Huberman Lab · 2026-08-17 · 130 min · 24,894 words

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

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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, e and you know, you immediately feel. Just an immediate anger response, right? Well, after the ice bath, it's flat.

So there was an immediate Automatic down regulation of my autonomic emotional response to a psychological stressor, to somebody honking at me. That was trained. It's an experiment of one. I'm not claiming this as a published study, but I so I think there's a there's a direct autonomic training component as well, in terms of the strength and the automaticity, the ease with which you can regulate emotions, that they can become

kind of automatically regulated. You don't have to overthink it. It becomes smooth and effortless to some extent. And that's that's the place where you g where you where you want to get. Hey everyone. To celebrate the launch of my new book entitled Protocols. I'm pleased to share that I'll be hosting three live events very soon.

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