Lisa Feldman Barrett

About

Lisa Feldman Barrett is a University Distinguished Professor at Northeastern University with appointments at the Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH). Her research involves developing a systems-level model of brain and body mechanisms to unify human affect, emotion, motivation, cognition, and action. She takes a multidisciplinary approach, incorporating methods and concepts from psychology, neuroscience, physiology, anthropology, philosophy, linguistics, evolutionary and developmental biology, computer science, engineering, and the history of science. Dr. Barrett has received numerous awards, including an NIH Director’s Pioneer Award for transformative research, the Mentor Award for Lifetime Achievement from the Association for Psychological Science (APS), and the Distinguished Scientific Contribution Award from the American Psychological Association (APA). She is an elected fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the Royal Society of Canada, and other honorific societies, and has served as a former president of the APS. Her work has been recognized as highly influential, with her inclusion among the top one percent most cited scientists in the world. She actively engages in public science education through popular books, articles, and public lectures, and has testified before the US Congress.

Research topics

• Psychology
• Neuroscience
• Computer Science
• Cognitive psychology
• Cognitive science
• Social psychology
• Sociology
• Artificial Intelligence
• Social Science
• Communication

Selected publications

• Functions of Interoception: From Energy Regulation to Experience of the Self

  Trends in Neurosciences · 2020 · 287 citations

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• The sense of should: A biologically-based framework for modeling social pressure

  Physics of Life Reviews · 2020 · 170 citations

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• Improving the study of brain-behavior relationships by revisiting basic assumptions

  Trends in Cognitive Sciences · 2023 · 157 citations

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  Neuroimaging research has been at the forefront of concerns regarding the failure of experimental findings to replicate. In the study of brain-behavior relationships, past failures to find replicable and robust effects have been attributed to methodological shortcomings. Methodological rigor is important, but there are other overlooked possibilities: most published studies share three foundational assumptions, often implicitly, that may be faulty. In this paper, we consider the empirical evidenc…

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• The Future of Women in Psychological Science

  Perspectives on Psychological Science · 2020 · 137 citations

  There has been extensive discussion about gender gaps in representation and career advancement in the sciences. However, psychological science itself has yet to be the focus of discussion or systematic review, despite our field's investment in questions of equity, status, well-being, gender bias, and gender disparities. In the present article, we consider 10 topics relevant for women's career advancement in psychological science. We focus on issues that have been the subject of empirical study,…

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• A human colliculus-pulvinar-amygdala pathway encodes negative emotion

  Neuron · 2021 · 82 citations

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Recent grants

• The Affective Vision Hypothesis

  NSF · $300k · 2011–2015

• Biopsychosocial Mechanisms of Successful Aging

  NIH · $3.9M · 2022–2027

• Affect regulation and Beta Amyloid: Maturational Factors in Aging and Age-Related Pathology

  NIH · $4.2M · 2017–2024

Frequent coauthors

• Bradford C. Dickerson

  Massachusetts General Hospital

  321 shared

• Karen S. Quigley

  Northeastern University

  291 shared

• Alexandra Touroutoglou

  279 shared

• Joseph M. Andreano

  Massachusetts General Hospital

  147 shared

• Jordan E. Theriault

  Athinoula A. Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging

  116 shared

• Moshe Bar

  100 shared

• Kestutis Kveraga

  Hadassah Medical Center

  99 shared

• Ajay B. Satpute

  97 shared

Education

• Ph.D., Psychology

  University of Texas at Austin

  1996

• M.A., Psychology

  University of Texas at Austin

  1993

• B.A., Psychology

  University of Texas at Austin

  1990

Awards & honors

• NIH Director’s Pioneer Award for transformative research
• Mentor Award for Lifetime Achievement from the Association f…
• Distinguished Scientific Contribution Award from the America…
• Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
• Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada

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