Tag: Deirdre Barrett

  • Nation & World

    The quote machine

    Powered by Harvard conversations, an ever-expanding collection of arguments, insights, reactions, and reflections.

    23 minutes
    Toni Morrison, Amanda Gorman, Paul Farmer, Jill Lepore, Henry Louis "Skip" Gates Jr., Annette Gordon Reed, Drew Faust, Gish Jen.
  • Nation & World

    When you dream of feeling naked in public — without a mask

    The data gathered by Deirdre Barrett shines a light on how our subconscious is grappling with a time like no other.

    5 minutes
    Illustration of dream about covid.
  • Nation & World

    What pandemic dreams may come

    Harvard Medical School Assistant Professor of Psychology Deirdre Barrett created an online survey to collect dreams of people during the pandemic.

    10 minutes
    Plague doctor illustration.
  • Nation & World

    Dream saga of WWII

    As part of a project by Professor Deirdre Barrett to resurrect a study started in 1940, a group of Harvard undergraduates probed the dreams of British officers captured early in World War II and held in a German prison camp.

    6 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Playing on our instincts

    Assistant clinical professor of psychology Deirdre Barrett says that many of today’s ills come from intentional overstimulation of natural human impulses, giving people hard-to-resist appetites for everything from fighting to sex to unhealthy foods.

    3 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Getting to obesity’s bottom line

    Hunter-gatherer instincts set loose in a world of modern food abundance are at the root of today’s obesity crisis, according to a Harvard psychologist.

    5 minutes