Lisa Feldman Barrett is University Distinguished Professor of Psychology at Northeastern University, with research appointments in the psychiatry and radiology departments at Massachusetts General Hospital. For the past several years, Barrett has been among the top 1 percent most-cited scientists worldwide for her research in psychology and neuroscience, having published more than 280 peer-reviewed scientific papers that have been cited more than 100,000 times.
She has received numerous awards, including a Director’s Pioneer Award for transformative research from the U.S. National Institutes of Health, a Guggenheim Fellowship in neuroscience, Mentor Awards from the Association for Psychological Science and the Society for Affective Science, the Distinguished Scientific Contribution Award from the American Psychological Association and the William James Fellow Award for lifetime scientific contributions from the Association for Psychological Science. 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 U.S. Congress, is chief science officer for the Center for Law, Brain and Behavior at Massachusetts General Hospital, has served as president of the Association for Psychological Science and co-founded the Society for Affective Science.
Barret 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 TED talk has been viewed more than 7 million times to date. Colleagues have called Barrett “the William James of our time” and “the deepest thinker on [the nature of emotion] since Darwin.”
