Dr. Tali Sharot Biography

Dr. Tali Sharot is a leading expert on human decision-making optimism and emotion. She combines research in psychology behavioral economics and neuroscience to reveal the forces that shape our decisions beliefs and expectations of the future. Sharot is a faculty member of the Department of Cognitive Perceptual and Brain Sciences at University College London. She served as a visiting professor at MIT and founded & directed the Affective Brain Lab at University College London where her team researched ways to encourage behavioral change that will enhance well-being. Her research seeks explanations for otherwise opaque qualities of the human brain. Why do people discount bad news—a tendency that contributed to the 2008 financial downfall weakens our ability to manage disaster and lets us skip important medical screenings? Why do we underestimate our chances of divorce or expect our kids to be uniquely talented? Dr. Tali Sharot explores these and further questions in her books The Influential Mind: What the brain reveals about our power to change other and the The Optimism Bias: A Tour of the Irrationally Positive brain. Her papers have been published in top scientific journals including Nature Science and Nature Neuroscience. This work has been the subject of features inNewsweek Forbes The Boston Globe Time The Wall Street Journal New Scientist The Washington Post CNN the BBC and others. She has also written essays for the popular press which have been published in Time (cover story) The New York Times and BBC and was a speaker at TED’s annual conference 2012. She received her Ph.D from New York University.

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