Lisa Feldman Barrett

Lisa Feldman Barrett, Ph.D., is professor in the department of Psychology at Boston College in Boston, and an Assistant in Research at Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School.

Dr. Barrett is a social psychologist and researcher specializing in affective science and human emotion. Her main research is on the structure of affect, having developed experience-sampling methods and software to study emotional experience.

In 2006, Dr. Barrett received a Career Trajectory Award from the Society for Experimental Social Psychology for her work in emotion. She is also a Fellow of the Association for Psychological Science, the American Psychological Association, and the Society for Personality and Social Psychology.

Dr. Barrett was born 1963 in Toronto, Canada.