Neil Garrett

Neil Garrett is a Henry Wellcome Research Fellow in Cognitive Neuroscience at Oxford University. His research centres around aversive behaviour and learning. As part of this, he has led a new line of enquiry examining the role of emotional adaptation in decision making. This revealed that the neural process of adaptation – a reduction in brain responses over time – occurs when immoral actions are repeated, and that this process leads undesirable behaviour to increase as a consequence. The findings have helped identify interventions that could curb immoral behaviour in different domains (such as finance and public policy). He gained his BSc in Economics and Philosophy from the London School of Economics, and PhD in Experimental Psychology from University College London.