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Episode: Best of the Archives: How Your Emotions Are Made | Lisa Feldman Barrett
Description: Dr. Lisa Feldman Barrett is at the forefront of understanding human emotions: what they are, why humans evolved to have them, how they're different from feelings, and what science says about how to manage them. She is a University Distinguished Professor of Psychology at Northeastern University, with appointments at Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts General Hospital. She's written several books, including How Emotions Are Made: The Secret Life of the Brain and Seven and a Half Lessons About the Brain. This episode explores how we can "deconstruct" our own emotions, and the overlap between her research findings and Buddhism.<...