Jennifer M. B. Fugate

Jennifer M. B. Fugate, Ph.D., is an associate professor in the Department of Health Service Psychology at Kansas City University. She earned her doctorate in comparative cognition from Emory University and studies emotion perception, language, embodied cognition, and learning. She also directs the ABLE (Affect, Behavior, Learning, and Embodiment) Lab and is a certified Facial Action Coder.

Fugate co-edited Movement Matters: How Embodied Cognition Informs Teaching and Learning with Sheila L. Macrine, published by MIT Press in 2022. Her research has appeared in areas including emotion, cognitive psychology, embodied cognition, and educational learning.