Kristen Lindquist

Kristen Lindquist is an Associate Professor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where she has appointments in the Department of Psychology and Neuroscience and the Biomedical Research Imaging Center in the School of Medicine. She directs the Carolina Affective Science Lab, which uses tools from behavioral science, physiology, and neuroscience to examine how our social worlds, bodies, and brains conspire to create emotions. She is interested in how emotions and emotion regulation varies across the age span, in health and disease, and across cultures. She received her PhD from Boston College and was a postdoctoral fellow at Harvard University and the Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging. Her research has been featured in the New York Times, Newsweek, Science magazine, Scientific American, the Guardian, LA Times, London Times, and other popular press outlets.