You have more control over your emotions than you think with Lisa Feldman Barrett
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Emotions are like opinions \\u2014 everyone has them. Thanks to the pioneering research of today\\u2019s guest, we know that it\\u2019s possible to transform our feelings by changing how we think and talk about them. Lisa Feldman Barrett is a psychologist and neuroscientist at Northeastern University and Harvard Medical School. In this episode, Lisa and Adam bust myths about how emotions are constructed in the brain and experienced in the body. They discuss the surprising evidence that language doesn\\u2019t just describe emotions \\u2014 it shapes them. And they examine how managing your emotions is easier than you may realize. Transcripts for ReThinking are available at go.ted.com/RWAGscripts
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