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Tali Sharot, Ph.D.

Tali Sharot, Ph.D.

Tali Sharot, Ph.D., is the director of the Affective Brain Lab and a faculty member of the Department of Cognitive Perpetual and Brain Sciences at University College London. Her research focuses on how emotion, motivation and social factors influence our expectations, decisions and memories. She is the author of The Optimism Bias.

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