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This is simply false, a series of claims that have been disproven but refuse to die. See Lisa Feldman-Barrett’s How Emotions Are Made.

by vonnik 2y ago

domofutu 2y ago
But the post actually lines up with Barrett’s ideas rather than contradicting them; it explores how we often interpret facial expressions as a kind of language, shaped by culture and context, not as hardwired signs. It’s saying that while we might associate certain expressions with emotions, those associations aren’t universal—they’re flexible, just like Barrett describes. So in the end, both the post and Barrett agree on the complexity here: facial expressions aren’t a one-size-fits-all code for emotions. Instead, they’re open to interpretation, and that interpretation depends on context, culture, and our own experiences.
dog436zkj3p7 2y ago
Lisa Feldman-Barrett is a hack who thinly veils her inability to conduct robust emotion research by almost exclusively presenting her flawed ideas in pop-sci books aimed at the general public and people outside the emotion field. While she certainly likes to present herself as on authority in emotion research, she has in actuality disproven nothing. Instead, her major contribution is endless philosophizing based on incredibly weak cherry picked psychology experiments mostly conducted by other researchers (which, disappointingly, seems to have grown some roots in the public psyche). In the meantime, research into the neuroscience of affect is booming, with animal experiments starting to uncover the mechanistic basis of emotion and expression, including discovering both in mice and other animals - certainly without requiring language, culture or any construction whatsoever.
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- vonnik 2y ago
  Hmm, I don’t see any signs of a quack here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lisa_Feldman_Barrett https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lisa_Feldman_Barrett https://www.affective-science.org/lisa-feldman-barrett.shtml https://www.affective-science.org/lisa-feldman-barrett.shtml A PhD, national awards, research appoints at Mass. General/Harvard Med.

This is simply false, a series of claims that have been disproven but refuse to die. See Lisa Feldman-Barrett’s How Emotions Are Made.

by vonnik 2y ago

This is simply false, a series of claims that have been disproven but refuse to die. See Lisa Feldman-Barrett’s How Emotions Are Made.

domofutu 2y ago

But the post actually lines up with Barrett’s ideas rather than contradicting them; it explores how we often interpret facial expressions as a kind of language, shaped by culture and context, not as hardwired signs. It’s saying that while we might associate certain expressions with emotions, those associations aren’t universal—they’re flexible, just like Barrett describes. So in the end, both the post and Barrett agree on the complexity here: facial expressions aren’t a one-size-fits-all code for emotions. Instead, they’re open to interpretation, and that interpretation depends on context, culture, and our own experiences.

dog436zkj3p7 2y ago

Lisa Feldman-Barrett is a hack who thinly veils her inability to conduct robust emotion research by almost exclusively presenting her flawed ideas in pop-sci books aimed at the general public and people outside the emotion field. While she certainly likes to present herself as on authority in emotion research, she has in actuality disproven nothing. Instead, her major contribution is endless philosophizing based on incredibly weak cherry picked psychology experiments mostly conducted by other researchers (which, disappointingly, seems to have grown some roots in the public psyche). In the meantime, research into the neuroscience of affect is booming, with animal experiments starting to uncover the mechanistic basis of emotion and expression, including discovering both in mice and other animals - certainly without requiring language, culture or any construction whatsoever.

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vonnik 2y ago
Hmm, I don’t see any signs of a quack here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lisa_Feldman_Barrett https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lisa_Feldman_Barrett https://www.affective-science.org/lisa-feldman-barrett.shtml https://www.affective-science.org/lisa-feldman-barrett.shtml A PhD, national awards, research appoints at Mass. General/Harvard Med.