Episode · Huberman Lab · 2023-10-16
Andrew Huberman & Lisa Feldman Barrett: books mentioned on Huberman Lab
How to Understand Emotions | Dr. Lisa Feldman Barrett
In this episode, my guest is Dr. Lisa Feldman Barrett, Ph.D., a Distinguished Professor of Psychology at Northeastern University who is a world expert in the science of emotions.
Andrew Huberman recommended How Emotions Are Made by Lisa Feldman Barrett and Seven and a Half Lessons about the Brain by Lisa Feldman Barrett. Dr. Lisa Feldman Barrett recommended Not By Genes Alone by Peter J. Richerson and others and An Immense World by Ed Yong, and criticized The Body Keeps the Score by Bessel van der Kolk.
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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How Emotions Are Made
Recommended“The first one is entitled 'How Emotions Are Made,' and the second book, which includes information about emotions but extends beyond that, is entitled 'Seven and a Half Lessons About the Brain.'”
Where to get it
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Seven and a Half Lessons about the Brain
Recommended“The first one is entitled 'How Emotions Are Made,' and the second book, which includes information about emotions but extends beyond that, is entitled 'Seven and a Half Lessons About the Brain.'”
Where to get it
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Not By Genes Alone
Recommended“in fact there's a really wonderful book called not by genes alone basically there's cultural inheritance”
Where to get it
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The Body Keeps the Score
Critiqued“your body doesn't keep the score you know yeah great book title because it's super catchy but with all due respect to I think the important work of Vander I think it oversimplified and led people to believe that their back pain was trauma and that all trauma is semat of size and it's not”
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An Immense World
Recommended“when I was reading um ed yong's new book oh um first he wrote We contain multitudes which I think one of politzer and then um what is the recent one with animals an immense world and what I what I was thinking was you know it's a first of all it's a masterful masterful masterful book I I wish”
Where to get it
Other mentions in this episode (4) — ad reads, self-promotion and passing references, never counted
Plugged How Emotions Are Made
“and her two fabulous books on emotions in the brain the first one entitled how emotions are made and the second book which includes information about emotions but extends beyond that entitled seven and a half lessons about the brain”
“and her two fabulous books on emotions in the brain the first one entitled how emotions are made and the second book which includes information about emotions but extends beyond that entitled seven and a half lessons about the brain”
Plugged How Emotions Are Made
“but when my daughter this is all in how emotions are made these examples”
Plugged How Emotions Are Made
“how emotions are made this book that I referred to I wrote that book for her”