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Lawrence Barsalou is a Professor of Psychology at the University of Glasgow's School of Psychology & Neuroscience. Previously, he held faculty positions at Emory University, Georgia Institute of Technology, and the University of Chicago. His research focuses on grounded cognition, exploring how human conceptual systems are shaped by sensory and motor experiences. Notably, he investigates health cognition through this lens, emphasizing situated assessment methods to study habitual behaviors and emotional experiences. His work bridges cognitive science, neuroscience, and psychology, with a particular interest in cross-cultural implications of conceptual processing. He leads the Barsalou Lab, which develops tools like the Situated Assessment Method (SAM2) to evaluate behavioral patterns and health-related decision-making.
Education: B.A. in Psychology from University of California, San Diego (1977); Ph.D. in Psychology from Stanford University (1981). His research spans topics such as eustress measurement, climate change emotional impacts, and neural correlates of action semantics. Collaborations with institutions worldwide highlight his global influence in cognitive science.
Research interests include conceptual systems, embodied cognition, and the application of grounded theories to health behaviors. His lab's frameworks like SAM2 assess habitual behaviors in contexts ranging from water intake to trichotillomania. Future work continues to explore how situated features influence perception, emotion, and decision-making across diverse populations and cultural settings.
