Dr Lisa Feldman Barrett

American neuroscientist at Northeastern University whose theory of constructed emotion — arguing that emotions are not universal hardwired responses but are constructed by the brain through prediction — represents one of the most significant challenges to the classical view of emotion in psychology.

Developed the theory of constructed emotion — that the brain is a prediction machine that constructs emotional experiences based on past experience and cultural context rather than reading built-in emotional circuits — which has profound implications for clinical psychology, law, education, and AI.