Lisa Feldman Barrett, PhD, is a University Distinguished Professor of Psychology at Northeastern University, with appointments at Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts General Hospital. In addition to the book How Emotions are Made: The Secret Life of the Brain, Dr. Barrett has published over 200 peer-reviewed, scientific papers appearing in Science, Nature Neuroscience, and other top journals in psychology and cognitive neuroscience, as well as six academic volumes published by Guilford Press. She has also given a popular TED talk.
Dr. Barrett received a National Institutes of Health Director’s Pioneer Award for her revolutionary research on emotion in the brain. These highly competitive, multimillion dollar awards are given to scientists of exceptional creativity who are expected to transform biomedical and behavioral research.
Among her many accomplishments, Dr. Barrett has testified before Congress, presented her research to the FBI, consulted to the National Cancer Institute, appeared on Through The Wormhole with Morgan Freeman and The Today Show with Maria Shriver, and been a featured guest on public television and worldwide radio programs. She is also an elected fellow of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences and the Royal Society of Canada.
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Lisa Feldman Barrett, PhD, is a University Distinguished Professor of Psychology at Northeastern University, with appointments at Harvard Medical School a...
In this talk, we’ll explore a series of experiments about emotion whose conclusions seem to defy common sense....
PowerPoint slides for Lisa Feldman-Barrett's Keynote presentation at the 2019 Harvard Medical School Coaching in Leadership and Healthcare Conference....
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Slide presentation to accompany Dr....
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A new theory of how the brain constructs emotions that could revolutionize psychology, health care, the legal system, and our understanding of the...
A short clip from Lisa Feldman Barrett's Conference Interview where she discusses the surprising amount of flexibility available to us when creating meani...
Abstract: The science of emotion has been using folk psychology categories derived from philosophy to search for the brain basis...
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