Lisa Feldman Barrett

==Biography==

==Biography==

Barrett was born in 1963 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, to a [[working poor]] family and was the first member of her extended family to attend university.<ref>{{Cite web|last=Scarantino|first=Andrea|date=November 2014|title=Lisa Feldman Barrett: Why Emotions Are Situated Conceptualizations|url=http://emotionresearcher.com/lisa-feldman-barrett-why-emotions-are-situated-conceptualizations/|website=Emotion Researcher}}</ref> After graduating from the University of Toronto with honors, she pursued a Ph.D. in [[clinical psychology]] at the University of Waterloo with the goal of becoming a therapist,<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Fischer|first=Shannon|date=June 25, 2013|title=About Face: Emotions and Facial Expressions May Not Be Related|url=https://www.bostonmagazine.com/news/2013/06/25/emotions-facial-expressions-not-related/|journal=Boston Magazine|pages=68–73}}</ref> until a frustrating puzzle sidetracked her from a clinical career. As a graduate student, she failed eight times to replicate a simple experiment, finally realizing that her seeming failed attempts were, in fact, successfully replicating a previously undiscovered phenomenon.<ref>{{Cite book|last=Barrett|first=Lisa Feldman|title=How Emotions are Made: The Secret Life of the Brain|publisher=Houghton Mifflin Harcourt|year=2017|isbn=978-0544133310|location=New York}}</ref> The resulting research direction became her life's work: understanding the nature of emotion in the brain.<ref>{{Cite web|last=Vander Woude|first=Megan|date=May 28, 2019|title=Mind Boggling|url=https://uwaterloo.ca/impact-stories/mind-boggling|website=University of Waterloo}}</ref> Following a clinical internship at the [[University of Manitoba]] Medical School, she held professorships in psychology at Penn State University, Boston College, and Northeastern University. Over two decades, she transitioned from clinical psychology into [[social psychology]], psychophysiology, [[cognitive science]], and cognitive neuroscience.<ref name=":0"/>

Barrett was born in 1963 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, to a [[working poor]] family and was the first member of her extended family to attend university.<ref>{{Cite web|last=Scarantino|first=Andrea|date=November 2014|title=Lisa Feldman Barrett: Why Emotions Are Situated Conceptualizations|url=http://emotionresearcher.com/lisa-feldman-barrett-why-emotions-are-situated-conceptualizations/|website=Emotion Researcher}}</ref> After graduating from the University of Toronto with honors, she pursued a Ph.D. in [[clinical psychology]] at the University of Waterloo with the goal of becoming a therapist,<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Fischer|first=Shannon|date=June 25, 2013|title=About Face: Emotions and Facial Expressions May Not Be Related|url=https://www.bostonmagazine.com/news/2013/06/25/emotions-facial-expressions-not-related/|journal=Boston Magazine|pages=68–73}}</ref> until a frustrating puzzle sidetracked her from a clinical career. As a graduate student, she failed eight times to replicate a simple experiment, finally realizing that her seeming failed attempts were, in fact, successfully replicating a previously undiscovered phenomenon.<ref>{{Cite book|last=Barrett|first=Lisa Feldman|title=How Emotions are Made: The Secret Life of the Brain|publisher=Houghton Mifflin Harcourt|year=2017|isbn=978-0544133310|location=New York}}</ref> The resulting research direction became her life's work: understanding the nature of emotion in the brain.<ref>{{Cite web|last=Vander Woude|first=Megan|date=May 28, 2019|title=Mind Boggling|url=https://uwaterloo.ca/impact-stories/mind-boggling|website=University of Waterloo}}</ref> Following a clinical internship at the [[University of Manitoba]] Medical School, she held professorships in psychology at Penn State University, Boston College, and Northeastern University.[https://cos.northeastern.edu/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/LFB-current-CV.pdf] Over two decades, she transitioned from clinical psychology into [[social psychology]], psychophysiology, [[cognitive science]], and cognitive neuroscience.<ref name=":0"/>

Barrett is most inspired by [[William James]], [[Wilhelm Wundt]], and [[Charles Darwin]].<ref>{{Cite news|last=Sutton|first=Jon|date=April 2017|title=Many fairy tales about the brain still propagate through our field|work=The Psychologist|url=https://thepsychologist.bps.org.uk/volume-30/april-2017/many-fairy-tales-about-brain-still-propagate-through-our-field}}</ref> In 2019–2020, she served as president of the [[Association for Psychological Science]].<ref>{{Cite news|last=Nicodemo|first=Allie|date=May 11, 2018|title=Northeastern Professor Named President-Elect for the Association of Psychological Science|work=News@Northeastern|url=https://news.northeastern.edu/2018/05/11/northeastern-professor-named-president-elect-for-the-association-of-psychological-science/}}</ref> From 2018–2025, she was ranked in the top one percent of the most-cited scientists in the world over a ten-year period.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Six Northeastern Professors Named to 2019 List of 'Highly Cited Researchers' Around the Globe|url=https://cos.northeastern.edu/news/six-northeastern-professors-named-to-2019-list-of-highly-cited-researchers-around-the-globe/|access-date=2020-09-24|website=Northeastern University College of Science|language=en-US}}</ref>

Barrett is most inspired by [[William James]], [[Wilhelm Wundt]], and [[Charles Darwin]].<ref>{{Cite news|last=Sutton|first=Jon|date=April 2017|title=Many fairy tales about the brain still propagate through our field|work=The Psychologist|url=https://thepsychologist.bps.org.uk/volume-30/april-2017/many-fairy-tales-about-brain-still-propagate-through-our-field}}</ref> In 2019–2020, she served as president of the [[Association for Psychological Science]].<ref>{{Cite news|last=Nicodemo|first=Allie|date=May 11, 2018|title=Northeastern Professor Named President-Elect for the Association of Psychological Science|work=News@Northeastern|url=https://news.northeastern.edu/2018/05/11/northeastern-professor-named-president-elect-for-the-association-of-psychological-science/}}</ref> From 2018–2025, she was ranked in the top one percent of the most-cited scientists in the world over a ten-year period.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Six Northeastern Professors Named to 2019 List of 'Highly Cited Researchers' Around the Globe|url=https://cos.northeastern.edu/news/six-northeastern-professors-named-to-2019-list-of-highly-cited-researchers-around-the-globe/|access-date=2020-09-24|website=Northeastern University College of Science|language=en-US}}</ref>