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
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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 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...
by rhodesia | Nov 19, 2018
At birth, the human infant brain weighs less than one pound. As infants become children and then adults, that tiny piece of tissue grows and expands to three times its birth size and is responsible for housing our entire experience as a human being. Every bit of...
