Alison Wood Brooks

American psychologist and Harvard Business School professor — author of Talk — who studies conversation science and negotiation — whose research on anxiety reappraisal (reframing nervousness as excitement) is among the most cited in communication psychology.

Creates the anxiety-as-excitement reappraisal research — Brooks's finding (that telling yourself you're excited rather than nervous before a performance improves outcomes) is one of the most practically useful findings in communication psychology and is now standard in public speaking training.