2025

January 10, 2025

Why am I always interrupting people?

At the Boston Globe, staff have noticed more interruptions over the past few years — people cutting off our sentences, sometimes to guess what we’re going to say next. Half the time they don’t...

2024

June 23, 2024

Are you 80% angry and 2% sad? Why ‘emotional AI’ is fraught with problems

AI that purports to read our feelings may enhance user experience but concerns over misuse and bias mean the field is fraught with potential dangers

June 6, 2024

Highly successful people use this mental shift to get ahead of stress at work, says neuroscientist

Asking for a raise or giving a presentation to a group of executives can give you some workplace jitters. You might try to mitigate the feeling of anxiety in the moment by regulating your nervous...

May 15, 2024

Reality’s how we relate to it: Distinguished professor speaks at prestigious philosophy of mind lecture series

Lisa Feldman Barrett, university distinguished professor of psychology and co-lead of the Interdisciplinary Affective Science Laboratory, says that she began her career “trying to answer what I...

April 16, 2024

Learning These 8 Terms for Different Types of Relationships Will Instantly Boost Your Emotional Intelligence

Neuroscience shows having more precise words for feelings and situations helps you make smarter choices about them

April 1, 2024

Being Well in the Modern World

Kelly introduces the season by sitting down with Dr. Atul Gawande, Dr. Lisa Feldman Barrett and Dr. Dani Dumitriu to discuss the state of mental health and well-being in America today. Our experts...

March 27, 2024

Feel how the brain wants it

In her book, Lisa Feldman Barrett explains the concepts of current emotion research in a clear and understandable way. You also learn a lot about yourself in the process.

March 6, 2024

Rethinking, exploring and understanding feelings

Lisa Feldman Barrett receives the first scientific prize “Ruhr Award for Philosophy and the Mind Sciences”. The media are cordially invited to the award ceremony on March 14.

February 24, 2024

How Emotions Are Made

An emotion is your brain’s creation of what your bodily sensations mean, in relation to what is going on around you in the world… In every waking moment, your brain uses past experience, organized...

2023

December 25, 2023

People High in Emotional Intelligence Use the Cake Baking Principle to Master Their Inner World and Take Charge

You can construct your emotional reality -- like you would bake a cake.

October 21, 2023

If You Are Feeling Overwhelmed by the World Right Now, Read on: Lisa Feldman Barrett Offers These Tools for How to Cope

September 5, 2023

Anxiety: A Metabolic Disorder?

The most basic symptoms may relate to energy use, and the most direct treatment may be dietary.

July 10, 2023

How your brain creates reality, explained by a neuroscientist

Your “social reality” isn’t an absolute reality. A leading neuroscientist explains why.

June 26, 2023

The neuroscience of trauma

What sets trauma apart from regular bad experiences? A leading neuroscientist explains.

June 12, 2023

An evolutionary history of the human brain, in 7 minutes

Plato and Carl Sagan were wrong about the human brain, says a top neuroscientist.

June 12, 2023

Reptilian Brain Myth Is Still Alive and Kicking

Do we have a three-part brain — reptilian, mammalian, and human? Curiously, psychology textbooks teach us that we do and neuroscience studies teach us that we don’t. Who to believe? And how did...

May 29, 2023