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Neuroscience of Emotions & Tools for Improving Emotion Regulation | Dr. Ralph Adolphs

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Neuroscience of Emotions & Tools for Improving Emotion Regulation | Dr. Ralph Adolphs

Huberman Lab

Aug 17

Neuroscience of Emotions & Tools for Improving Emotion Regulation | Dr. Ralph Adolphs

Neuroscience of Emotions & Tools for Improving Emotion Regulation | Dr. Ralph Adolphs

Huberman Lab

Huberman Lab

Aug 17

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Dr. Ralph Adolphs, PhD, is a Professor of Psychology, Neuroscience, and Biology at Caltech and a leading expert on the science of human emotions. We discuss how emotions shape our attention and decision-making, whether emotions are truly “stored” in the bo...

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In this episode, neuroscientist Ralph Adolphs examines how emotions arise, influence behavior, and can be regulated through deliberate practice. The conversation connects brain systems, bodily states, social interaction, and lived experience.

00:00

Repeated stress can automate emotional regulation

08:39

Emotions turn urgent threats into prioritized action

12:52

Emotions can outlast the memories that caused them.

21:10

Science can study emotion without solving consciousness.

25:37

Naming emotions makes them easier to regulate

33:42

Repeated stress can train an automatic calming response.

42:23

Awe creates space between stimulus and response

49:04

Faces alone rarely reveal what people feel

51:59

Language reveals more than words alone.

57:52

Fear and panic arise from different brain systems

1:05:30

Feelings emerge from the brain’s representation of bodily change

1:11:18

Emotions steer behavior before conscious thought.

1:17:04

Abstract art can awaken ancient emotional responses

1:24:23

Emotion turns many cues into flexible behavior.

1:30:56

Social compensation can become cognitively overwhelming

1:37:59

Eye contact is a stable individual trait.

1:46:45

Real-time presence changes social interaction.

1:47:18

Solitude can train emotional control

1:58:58

Silence trains the mind to switch cleanly.

2:04:57

Death means losing the world we constructed.

Chapters

Ralph Adolphs

00:00

Emotions; Qualities of Emotions: Priority, Valence

02:54

Qualities of Emotions: Scalability, Persistence

10:00

Sponsors: Helix Sleep & Rorra

15:25

Do Animals Have Emotions?, Conscious Experience

18:17

Monitoring & Regulating Emotions; Emotional Granularity

22:58

Emotional Regulation, Tools: Situational Avoidance, Ice Baths

31:22

Ultramarathons, Perseverance, Adversity; Awe

37:11

Sponsor: AG1

45:04

Perception of Emotions, Amygdala & Fear, Facial Expressions

46:17

Interpreting Others' Emotions, Prediction

51:59

Emotions as Adaptations to the Environment, Types of Fear

57:52

Feeling Emotions in the Body, Pain, Insula

1:00:13

Brain & Body Connection; Marketing & Emotion

1:08:05

Sponsor: Function

1:12:34

Art, Music & Emotion

1:14:11

Interpreting Facial Expressions, Developing Emotions, Flexibility vs Reflexes

1:17:43

Emotional Intelligence, Context-Dependent Social Intelligence; Autism

1:25:11

Sponsor: LMNT

1:33:31

Autism & Social Dynamics, Eye Contact

1:34:51

Change Your Personality?, Body Movement & Thought, Social Interaction

1:42:01

Emotion Regulation, Tool: Training Mental Stillness

1:47:18

Task Switching, Tool: Meditation, Breathing Techniques

1:53:46

Illness, Diagnosis & Emotions, Gratitude & Awe

2:02:07

Zero-Cost Support, YouTube, Spotify & Apple Follow, Reviews & Feedback, Sponsors, Protocols Book, Social Media, Neural Network Newsletter

2:06:52

Transcript

Ralph Adolphs: I see somebody come up behind me, they can see, I'm trying to park, they can move over. No, they come right up behind me, go on the horn, and, you know, you immediately feel just an immediate anger response, right? Well, after the ice bath, ...