25 Quotes by Lisa Feldman Barrett

The human brain is a cultural artifact. We don't load culture into a virgin brain like software loading into a computer; rather, culture helps to wire the brain. Brains then become carriers of culture, helping to create and perpetuate it.

Human beings are not at the mercy of mythical emotion circuits buried deep within animalistic parts of our highly evolved brain: we are architects of our own experience.

The triune brain idea is one of the most successful and widespread errors in all of science.

Sometimes we're responsible for things not because they're our fault, but because we're the only ones who can change them.

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.

Emotions are not reactions to the world; they are your constructions of the world.

It takes more than one human brain to create a human mind.

The theory of constructed emotion, in contrast, tells a story that doesn’t match your daily life – your brain invisibly constructs everything you experience, including emotions.

Through prediction and correction, your brain continually creates and revises your mental model of the world. It’s a huge, ongoing simulation that constructs everything you perceive while determining how you act.