Lisa Feldman Barrett

Lisa Feldman Barrett
Born 1963
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Residence Boston, Massachusetts, United States
Citizenship United States
Nationality Canadian
Fields Cognitive neuroscience, psychology
Institutions Northeastern University, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston College, Pennsylvania State University
Alma mater University of Toronto, University of Waterloo
Thesis  (1992)
Doctoral advisor Mike Ross
Known for Conceptual-act model of emotion
Notable awards NIH Director's Pioneer Award
Spouse Daniel J. Barrett
Website
www.affective-science.org

Lisa Feldman Barrett is a University Distinguished Professor of Psychology at Northeastern University,[1] where she focuses on the study of emotion.[2] She is director of the Interdisciplinary Affective Science Laboratory. Along with James Russell, she is the founding editor-in-chief of the journal Emotion Review.[3]

Education

Born in Toronto, Canada in 1963, Barrett obtained her Bachelor of Science in Psychology with Honors at the University of Toronto. From there she completed a Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology at the University of Waterloo, in Ontario, Canada, and a Clinical Internship at the University of Manitoba Medical School. During her graduate training, Barrett developed her current hypothesis on emotion, the conceptual-act model of emotion.

Professional history

At the beginning of her career, Dr. Barrett's research focused on the structure of affect, having developed experience-sampling methods[4] and open-source software to study emotional experience. Dr. Barrett and members at IASL study the nature of emotion broadly from social-psychological, psychophysiological, cognitive science, and neuroscience perspectives, and take inspiration from anthropology, philosophy, and linguistics. They also explore the role of emotion in vision and other psychological phenomena.

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