Lisa Feldman Barrett
Psychologist and neuroscientist of emotion; author of How Emotions Are Made.
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- Lisa Feldman Barrett is a Canadian-American psychologist who studies how the brain makes emotion.
- She is a Distinguished Professor of psychology at Northeastern University, where she co-directs the Interdisciplinary Affective Science Laboratory.
- She wrote How Emotions Are Made (2017) and Seven and a Half Lessons About the Brain (2020).
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- Born
- 1963, Toronto1
- Education
- University of Toronto; PhD in clinical psychology, University of Waterloo1
- Positions
- Penn State; Boston College, 1996 to 2010; Northeastern University, from 20101
- Roles
- President of the Association for Psychological Science, 2019 to 2020; founding editor-in-chief of Emotion Review, with James Russell1
- Awards
- APA Award for Distinguished Scientific Contributions (2021); APS William James Fellow Award (2025); Guggenheim Fellowship1
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