Born in Toronto, Canada in 1963, Barrett obtained her Bachelor of Science in Psychology with Honors at the University of Toronto. From there she completed a Doctor of Philosophy in Clinical Psychology at the University of Waterloo, in Ontario, Canada, and a Clinical Internship at the University of Manitoba Medical School. During her graduate training, Barrett developed her current hypothesis on emotion, the conceptual-act model of emotion.
She is director of the Interdisciplinary Affective Science Laboratory. Along with James Russell, she is the founding editor-in-chief of the journal Emotion Review. At the beginning of her career, Doctor "s research focused on the structure of affect, having developed experience-sampling methods and open-source software to study emotional experience.
Doctor and members at IASL study the nature of emotion broadly from social-psychological, psychophysiological, cognitive science, and neuroscience perspectives, and take inspiration from anthropology, philosophy, and linguistics.
They also explore the role of emotion in vision and other psychological phenomena., L., L., L., L., L. F., L. F., L. F., &, Doctorate. J.
Diener Award in Social Psychology, Society for Personality and Social Psychology, 2014. Elected Fellow, Society of Experimental Psychologists, 2013. Award for Distinguished Service in Psychological Science, American Psychological Association, 2013. Elected Fellow, Royal Society of Canada, 2012. Excellence in Research and Creative Activity Award, Northeastern University, 2012 Arts in Academics award, University of Waterloo, 2010 Elected Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science, 2008 Kavli Fellow in the Frontiers of Science Program, National Academy of Sciences, Frontiers of Science 2008 National Institutes of Health Director"s Pioneer Award, 2007-2012. Career Trajectory Award, Society of Experimental Social Psychology 2006 Elected Fellow, American Psychological Association, 2005 Elected Fellow, Society for Personality and Social Psychology, 2005. Elected fellow, Association for Psychological Science, 2003 Independent Scientist Research (K02) Award, National Institute of Mental Health 2002-2007.
