(De)Constructing Emotions with Lisa Feldman Barrett, Ph.D. 2.2.2018
INTERDISCIPLINAR Y AFFECTIVE SCIENCE UNC School of Social Work Clinical Lecture Series LABORATORY Cosponsored with UNC Department of Psychology
Deconstructing Emotion: The Theory of Constructed Emotion February 2, 2018 Lisa Feldman Barrett, Ph.D.
Northeastern University | Massachusetts General Hospital | Harvard Medical School
Atlas of Emotions Anger Happy
Disgust
Fear
Sad New York Times, May 6, 2016
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Three Myths
FACES BODIES BRAINS
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Emotions are displayed on the face with expressions we recognize.
N O. 1
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Meta-Analysis: Facial Movements
Duran et al. (2017)
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Remote Cultures: 1969-2007
Bahinemo of Papua New Guinea Sorenson (1975)
Fore of Papua New Sadong of Borneo Sadong of Borneo Guinea Ekman et al. (1969) Sorenson (1975) Ekman, Sorenson & Friesen (1969)
Fore of Papua New Guinea Dani of Indonesia (Western Ekman & Freisen (1971) New Guinea) Ekman (1972)
Dani of Indonesia (Western New Guinea) Fore of Papua New Ekman, Heider et al. (unpublished) Guinea Sorenson (1975)
Gendron et al. (in press). Current Directions in Psychological Science
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Remote Cultures: 2008-2017
Dioula of Burkina Faso Tracy & Robins (2008) Trobrianders of Papua Shuar of Amazonian Hadza of Tanzania New Guinea Ecuador Gendron et al. (submitted) Crivelli, Jarillo et al. Bryant & Barrett (2008) (2016) Mwani of Mozambique Crivelli, Jarillo et al. Himba of Namibia (2016) (2 samples) Gendron et al. (2014) Trobrianders of Papua New Guinea (2 samples) Crivelli, Russell et al. (2016)
Trobrianders of Papua New Guinea (2 samples) Crivelli, Russell et al. (2017)
Gendron et al. (in press). Current Directions in Psychological Science
INTRODUCTION FACT vs. MYTH SIMULATION PREDICTION MEANING INSIGHTS 19 Remote Samples Universal Cultural Variation
More constrained 9 samples 1 sample
Less constrained 0 samples 9 samples
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FACT N O. 1 A face does not speak for itself.
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Chanes et al., (in press). JPSP
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Emotions have bodily fingerprints.
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Siegel et al. (in press). Psychological Bulletin
Variation is the Norm
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FACT N O. 2 An emotion is what internal sensations mean in relation to what is going on around you in the world
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There are dedicated emotion circuits in the brain.
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Fear is localized in the amygdala?
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70
60 Proportion of 50 Studies Reporting 40 Increased Amygdala Activity 30 20
10
0
ANGER DISGUST FEAR HAPPY SAD
Lindquist, Wager, Kober, Bliss-Moreau & Barrett (2012) Behavioral and Brain Sciences
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Anger
Disgust A pattern is a statistical summary, not a brain Fear state
C la r k - Polner, Johnson & Barrett (2016) Cerebral Cortex Happy
Sad
Wager, Kang, Johnson, Nichols, Satpute, & Barrett (2015). A Bayesian model of category specific emotional brain responses. PLoS Comp. Biol.
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NEO-CORTEX
LIMBIC
REPTILIAN
Triune Brain
Striedter (2005). Brain Evolution.
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FACT N O. 3
Emotions are complex constructions, not simple circuits.
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FACT N O. 3
Reason does not rule emotion. (They don’t live in separate parts of the brain.)
So, what do we know?
Barrett (2017). How Emotions Are Made: The Secret Life of the Brain
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Emotions are not built in. They’re built.
Kok et al. (2016). Current Biology.
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Internal Model at Work
Medial Lateral
N = 16; False Discovery Rate p < .05 Wilson-Mendenhall , Barsalou & Barrett (under review)
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Prediction
World
Body Sensation
System One
Barrett (2017). How Emotions Are Made: The Secret Life of the Brain
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New Prediction World
Body Sensation
System Two
Barrett (2017). How Emotions Are Made: The Secret Life of the Brain
Regulation of the Body
Default Mode Core Hubs Salience Network Network
Noriginal=280; Kleckner, Zhang, Touroutoglou, Simmons, Dickerson & Barrett (2017), Nature Human Behavior Nreplication = 280
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Default Mode Network
S O C I A L P H Y S I C A L ATYPICAL EMOTIONS E M O T I O N E M O T I O N SUBJECTIVE F E A R F E A R C O N C E P T S V A L U E
SOCIAL AFFILATION CHRONIC T R A I T E M P A T H Y MORAL JUDGEMENTS T H E O R Y PAIN JUDGEMENTS O F M I N D
REWARD SMOKING PROSPECTION PERCEPTION C O N C E P T S A D D I C T I O N (RED)
Barrett & Satpute (2013). Large-scale brain networks in affective and social neuroscience. Current Opinion in Neurobiology
INTRODUCTION FACT vs. MYTH SIMULATION PREDICTION MEANING INSIGHTS INTEROCEPTION ALLOSTASIS “The core task of all brains … is to regulate the organism’s internal milieu… by anticipating needs and preparing to satisfy them before they arise.”
Sterling & Laughlin (2015). Principles of Neural Design (p. xvi)
INTRODUCTION RegulationFACT vs. MYTH SIMULATION of AttentionPREDICTION MEANING INSIGHTS
Locus Coeruleus Upper Raphe Nuclei Substantia Nigra and VTA (Norepinephrine) (Serotonin) (Dopamine)
Bar et al. (2016). Neuroimage.
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The Biology of Meaning Making
Default Mode Core Hubs Salience Network Network
Barrett (2017). How emotions are made. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
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Emotions are not reactions to the world. They are constructions of the world.
Barrett (2017). How Emotions Are Made: The Secret Life of the Brain
SERENITY ANGER HAPPINESS PRIDE IRRITATION COMPASSION ANNOYANCE ENVY AWE DISGUST DELIGHT GRATITUDE JOY ASTONISHMENT
Emotional Granularity
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In your brain, you carry a model of the world.
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Your brain is not metabolically frivolous.
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What you think of as "outside" in the world partly comes from what's "inside" your own head.
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You are an architect of your own experience.
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In every waking moment, your brain uses past experience, organized as concepts, to guide your actions and give your sensations meaning. When the concepts involved are emotion concepts, your brain constructs instances of emotion
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You help to create the environment that influences the brain and bodies of those around you
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Emotional communication is a synchrony of constructions
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Miscommunication is dysynchrony
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You help to create the environment that turns on/off the genes to wire the brains of the next generation
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… you’re also an electrician.
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