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I am a psychologist at the Massachusetts General Hospital Department of Psychiatry where I head the Program in Aesthetics and Well Being,

as well as an Assistant Clinical Professor at Harvard Medical School. My  main areas of study and research are the neuroscience of emotion and the science of

beauty. I teach two seminars to Harvard undergraduates on the science of happiness, and have written extensively about beauty,

including the book Survivial of the Prettiest: The Science of Beauty, published by Random House in 1999.  I maintain a private

practice in clinical psychology. I graduated from Brown University, have a  Master's in Education from Harvard University, a Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology from Boston University, and completed a postdoctoral fellowship in cognitive neuroscience at MIT.