Lisa Feldman Barrett is a Canadian-American psychologist and Distinguished Professor of psychology at Northeastern University, where she focuses on affective science and co-directs the Interdisciplinary Affective Science Laboratory. She received the William James Fellow Award from the Association for Psychological Science for 2025 and the Award for Distinguished Scientific Contributions from the American Psychological Association for 2021, as well as a Guggenheim Fellowship. With James Gross she founded the Society for Affective Science.
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United States, Canada
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How Emotions are Made: The Secret Life of the Brain. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2017
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1963
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Lisa Feldman Barrett is a Canadian-American psychologist.
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She has received the William James Fellow Award from the Association for Psychological Science for 2025
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The theory of constructed emotion (formerly the conceptual act model of emotion) is a theory in affective science proposed by Lisa Feldman Barrett to explain the experience and perception of emotion.
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