Tali Sharot Biography

The leading authority on human decision-making, optimism, and emotion is Tali Sharot. Sharot, a neurologist by training, integrates studies in psychology, behavioral economics, and neuroscience to provide light on the factors that influence our choices, beliefs, and unrealistic expectations for the future, as well as how to change them (or sustain them). For example, why do individuals disregard negative news (a propensity that increased ill-preparedness in the face of calamity, decreased medical checkups, and led to the financial collapse of 2008)? Why do we underestimate the likelihood of being divorced and assume that our children will have unique talents? Why is it so challenging to reverse a choice once it has been made? Sharon, a professor at University College London and a visiting professor at Harvard Medical School right now, is in charge of the Affective Brain Lab, where her team is devoted to finding the answers to such questions to find strategies for promoting behavioral change that improves wellbeing. The Science of Optimism (TED, e-book), The Optimism Bias: A Tour of the Irrationally Positive Brain (Pantheon/ Random House, 2011), and The Neuroscience of Preference and Choice (co-edited with Sharot) are among his works (Elsevier). She has been highlighted on CNN, MSNBC, The Science Channel, the BBC, and several international newspapers. Sharot co-hosted BBC's Science Club as well (BBC 2). She also penned the covers for The Observer Review, The Guardian, The Washington Post Health Section, and a New York Times Op-Ed in addition to TIME magazine's The Science of Optimism (May 2011). Sharot has delivered keynote speeches to a wide range of business and governmental organizations, including those in insurance, money management, marketing, gaming, social entrepreneurship, the arts, health and safety, mental health, and academics. She has given several public speeches, including one at TED2012.

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