Emily Balcetis
Social psychologist and professor
Emily Balcetis is an American social psychologist at New York University. She studies how motivation and emotion shape the way people see the world.
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About Emily Balcetis
Emily Balcetis is an associate professor of psychology at New York University. She earned her PhD at Cornell University in 2006. Her research looks at how people's goals, motivations and emotions affect perception, especially what they see with their eyes. She has written more than seventy scientific publications and has received awards from several scientific societies. She has lectured at universities including Harvard, Princeton and Yale, and her TEDx New York talk has been viewed by several million people. Her book in our catalog is Clearer, Closer, Better.