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 bo

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.