PSY 420-M3A1: Video Assignment – You Aren’t at the Mercy of Your Emotions

Lisa Feldman Barrett, in her TED Talks presentation, examines questions such as whether or not you 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. In this presentation, Dr. Barrett shares the results of her research and discusses how we can control our emotions.For this assignment, you’re going to watch Dr. Lisa Feldman Barrett’s TED Talk presentation, and then create your own video, reacting to her TED Talk and explaining your thoughts about emotions, the brain, and how we can take control of our emotions.The reason you are making a video is because, as you already know, communication through only written information is not the only skill needed in today’s world. Being capable of communicating your ideas orally using professional body language and presentation skills is critical for job and career success. Creating videos will help you improve your technical and communication skills, which will be used in any career you pursue.Successful completion of this activity meets Module Outcomes 3, 4,