Tali Sharot

About Tali Sharot

Tali Sharot is the director of the Affective Brain Lab. She is a Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience in the department of Experimental Psychology and The Max Planck UCL Centre for Computational Psychiatry at University College London and on the faculty of the Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences at MIT. Tali’s research integrates neuroscience behavioural economics and psychology to study how emotion and motivation influences people’s beliefs and decisions. Currently, Sharot is a Wellcome Trust Senior Research Fellow, Head Section Editor (neuroscience) for Science Advances and President of the Society of Neuroeconomics.

Tali’s award winning books include The Optimism Bias (2011) and The Influential Mind (2017). Her latest book, co-authored with Cass Sunstein, Look Again: The Power of Noticing What was Always There was published in February 2024. Her two TED talks have been viewed more than 15 million times. She has written multiple Op-Eds for the NYT, Time, Guardian, Washington Post, CNN and others.