#129 – Lisa Feldman Barrett
04 Oct 2020Books mentioned on Lex Fridman Podcast #129:
- How Emotions are Made: The Secret Life of the Brain by Lisa Feldman Barrett
- Seven and a Half Lessons About the Brain by Lisa Feldman Barrett
- The Evolution of Beauty: How Darwin’s Forgotten Theory of Mate Choice Shapes the Animal World – and Us by Richard O. Prum
- Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind by Yuval Noah Harari
- The Botany of Desire: A Plant’s-Eye View of the World by Michael Pollan
- Livewired: The Inside Story of the Ever-Changing Brain by David Eagleman
- On the Origin of Species by Charles Darwin
Lisa Feldman Barrett is a distinguished professor of psychology at Northeastern University, where she focuses on affective science. She is a director of the Interdisciplinary Affective Science Laboratory. Along with James Russell, she is the founding editor-in-chief of the journal Emotion Review. Wikipedia
Other appearances: #140