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Who is Lisa Feldman Barrett?

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  Who is Lisa Feldman Barrett? Lisa Feldman Barrett is an American psychologist and neuroscientist. She is famous for her theory of constructed emotions , which challenges traditional ideas about how emotions work in the brain. Key Ideas for Beginners (Explained Simply) 1. Emotions are constructed , not automatic Traditional view: Emotions like anger, fear, sadness are built-in, automatic reactions that every human experiences the same way. Barrett’s view: Emotions are not automatic packages inside the brain. The brain creates emotions in the moment , based on: your past experiences your body’s physical state the situation you’re in cultural learning Example: Two people in the same situation may feel different emotions because their brains construct different meanings. 2. The brain is a “prediction machine” Barrett says the brain does not just react—it predicts what will happen next. Your brain constantly uses past experiences to guess what something means. These predictions c...
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Live US Election 2020 Fox News

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Donald Trump or Joe Biden? Come watch the live stream of the 2020 US elections: https://youtu.be/MmrGeWxd87Y
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American Romanticism :

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        Talk about the American Romantic movement in literature (1800-1850), and in particular Dark American Romantic poetry, has to start with a brief exploration of what Romanticism in general is about. It is considered by many literary scholars and historians that literary Romanticism started in modern-day Germany. An archetypal German Romantic is the author Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832), the writer of the Gothic (Dark Romantic) tragedy of Faust (1808). From there it moved to the British Isles, thereby making its glorious entry into the English-speaking world.        The British Romantics penned several masterpieces ranging from poems to novels and defined and epitomized what being a Romantic entails. Arguably, the first British Romantic writer was William Blake (1757-1827), a painter, engraver, printer, and poet. He wrote some of the most awe-inspiring and famous poems in the English language. A modern ...
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Death, Mortality/Immortality, and the Afterlife in the Poetry of Emily Dickinson: Demonstrating the Poet’s Belief in an Afterlife. I)                Intr oduction:          Emily Dickinson (1830-86‘) was a poet obsessed with Death, the hard-to-solve mystery of whether there is a life after death, and the fear of the possibility of there being only oblivion after humans die. She embodies the classic and all-too-prevailing tension between reason, scientific learning, and rationality versus faith , trust , and intuition that many well-known and erudite believers have suffered from and still do so to this very day .That tension is very evident in her wavering between certainty and doubt that can be gleaned from a study of her poetic magnum opi .But despite all that, it is very probable from a close reading of her poems that she held a belief in an immorta...
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