Lisa Barrett

Lisa Feldman Barrett, born in 1963 in Toronto, Canada, is a renowned psychologist and neuroscientist who earned her PhD in clinical psychology from the University of Waterloo and has held professorships at Penn State, Boston College, and Northeastern University, where she is University Distinguished Professor and Director of the Interdisciplinary Affective Science Laboratory.[1][2][3] Her research revolutionized the understanding of emotion, leading to over 275 peer-reviewed papers and popular books like *How Emotions Are Made* (2017) and *Seven and a Half Lessons About the Brain* (2020).[1][3] She holds appointments at Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts General Hospital, and has received prestigious awards including a NIH Director’s Pioneer Award and Guggenheim Fellowship.[3]