28M subscribers • 27 videos on Rounds
For anyone, no background needed. Education, not medical advice.
3.2M views8 years ago1 recommendation
Brain and nervesMental healthNeuroscienceStressDepression and anxiety
Lisa Feldman Barrett explains how the brain actively constructs emotions rather than just passively reacting to the world.
Can you look at someone's face and know what they're feeling? Does everyone experience happiness, sadness and anxiety the same way? What are emotions anyway? For the past 25 years, psychology professor Lisa Feldman Barrett has mapped facial expressions, scanned brains and analyzed hundreds of physiology studies to understand what emotions really are. She shares the results of her exhaustive research -- and explains how we may have more control over our emotions than we think. Check out more TED Talks: ted.com The TED Talks channel features the best talks and performances from the TED Conference, where the world's leading thinkers and doers give the talk of their lives in 18 minutes (or less). Look for talks on Technology, Entertainment and Design -- plus science, business, global issues, the arts and more. Follow TED on Twitter: twitter.com/TEDTalks Like TED on Facebook: facebook.com/TED Subscribe to our channel: youtube.com/TEDWhat people say. Recommended as an insightful explanation of the theory of constructed emotion and how the brain processes feelings.
gepi79in Hacker News • Recommends
On “What the grieving mother orca tells us about how animals experience death”
lustysocietyorgin Hacker News • Mentions
On “How Dad's Stresses Get Passed Along to Offspring”
Ageborin Hacker News • Mentions
On “Things everyone in ML should know about belief formation in humans [video]”