Lisa Feldman Barrett
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Lisa Feldman Barrett is a Canadian-American psychologist who studies how the brain makes emotion.
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5 facts on wiqqi (opens wiqqi.app)
- Born: 1963, Toronto (opens wiqqi.app)
- Education: University of Toronto; PhD in clinical psychology, University of Waterloo (opens wiqqi.app)
- Positions: Penn State; Boston College, 1996 to 2010; Northeastern University, from 2010 (opens wiqqi.app)
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2 channels on ppll (opens ppll.app)
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5 beliefs on korrents (opens korrents.com)
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Researchers’ prior beliefs about emotion sneak into supposedly objective machine-learning results. (opens korrents.com)
“We find that experimenters' prior beliefs & assumptions about emotion sneak into the supposedly "data driven" or "objective" results produced by machine learning.”
- Saying ‘you don’t have one brain, you have two’ is an oversimplification. (opens korrents.com)
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The idea of a ‘lizard brain’ wrapped in a limbic system and topped by a rational neocortex is a myth. (opens korrents.com)
“It dismantles the myth that you have a "lizard brain" for instincts, wrapped in a "limbic system" for emotions, topped by a "neocortex" for rationality.”
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Researchers’ prior beliefs about emotion sneak into supposedly objective machine-learning results. (opens korrents.com)
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2 recommendations on rcmnd (opens rcmnd.app)
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Middlesex (opens rcmnd.app)
“So in Middlesex, Eugenides does a really nice job of illustrating this complexity of emotional life, the variation of emotional life that doesn’t necessarily fall into neat categories, neat parcels of ‘anger,’…”
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The Principles of Psychology (opens rcmnd.app)
“I stumbled onto James’s passages about emotion buried in The Principles of Psychology, and it led me to do a systematic study of exactly what James did and didn’t say about emotion.”
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Middlesex (opens rcmnd.app)