Lisa Feldman Barrett PhD is Professor of Psychology and Director of the Interdisciplinary Affective Science Laboratory (IASL) at Boston College, with appointments at Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts General Hospital. Dr. Barrett received her B.Sc. from the University of Toronto in 1986, and her Ph.D. in clinical psychology from the University of Waterloo in 1992.

Some Lisa Feldman Barrett hypothesis are :

1. Words words for emotion correspond to mental states that can be described as the combination of more basic psychological processes.
2. The mental events called "anger," "sadness," and "fear" are not basic building blocks in the mind, but instead are mental events that result from the interplay of more basic psychological systems that are not themselves specific to emotion.
3. An emotion word like "anger" names a commonsense category that corresponds to a range of mental events which emerge from the interaction of more basic psychological ingredients.

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Among Lisa Feldman Barrett books are :

Selected Bibliography : Lisa Feldman Barret website - http://www2.bc.edu/~barretli

Next researcher on emotions: Lisa Feldman Barrett