Elizabeth A Phelps, PhD

Elizabeth "Liz" Phelps is Pershing Square Professor of Human Neuroscience at Harvard University. Her lab, The Human Neuroscience of Affect, Learning, and Decision-making researches the observation that emotions color our lives, and even subtle, everyday variations in our emotional experience can alter our thoughts and actions. By uncovering the impact of emotion and affect on cognition, she aims to both enhance our understanding of cognition broadly and provide insights into social processes...See more

Elizabeth "Liz" Phelps is Pershing Square Professor of Human Neuroscience at Harvard University. Her lab, The Human Neuroscience of Affect, Learning, and Decision-making researches the observation that emotions color our lives, and even subtle, everyday variations in our emotional experience can alter our thoughts and actions. By uncovering the impact of emotion and affect on cognition, she aims to both enhance our understanding of cognition broadly and provide insights into social processes and psychological disorders. Liz has won nearly every research award you can win for her research in emotion, cognition, and social and affective neuroscience (see her linked bio). Most recently she won the prestigious?George Miller Prize in Cognitive Neuroscience.?Liz has been the President for the Association for Psychological Science, the Social and Affective Neuroscience Society, and the Society for Neuroeconomics.?In addition to these prestigious appointments and awards, she has taught introductory psychology every year for the past 15 years using our? Psychological Science ?text.?Her students love her authoritative, direct, and engaging teaching style and she brings that experience to the revision of our text and media. See less