I'm a Postdoctoral Fellow at Stanford studying moral cognition in infants and children. I work primarily with Carol Dweck. 

I received my Ph.D. at Yale where I was advised by Susan Gelman, Marcia Johnson, and Karen Wynn. Before graduate school, I was an undergraduate at the University of Pennsylvania where I worked with Sharon Thompson-Schill. 

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Research

Throughout history there have been many views on the origins of morality. A common view today is that morality comes intuitively to children, but my research suggests that this may belie the tremendous work that children devote to understanding what goodness consists of and how to embody it. What emerges from my research is a picture of infants and children as deeply engrossed in mapping the moral domain, and placing others––but especially themselves––in the right moral light. My program of research is devoted to illuminating the motivation and reasoning behind the development of moral beliefs and behavior. 
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My work has been covered by several media outlets, including Anderson Cooper 360, Huffington Post, Smithsonian Magazine, and Washington Post.