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![Mia Jovanova](https://saxelab.mit.edu/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/mia-641x675.jpeg)
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Simon Columbus
My research seeks to understand how people navigate the challenges of interdependence. At the moment, I am particularly interested in institutional choice and institutional legitimacy: when and why do people establish and comply with institutions that regulate social...![Amrita Lamba](https://saxelab.mit.edu/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/amrita-1080x675.jpg)
Amrita Lamba
I study how people adaptively make inferences and decisions in our highly complex and uncertain social world. Using a computational psychiatry approach, my research also examines how these social learning mechanisms diverge in people with anxiety and depression who...![Young-eun Lee](https://saxelab.mit.edu/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/IMG-2500-Young-eun-Lee-1080x675.jpg)
Young-eun Lee
My research examines the development of punishment against selfish behaviors. I am particularly interested in children’s reasoning and motives underlying third-party punishment.![Shari Liu](https://saxelab.mit.edu/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/Shari-Liu_2021-1080x675.jpeg)