Lisa Feldman Barrett, Ph.D, the University Distinguished Professor of Psychology and Director of the Interdisciplinary Affective Science Laboratory (IASLab) at Northeastern University, spoke on October 29, 2018, at UVA's Rotunda.
Barrett's research focuses on the nature of emotion from both psychological and neuroscience perspectives. She has been called the most important affective scientist of our time and the deepest thinker on the nature of emotion since Darwin. Barrett has been honored with election to numerous scientific societies, including the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the Royal Society of Canada.

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