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Lisa Feldman Barrett Quotes

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“Numerous experiments showed that people feel depressed when they fail to live up to their own ideals, but when they fall short of a standard set by others, they feel anxious.”
— Lisa Feldman Barrett, How Emotions Are Made: The Secret Life of the Brain
Tagged: emotions, How To Think, Anxiety, Depression
“An emotion is your brain’s creation of what your bodily sensations mean, in relation to what is going on around you in the world.”
— Lisa Feldman Barrett, How Emotions Are Made: The Secret Life of the Brain
Tagged: How To Think, emotions, how emotions are made, Brain
“The word 'smile' doesn’t even exist in Latin or Ancient Greek. Smiling was an invention of the Middle Ages, and broad, toothy-mouthed smiles (with crinkling at the eyes, named the Duchenne smile by Ekman) became popular only in the eighteenth century as dentistry became more accessible and affordable.”
— Lisa Feldman Barrett, How Emotions Are Made: The Secret Life of the Brain
Tagged: emotions, How To Think, Smile, Social Cues
“Social reality is not just about words—it gets under your skin. If you perceive the same baked good as a decadent 'cupcake' or a healthful 'muffin,' research suggests that your body metabolizes it differently. Likewise, the words and concepts of your culture help to shape your brain wiring and your physical changes during emotion.”
— Lisa Feldman Barrett, How Emotions Are Made: The Secret Life of the Brain
Tagged: How To Think, emotions, how emotions are made, metabolizing
“Simulations are your brain’s guesses of what’s happening in the world. In every waking moment, you’re faced with ambiguous, noisy information from your eyes, ears, nose, and other sensory organs. Your brain uses your past experiences to construct a hypothesis—the simulation—and compares it to the cacophony arriving from your senses. In this manner, simulation lets your brain impose meaning on the noise, selecting what’s relevant and ignoring the rest.”
— Lisa Feldman Barrett, How Emotions Are Made: The Secret Life of the Brain
Tagged: emotions, How To Think, cues, how emotions are made
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