Tali Sharot
Tali Sharot
Tali Sharot | |
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| Nationality | Israeli, British, American |
| Alma mater | New York University, Tel Aviv University |
| Occupation | Professor of cognitive neuroscience |
| Employer | University College London |
Tali Sharot is a Professor of cognitive neuroscience in the department of Experimental Psychology at University College London. She received her Ph.D in psychology and neuroscience from New York University.[1] Dr. Sharot is known for her research on the neural basis of emotion, decision making and optimism.[2]
Tali Sharot | |
|---|---|
| Nationality | Israeli, British, American |
| Alma mater | New York University, Tel Aviv University |
| Occupation | Professor of cognitive neuroscience |
| Employer | University College London |
Scientific contributions
Sharot is especially known for her discovery of the neural underpinnings of human optimism,[3] work that has been published in numerous eminent journals.[4][5] In her books The Optimism Bias[6] and The Science of Optimism, she describes the evolutionary benefits of unrealistic optimism along with its dangers.[7] Richard Stengel has written in a Time editorial that Sharot’s work gives us a better grip on how we function in reality.[8] The implications of Sharot’s discoveries for health,[9] finance,[10] cyber security,[11] policy and more have been extensively covered by the media and she is often featured on radio,[12][13] TV[14][15][16] and in the written press.[2][17][9] In 2017 her book The Influential Mind: What the Brain Reveals About Our Power to Change Others was published highlighting the critical role of emotion in influence and the weakness of data [18]. It was selected as a Best Book of 2017 by Forbes, The Times UK, The Huffington Post, Bloomberg, Greater Good Magazine, Inc., Stanford Business School among others.[19]. Sharot was one of the presenters on the Dara Ó Briain's Science Club, who also introduced her on stage at The Royal Albert Hall's Imagining the future of Medicine in 2014.[20] She was a speaker at TED2012.[21]
Awards and recognition
Sharot received prestigious fellowships from the Wellcome Trust, the Forum of European Philosophy and the British Academy. She won the British Psychological Society Book award for 2014 (for The Optimism Bias) and 2018 (for The Influential Mind).[22][23] She has been described as "one of the top female scientists in her country"[1] listed as one of the 15 exemplary female Israeli-born scientists alive.[24] Her TED 2012 talk has been viewed over 2 million times.[25]