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Lisa Feldman Barrett
Author of "How Emotions are Made: The Secret Life of the Brain" & Professor of Psychology at Northeastern University
Lisa Feldman Barrett is a University Distinguished Professor of psychology at Northeastern University with appointments at the Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) and Harvard Medical School. Dr. Barrett is among the top 1% most-cited scientists worldwide for her revolutionary research in psychology and neuroscience, having published over 270 peer-reviewed scientific papers.
She has received numerous awards, including a Director’s Pioneer Award for transformative research from the US National Institutes of Health, a Guggenheim Fellowship in neuroscience, Mentor Awards from the Association for Psychological Science (APS) and the Society for Affect Science (SAS), and the Distinguished Scientific Contribution Award from the American Psychological Association (APA).
Dr. Barrett is an elected fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the Royal Society of Canada, and a number of other honorific societies. She has testified before the US Congress, is the Chief Science Officer for the Center for Law, Brain and Behavior at MGH, and actively engages in informal science education for the public via popular books, articles and public lectures. She has authored two best-selling popular science books, “How Emotions are Made: The Secret Life of the Brain” and “Seven and a Half Lessons About the Brain.”
Her popular TED talk has been viewed more than 6.5 million times to date. Colleagues have called Dr. Barrett "the most important affective scientist of our time" and “the deepest thinker on <the nature of emotion> since Darwin.”
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