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Researchers’ prior beliefs about emotion sneak into supposedly objective machine-learning results.Their words
We find that experimenters' prior beliefs & assumptions about emotion sneak into the supposedly "data driven" or "objective" results produced by machine learning.
Lisa Feldman Barrett
Canadian-American psychologist and neuroscientist; Distinguished Professor of psychology at Northeastern University, where she co-directs the Interdisciplinary Affective Science Laboratory; author of How Emotions Are Made.
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Researchers’ prior beliefs about emotion sneak into supposedly objective machine-learning results.
We find that experimenters' prior beliefs & assumptions about emotion sneak into the supposedly "data driven" or "objective" results produced by machine learning.
bsky.appSaid 30 Oct 2026This on korrents
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Saying ‘you don’t have one brain, you have two’ is an oversimplification.
Saying "You don't have one brain, you have two" is an oversimplification.
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Saying "You don't have one brain, you have two" is an oversimplification.
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The idea of a ‘lizard brain’ wrapped in a limbic system and topped by a rational neocortex is a myth.Their words
It dismantles the myth that you have a "lizard brain" for instincts, wrapped in a "limbic system" for emotions, topped by a "neocortex" for rationality.
26 September
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We find that infants rarely see stereotypical expressions, like frowning in sadness. Instead, infants must learn more complex, many-to-many mappings between facial movements and categories of emotion.
9 January 2025
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I use facial "configuration" instead of "expression," and emotion "perception" instead of "recognition" or "detection." These more neutral terms carry fewer assumptions.
12 March 2018
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MiddlesexTheir words
So in Middlesex, Eugenides does a really nice job of illustrating this complexity of emotional life, the variation of emotional life that doesn’t necessarily fall into neat categories, neat parcels of ‘anger,’ ‘sadness,’ ‘fear,’ ‘disgust,’ and so on, and that’s the first reason I like the book.
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The Principles of PsychologyTheir words
I stumbled onto James’s passages about emotion buried in The Principles of Psychology, and it led me to do a systematic study of exactly what James did and didn’t say about emotion.
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Researchers’ prior beliefs about emotion sneak into supposedly objective machine-learning results.
We find that experimenters' prior beliefs & assumptions about emotion sneak into the supposedly "data driven" or "objective" results produced by machine learning.
@lisafeldmanbarrett.com on Bluesky Said 30 Oct 2026
Saying ‘you don’t have one brain, you have two’ is an oversimplification.
Saying "You don't have one brain, you have two" is an oversimplification.
@lisafeldmanbarrett.com on Bluesky Said 11 Oct 2026
The idea of a ‘lizard brain’ wrapped in a limbic system and topped by a rational neocortex is a myth.
It dismantles the myth that you have a "lizard brain" for instincts, wrapped in a "limbic system" for emotions, topped by a "neocortex" for rationality.
@lisafeldmanbarrett.com on Bluesky Said 10 Oct 2026
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Infants rarely see stereotypical emotional expressions and must learn many-to-many mappings between faces and emotions.
We find that infants rarely see stereotypical expressions, like frowning in sadness. Instead, infants must learn more complex, many-to-many mappings between facial movements and categories of emotion.
@lisafeldmanbarrett.com on Bluesky Said 26 Sept 2026
Emotion science should say facial ‘configuration’ and emotion ‘perception’ rather than ‘expression’ and ‘recognition’.
I use facial "configuration" instead of "expression," and emotion "perception" instead of "recognition" or "detection." These more neutral terms carry fewer assumptions.
@lisafeldmanbarrett.com on Bluesky Said 9 Jan 2025
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Recommends The Principles of Psychology
I stumbled onto James’s passages about emotion buried in The Principles of Psychology, and it led me to do a systematic study of exactly what James did and didn’t say about emotion.
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Recommends Middlesex
So in Middlesex, Eugenides does a really nice job of illustrating this complexity of emotional life, the variation of emotional life that doesn’t necessarily fall into neat categories, neat parcels of ‘anger,’ ‘sadness,’ ‘fear,’ ‘disgust,’ and so on, and that’s the first reason I like the book.
fivebooks.com 12 Mar 2018
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