Lisa Feldman Barrett | |
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Born | 1963 (age 60–61) Toronto, Ontario, Canada |
Nationality | Canadian |
Citizenship | United States, Canada |
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Known for | Theory of constructed emotion |
Spouse | Daniel J. Barrett |
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Thesis | On the failure to differentiate anxiety and depression in self-report (1992) |
Doctoral advisor | Mike Ross |
Doctoral students | Tamlin Conner |
Website | lisafeldmanbarrett |
Lisa Feldman Barrett is a Canadian-American psychologist. She is a University Distinguished Professor of psychology at Northeastern University,[1] where she focuses on affective science[2] and co-directs the Interdisciplinary Affective Science Laboratory.[3] She has received both of the highest scientific honors in the field of psychology, the William James Fellow Award from the Association for Psychological Science for 2025,[4] and the Award for Distinguished Scientific Contributions from the American Psychological Association for 2021.[5] Along with James Russell, she is the founding editor-in-chief of the journal Emotion Review.[6] Along with James Gross, she founded the Society for Affective Science.