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Lisa Feldman Barrett

Lisa Feldman Barrett

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2025
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Psychology
USA
2026

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129
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365
National Ranking
221

Psychology

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133
Citations
87336
World Ranking
147
National Ranking
90

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Psychology in United States Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Best Female Scientists Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Psychology in United States Leader Award

Overview

Lisa Feldman Barrett is affiliated with Northeastern University in the United States. Their research primarily spans the fields of neuroscience and psychology, with significant contributions to cognitive neuroscience and experimental and cognitive psychology.

The scientist's work covers various specialized subfields including social psychology, psychiatry and mental health, and cardiology and cardiovascular medicine. They have focused on key topics such as functional brain connectivity studies, neural dynamics and brain function, mental health research topics, action observation and synchronization, embodied and extended cognition, face recognition and perception, and psychosomatic disorders and their treatments.

Frequent coauthors collaborating with Lisa Feldman Barrett include:

  • Karen S. Quigley
  • Jordan E. Theriault
  • Katie Hoemann
  • Ajay B. Satpute
  • Yuta Katsumi

Publication venues where they have frequently published are:

  • UNC Libraries
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Scientific Reports
  • Affective Science
  • Journal of Hepatology

Selected recent papers authored or coauthored by Lisa Feldman Barrett include:

  • "Functions of Interoception: From Energy Regulation to Experience of the Self," 2020, Trends in Neurosciences
  • "Seven and a Half Lessons about the Brain," 2022, Psych-Talk
  • "The sense of should: A biologically-based framework for modeling social pressure," 2020, Physics of Life Reviews
  • "Improving the study of brain-behavior relationships by revisiting basic assumptions," 2023, Trends in Cognitive Sciences
  • "A new science of emotion: implications for functional neurological disorder," 2022, Brain

Lisa Feldman Barrett has also contributed to academic book publications. One notable book is "Constructing Our World: The Brain's-Eye View," published in 2020 by Open Agenda Publishing eBooks.

Best Publications

  • Core affect, prototypical emotional episodes, and other things called emotion: dissecting the elephant.

    James A. Russell;Lisa Feldman Barrett

  • Adult Romantic Attachment: Theoretical Developments, Emerging Controversies, and Unanswered Questions

    R. Chris Fraley;Phillip R. Shaver

  • The brain basis of emotion: A meta-analytic review

    Kristen A. Lindquist;Tor D. Wager;Hedy Kober;Eliza Bliss-Moreau

  • How emotions are made: The secret life of the brain.

    Lisa Feldman Barrett

  • Psychological Resilience and Positive Emotional Granularity: Examining the Benefits of Positive Emotions on Coping and Health

    Michele M. Tugade;Barbara L. Fredrickson;Lisa Feldman Barrett

  • Solving the Emotion Paradox: Categorization and the Experience of Emotion

    Lisa Feldman Barrett

  • The Experience of Emotion

    Lisa Feldman Barrett;Batja Mesquita;Kevin N. Ochsner;James J. Gross

  • Are Emotions Natural Kinds

    Lisa Feldman Barrett

  • Independence and bipolarity in the structure of current affect.

    Lisa Feldman Barrett;James A. Russell

  • Interoceptive predictions in the brain

    Lisa Feldman Barrett;W. Kyle Simmons

  • Intimacy as an Interpersonal Process" The Importance of Self-Disclosure, Partner Disclosure, and Perceived Partner Responsiveness in Interpersonal Exchanges

    Jean-Philippe Laurenceau;Lisa Feldman Barrett;Paula R. Pietromonaco

  • The theory of constructed emotion: an active inference account of interoception and categorization.

    Lisa Feldman Barrett;Lisa Feldman Barrett

  • Emotional Expressions Reconsidered: Challenges to Inferring Emotion From Human Facial Movements:

    Lisa Feldman Barrett;Ralph Adolphs;Stacy Marsella;Stacy Marsella;Aleix M. Martinez

  • Knowing what you're feeling and knowing what to do about it: Mapping the relation between emotion differentiation and emotion regulation

    Lisa Feldman Barrett;James Gross;Tamlin Conner Christensen;Michael Benvenuto

  • The Structure of Current Affect Controversies and Emerging Consensus

    Lisa Feldman Barrett;James A. Russell

  • Functional grouping and cortical-subcortical interactions in emotion: a meta-analysis of neuroimaging studies.

    Hedy Kober;Lisa Feldman Barrett;Lisa Feldman Barrett;Joshua W. Joseph;Eliza Bliss-Moreau

  • Individual differences in working memory capacity and dual-process theories of the mind.

    Lisa Feldman Barrett;Michele M. Tugade;Randall W. Engle

  • Emotion Generation and Emotion Regulation: One or Two Depends on Your Point of View.

    James J. Gross;Lisa Feldman Barrett

  • Context in Emotion Perception

    Lisa Feldman Barrett;Lisa Feldman Barrett;Batja Mesquita;Maria Gendron

  • Discrete Emotions or Dimensions? The Role of Valence Focus and Arousal Focus

    Lisa Feldman Barrett

Frequent Co-Authors

Karen S. Quigley
Karen S. Quigley Northeastern University
Kristen A. Lindquist
Kristen A. Lindquist University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Moshe Bar
Moshe Bar Bar-Ilan University
Paula R. Pietromonaco
Paula R. Pietromonaco University of Massachusetts Amherst
Lawrence W. Barsalou
Lawrence W. Barsalou University of Glasgow
Naomi M. Simon
Naomi M. Simon New York University
W. Kyle Simmons
W. Kyle Simmons Oklahoma State University Center for Health Sciences
James J. Gross
James J. Gross Stanford University
Reginald B. Adams
Reginald B. Adams Pennsylvania State University

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