Kristen A. Lindquist is the Robert K. and Dale J. Weary Chair in Social Psychology. She received her A.B. in Psychology and English from Boston College in 2004 and her PhD in Psychology from Boston College in 2010. From 2010-2012, Dr. Lindquist was a Mind/Brain/Behavior Initiative postdoctoral fellow at Harvard University, where she had appointments in Neurology and the Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging in the School of Medicine and in Psychology in the College of Arts and Sciences. She began her career as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychology and Neuroscience at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 2012, was promoted to Associate Professor in 2018, and to Professor in 2022. 

Dr. Lindquist’s research seeks to understand the psychological and neural basis of emotions, moods, feelings, and ultimately, health and wellness. Her on-going work uses tools from social cognition, physiology, neuroscience, and big data methods to examine how emotions emerge from the confluence of the body, brain, and cultural learning across the lifespan. 

 

Select Publications:

Feldman, M.J., Bliss-Moreau, E. & Lindquist, K.A. (2024). Linking interoception and emotion. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 28, 643-661.

Atzil, S., Satpute, A.,B., Zhang, J., Parrish, M.H., Shablack, H., MacCormack, J.K., Leshin, J.C., Goel, S., Brooks, J.A., Xu, Y., Kang, J. & Lindquist, K.A. (2023). The impact of sociality and affective valence on brain activation: A meta-analysis. NeuroImage, 268, 119879.

Lindquist, K.A., Jackson, J.C., Leshin, J. Satpute, A.B. & Gendron, M. (2022). The cultural evolution of emotion. Nature Reviews Psychology, 1, 669-681.

Jackson, J.C., Watts, J., Henry, T.R., List, J.M., Forkel, R., Mucha, P.J., Greenhill, S.J., Gray, R.D. & Lindquist, K.A. (2019). Emotion semantics show both cultural variation and universal structure. Science, 366, 1517-1522.

Lindquist, K.A., Satpute, A.B., & Gendron, M. (2015). Does language do more than communicate emotion? Current Directions in Psychological Science, 24, 99-108.

Lindquist, K.A., Wager, T.D., Kober, H., Bliss-Moreau, E., & Barrett, L.F. (2012). The brain basis of emotion: A meta-analytic review. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 35, 121-143.

Lindquist, K.A., & Barrett, L.F. (2008). Constructing emotion: The experience of fear as a conceptual act. Psychological Science, 19, 898-903.