In Depth: Brains and Bias
Where does bias in decision making come from? In this first of four in-depth episodes, we delve into the neuroscience and physiology behind bias and decision making with Lisa Feldman Barrett, a professor of psychology whose TED Talk was one of the most popular of 2018.
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Lisa Feldman Barrett
Lisa Feldman Barrett is a University Distinguished Professor of psychology and director of the Interdisciplinary Affective Science Laboratory at Northeastern University, with research appointments at Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School. She also educates lawyers, judges, and other legal actors about emotion, neuroscience, and the law for her work for Harvard’s Center for Law, Brain and Behavior. Her research focuses on the nature of emotion from the perspectives of both psychology and neuroscience. She is an elected fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the Royal Society of Canada and recently received a Guggenheim fellowship. Barrett won the 2018 Lifetime Mentor Award from the Association for Psychological Science and a 2007 Director’s Pioneer Award from the US National Institutes of Health. Barrett’s articles have appeared in the New York Times, Popular Science, Nautilus, Cosmopolitan, and Time. Her TED Talk, viewed more than four million times, was chosen as one of the most popular of 2018. Barrett is the author of How Emotions Are Made: The Secret Life of the Brain (2017).
RELATED RESOURCES
· Feldman Barrett, Lisa. How Emotions Are Made: The Secret Life of the Brain. Mariner Books; reprint edition, 2018.