Lisa Feldman Barrett

Researcher

University Distinguished Professor at Northeastern whose lab studies the brain, body, emotion, thought, and action. Her work tests what feelings can tell people about events.

Barrett holds a top faculty post at Northeastern. Her lab asks how the brain and body link feeling, thought, will, and action. [1]

Her peers and public funders have praised the work. She won an NIH award for bold research and an American Psychological Association award for scientific contribution. [1]

Barrett wrote How Emotions Are Made. [2]

Trust her on feeling, emotion, and the brain. This work is near management, but it does not test firms. It should not be used to label staff or turn hard social issues into brain talk. [1] [2]

1
Northeastern University College of Science, “Lisa Feldman Barrett,” accessed September 2, 2026.
https://cos.northeastern.edu/people/lisa-barrett/
2
Lisa Feldman Barrett, How Emotions Are Made (Boston: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2017).