Lisa Feldman Barrett

Lisa Feldman Barrett
Born 1963
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Residence Boston, Massachusetts, United States
Nationality Canadian
Citizenship United States
Alma mater University of Toronto, University of Waterloo
Known for Theory of constructed emotion
Spouse(s) Daniel J. Barrett
Awards NIH Director's Pioneer Award
Scientific career
Fields Cognitive neuroscience, psychology
Institutions Northeastern University, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston College, Pennsylvania State University
Thesis  (1992)
Doctoral advisor Mike Ross
Website lisafeldmanbarrett.com, 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 a 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

Barrett was born in Toronto, Ontario, Canada in 1963. Barrett obtained her Bachelor of Science in Psychology with Honors at the University of Toronto. Barrett 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 the initial insights for her current theory of constructed 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.

In 1996 she joined the Psychology Faculty at Boston College. Before that she was an Assistant Professor of Clinical Psychology at The Pennsylvania State University.

Her research focuses on the main issues in the science of emotions such as:

  • What are the basic building blocks of emotional life?
  • Why is it that people are able to quickly and effortlessly perceive anger, sadness, fear in themselves and in others, yet scientists have been unable to specify a set of clear criteria for empirically identifying these emotional events?
  • What roles do language and conceptual knowledge play in emotion perception?
  • Are there really differences between the emotional lives of men and women?

Honors and awards

Selected publications

Books

  • How Emotions are Made: The Secret Life of the Brain. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2017. ISBN 0544133315.
    • British English edition published by Macmillan, 2017. ISBN 1509837493.
    • Korean edition (감정은 어떻게 만들어지는가?) published by Korea Price Information, 2017. ISBN 9791188096428.
    • Polish edition (Jak powstają emocje. Sekretne życie mózgu) published by CeDeWu, 2018. ISBN 9788381020275.
    • Romanian edition (Cum iau nastere emotiile: Viata secreta a creierului) published by Editura ASCR, 2018. ISBN 9786069770139.
    • Spanish edition (La Vida Secreta del Cerebro: Cómo se construyen las emociones) published by Ediciones Paidos, 2018. ISBN 9788449334252.
    • Turkish edition (Beynimizin Parmak Izerli: Duyguların ve Aklın Gizemli Oykusu) published by Timas Yayinlari, 2018. ISBN 9786050827217.
    • Editions in press: China, Japan, Russia, Sweden, Ukraine.

Selected academic papers

  • Barrett, L. F. (2017). The theory of constructed emotion: An active inference account of interoception and categorization. Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, doi: 10.1093/scan/nsw154.
  • Barrett, L. F., & Bar, M. (2009). See it with feeling: Affective predictions in the human brain. Royal Society Phil Trans B, 364, 1325-1334.
  • Barrett, L. F., & Bliss-Moreau, E. (2009). Affect as a psychological primitive. Advances in Experimental Social Psychology, 41, 167-218.
  • Barrett, L. F., Lindquist, K., Bliss-Moreau, E., Duncan, S., Gendron, M., Mize, J., & Brennan, L. (2007). Of mice and men: Natural kinds of emotion in the mammalian brain? Perspectives on Psychological Science, 2, 297-312
  • Barrett, L. F., Lindquist, K., & Gendron, M. (2007). Language as a context for emotion perception. Trends in Cognitive Sciences. 11, 327-332.
  • Barrett, L. F. (2006). Emotions as natural kinds? Perspectives on Psychological Science, 1, 28-58.
  • Barrett, L. F. (2006). Solving the emotion paradox: Categorization and the experience of emotion. Personality and Social Psychology Review, 10, 20-46.
  • Barrett, L. F., & Barrett, D. J. (2001). Computerized experience-sampling: How technology facilitates the study of conscious experience. Social Science Computer Review, 19, 175-185.
  • Feldman, L. A. (1995b). Valence focus and arousal focus: Individual differences in the structure of affective experience. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 69, 153-166

See also

References

  1. ↑ "Northeastern University Psychology Department". neu.edu.
  2. ↑ "The Faces and Minds of Psychological Science". psychologicalscience.org.
  3. ↑ Emotion Review
  4. ↑ Hektner, Joel M.; Jennifer A. Schmidt; Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi (September 2006). Experience Sampling Method: Measuring the Quality of Everyday Life.. SAGE Publications. p. 37 et al. ISBN 1-4129-4923-8.
  5. ↑ "Northeastern Professor Named President-Elect for the Association of Psychological Science". northeastern.edu. May 2018.
  6. ↑ "Lisa Feldman Barrett elected to American Academy of Arts and Sciences". northeastern.edu. April 2018.
  7. ↑ "APS Mentor Award". psychologicalscience.org.
  8. ↑ "Heritage Fund Initiative". www.foundationpsp.org.
  9. ↑ "Home - SPSP". www.spsp.org.
  10. ↑ "Lisa Feldman Barrett and Frederick Leong receive APA Distinguished Service Awards". www.apa.org. January 2014.
  11. ↑ "Academic Honors Convocation - Northeastern University". Academic Honors Convocation.
  12. ↑ "Home - Arts". uwaterloo.ca. 15 January 2013.
  13. ↑ Kavli Frontiers of Science
  14. ↑ Pioneer award announcement Archived 2007-10-02 at the Wayback Machine.
  15. ↑ "2006 Career Trajectory Award". sesp.org.
  16. ↑ "Association for Psychological Science: APS Fellows". www.psychologicalscience.org.
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