by rhodesia | Nov 20, 2018
I completed my PhD at MIT researching the trainability of intelligence, and then accepted a post-doctoral position at Beth Israel researching the effects of non-invasive brain stimulation on cognition. I've now returned to the Saxelab, where I try to optimize...
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
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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...
