Tali Sharot is the director of the Affective Brain Lab. She is a Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience in the department of Experimental Psychology and The Max Planck UCL Centre for Computational Psychiatry at University College London and on the faculty of the Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences at MIT. Sharot is a Wellcome Trust Senior Research Fellow, holds a Wellcome Trust Discovery Award, is Head Section Editor (neuroscience) for Science Advances and former President of the Society of Neuroeconmics. Sharot’s research integrates neuroscience behavioral economics and psychology to study how emotion and motivation influences people’s beliefs and decisions. Prof. Sharot’s award winning books – The Optimism Bias (2011) , The Influential Mind (2017) and Look Again (2024, co-authored with Cass Sunstein) – have been praised by outlets including the NYT, Times, Forbes and more. In addition to her academic role, Sharot has served as a consultant for global companies and government projects, as well as on the board of several companies. Her two TED talks have been viewed more than 17 million times total. She has written multiple Op-Eds for the NYT, Time, Guardian, Washington Post, CNN and others. Sharot holds a BA in Economics and Psychology from Tel Aviv University and a PhD from New York University.
Sharot is currently Deputy Director of Graduate Studies at EP, UCL.
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Contact: t.sharot (at) ucl.ac.uk (email)