nice description of how the mind predicts and constructs experiences of the world rather than reacts to the world. Interested viewers who are looking for a more technical treatment can find a list of scientific references here.

Andy Clark | Oxford University Press, 2015 | Book

Surfing Uncertainty

Lisa Feldman Barrett | Nautilus, 2017 | Article

"Emotional Intelligence Needs a Rewrite"

New ideas on emotional intelligence are introduced in this article, published in the science magazine Nautilus.

Lisa Feldman Barrett | The Chronicle of Higher Education, 2017 | Article

"The Secret History of Emotions"

This essay describes how I began the long scientific journey, starting 25 years ago, that eventually brought me to the TED stage.

Kurt Danziger | SAGE Publications Ltd, 1997 | Book

Naming the Mind: How Psychology Found Its Language

This book and the ones below provide some of the historical and philosophical background for new theory of emotion I discuss on the TED stage.

John Searle | Free Press, 1997 | Book

The Construction of Social Reality

Marcelo Gleiser | Basic Books, 2015 | Book

The Island of Knowledge: The Limits of Science and the Search for Meaning

Richard Lewontin | Harvard University Press, 2012 | Book

The Triple Helix: Gene, Organism, Environment

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