Kent C. Berridge

Kent C. Berridge is a psychologist and neuroscientist whose research focuses on brain mechanisms of affect, emotion, and motivation. He is currently the James Olds Distinguished University Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience at the University of Michigan. Berridge earned a B.S. degree from the University of California at Davis (1979) and a Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania (1983), and received an honorary D.Sc. degree from the University of Sussex in U.K. (2020). Among academic honors, he has been a Guggenheim Fellow and Fulbright Senior Scholar, and has received the APS William James Fellow Lifetime Achievement Award from the Association for Psychological Science, the APA Distinguished Scientific Contributions award from the American Psychological Association, and the Grawemeyer Award for Outstanding Ideas in Psychology (the latter two awards shared with Terry E. Robinson).