You aren't at the mercy of your emotions -- your brain creates them

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January 6, 2018 NEW ON TED.COM You aren't at the mercy of your emotions -- your brain creates them 18:15 minutes · TED@IBM Can you look at someone's face and know what they're feeling? Does everyone experience happiness, sadness and anxiety the same way? What are emotions anyway? For the past 25 years, psychology professor Lisa Feldman Barrett has mapped facial expressions, scanned brains and analyzed hundreds of physiology studies to understand what emotions really are. She shares the results of her exhaustive research -- and explains how we may have more control over our emotions than we think. Watch now »   Playlist of the Day How your brain constructs reality Do we experience the world as it really is? Find out with these talks that explain why we see the world the way we do. Watch » 8 talks · Total run time 1:58:09 NEW ON IDEAS.TED.COM A crowdfunding platform aims to solve the puzzle of aging Aging happens to all of us, but scientists still don’t know the mechanism behind it. We need to focus on finding an answer, says molecular biologist Oliver Medvedik. Read more »   Download the TED app

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