by rhodesia | Nov 20, 2018
Our lives are filled with various social stressors – such as being evaluated by others or being isolated – and many social interactions occur when individuals are under stress. My research program investigates the neural and behavioral effects of...
by rhodesia | Nov 20, 2018
I’m interested in humans as a social species. I have two lines of research. In the first I investigate what infants, toddlers, and children think about social relationships. So far, I’ve mostly studied how they think and feel about social hierarchy (i.e....
by rhodesia | Nov 19, 2018
I'm interested in the developmental origins of human social cognitive abilities, especially the ones that lead us to learn from and adopt the behaviors of other people. Much of my current research focuses on infants' evaluations of and inferences from...
by rhodesia | Nov 19, 2018
I’m interested in the interplay between experience and endogenous factors in how the brain develops and processes language. How do toddlers’ brains process language? How does the brain respond to language about things that you are really, really interested in?...
by rhodesia | Nov 19, 2018
I am interested in the ways in which cognition affects political behavior. I received my PhD in Political Science from MIT, where my dissertation research focused on the psychological processes associated with threat perception and the influence of those processes on...
