Sharot received prestigious fellowships from the Wellcome Trust, the Forum of European Philosophy and the British Academy. She won the British Psychological Society Book award for 2014 (for The Optimism Bias) and 2018 (for The Influential Mind). She has been described as "one of the top female scientists in her country" listed as one of the 15 exemplary female Israeli-born scientists alive. Her two TED talks have been viewed a total of 15 million times.
