The Impact of Everyday Emotion

Phelps’s career as an independent scientist began with one simple insight: everyday variation in emotional experience can influence how we learn, remember, and decide. In this talk, she will review the path her career has taken as she explored the role in emotion in cognition. She will highlight how her career was influenced by her mentors’ research and the trends in psychological science. She will also review major findings from her career and discuss how they shifted her research approach. Finally, she will highlight the contribution of a few key collaborators in changing her science for the better.