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How Emotions Are Made

Lisa Feldman Barrett ISBN 9780544133310

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This book by Lisa Feldman Barrett has come up 7 times across 3 different shows: Andrew Huberman, Diary of a CEO, Lex Fridman. 2 of those mentions were genuine on-air recommendations, not just passing references. The people who brought it up: Andrew Huberman, Lex Fridman, Lisa Feldman Barrett, Steven Bartlett. The earliest mention we indexed is from 2018-02-24 and the most recent from 2025-04-17. Every occurrence below links to the episode page and to the exact second it was said on YouTube.

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Guest's own workDiary of a CEO

No.1 Neuroscientist: you can change who you are in 30 days

“I highly recommend this book. how emotions are made. I'm going to link it below. The secret life of the brain”— Steven Bartlett

The guest here is Dr. Lisa Feldman Barrett: A world-leading neuroscientist and one of the top 0.1% most-cited scientists, known for the theory of constructed emotion and her books on how the brain builds emotions and reality. Neuroscientist Lisa Feldman Barrett explains how your brain predicts rather than reacts, and how that gives you the power to change who you are.

02:04:312025-04-17
Guest's own workAndrew Huberman

How to Understand Emotions | Dr. Lisa Feldman Barrett

“her two fabulous books on emotions in the brain the first one entitled how emotions are made and the second book”— Andrew Huberman

The guest here is Dr. Lisa Feldman Barrett: Distinguished professor of psychology at Northeastern University with appointments at Harvard Medical School and Mass General, where she is chief scientific officer of the Center for Law, Brain and Behavior. She is one of the world's top experts on the science of emotion and author of 'How Emotions Are Made' and 'Seven and a Half Lessons About the Brain.'. Neuroscientist Lisa Feldman Barrett dismantles the myth of universal emotions, explaining how the brain constructs them to budget the body.

00:01:332023-10-16
RecommendedAndrew Huberman

How Foods and Nutrients Control Our Moods

“I'm a huge fan of Lisa Feldman Barrett ... bought it, read it, loved it”
“I'm a huge fan of Lisa Feldman Barrett ... Her first book is How Emotions Are Made ... bought it, read it, loved it”— Andrew Huberman

The guest here is Andrew Huberman: Professor of neurobiology and ophthalmology at Stanford School of Medicine and host of the Huberman Lab podcast, which translates neuroscience into practical health tools. Huberman explains how the foods you eat steer dopamine, serotonin, and mood through the gut-brain axis, plus tools to shift emotions.

00:51:142021-03-15
RecommendedAndrew Huberman

Tools for Managing Stress & Anxiety

“two books that are really wonderful”
“She's written two books that are really wonderful. One is "How Emotions Are Made," which was her first book.”— Andrew Huberman

The guest here is Andrew Huberman: Professor of Neurobiology and Ophthalmology at Stanford School of Medicine and host of the Huberman Lab Podcast, where he translates neuroscience into practical, science-based tools. Huberman reframes stress as a generic, useful biological system and teaches real-time tools to dial it up or down on demand.

01:27:222021-03-08
Guest's own workLex Fridman

Lisa Feldman Barrett: Love, Evolution, and the Human Brain | Lex Fridman Podcast #140

“you also have the author of another book is we talked about how emotions are made so it's interesting to talk about the process of writing”— Lisa Feldman Barrett

The guest here is Lisa Feldman Barrett: A neuroscientist at Northeastern University and one of the most cited psychologists in the world, known for her theory of constructed emotion. She is the author of How Emotions Are Made and Seven and a Half Lessons About the Brain. Neuroscientist Lisa Feldman Barrett joins Lex Fridman for a freewheeling talk on love, brain evolution, free will, and consciousness.

01:38:442020-11-20
Guest's own workLex Fridman

Lisa Feldman Barrett: Counterintuitive Ideas About How the Brain Works | Lex Fridman Podcast #129

“she is the author of a book that revolutionized our understanding of emotion in the brain called how emotions are made”— Lex Fridman

The guest here is Lisa Feldman Barrett: A professor of psychology at Northeastern University and one of the world's most cited neuroscientists, known for the theory of constructed emotion and books How Emotions Are Made and Seven and a Half Lessons About the Brain. Neuroscientist Lisa Feldman Barrett dismantles the triune-brain myth and explains how the brain predicts, constructs emotions, and budgets the body.

00:00:002020-10-04
Guest's own workLex Fridman

Lisa Feldman Barrett: How the Brain Creates Emotions | MIT Artificial General Intelligence (AGI)

“author of the new amazing book how emotions are made the secret life of the brain she studies emotion human emotion”— Lex Fridman

The guest here is Lisa Feldman Barrett: University distinguished professor of psychology at Northeastern University, director of the Interdisciplinary Affective Science Laboratory, and author of 'How Emotions Are Made'. Neuroscientist Lisa Feldman Barrett explains how the brain constructs emotions and what that means for building human-like AI.

00:00:002018-02-24