#413 ‒ The neuroscience of emotion: challenging conventional theories of emotion, how the brain predicts and constructs our experiences, and gaining greater control over how we feel | Lisa Feldman Barrett, Ph.D.

Peter sits down with psychologist and neuroscientist Lisa Feldman Barrett to discuss her theory of constructed emotion, which challenges the idea that emotions are hardwired biological responses. Barrett explains how early research findings led her to reject the classical view and develop a new framework based on the brain as a predictive system. She explores how the brain anticipates and regulates the body's metabolism through allostasis, and how relationships help regulate our nervous systems. The conversation covers the effects of chronic stress, childhood adversity, and grief on health, as well as how deliberate practice and new experiences can reshape our emotional predictions, offering greater agency over how we feel.