Molly J. Crockett

Molly J. Crockett is an American neuroscientist who studies human morality, altruism and decision making. She received the 2019 Janet Taylor Spence Award from the Association for Psychological Science.

Molly J. Crockett
Crockett speaks at the 2017 World Economic Forum
Alma materUniversity of California, Los Angeles (BA)
King's College, Cambridge (PhD)
AwardsAPS Janet Taylor Spence Award (2019)
Scientific career
FieldsNeuroscience
InstitutionsYale University
University of Oxford
Doctoral advisorProf Trevor Robbins

Career

Crockett is originally from Irvine, California. She is an associate professor of psychology at Yale University.[1] Previously she was an associate professor of experimental psychology at the University of Oxford, a fellow at University College London and the University of Zürich, funded by the Sir Henry Wellcome Postdoctoral Fellowship from the Wellcome Trust, awarded in 2010.[2] After completing her Bachelor of Science at the University of California, Los Angeles, she completed her PhD at King's College, Cambridge, where she was a Gates Cambridge Scholar.[3]

Work

Crockett studies behavioral neuroscience, with a particular focus on the role of neurotransmitters on decision-making, for example studying how antidepressants affect negotiations in experimental settings.[4][5] She has criticized science journalists for over hyping the generality of some of her research findings.[5]

Recently, Crockett has begun researching moral outrage.[6]

Works

References
  1. "Molly Crockett". Yale University. Retrieved 16 June 2018.
  2. "Sir Henry Wellcome Postdoctoral Fellows". Retrieved 11 October 2013.
  3. "Gates Cambridge Scholars". Retrieved 13 October 2013.
  4. Frankel, Miriam (27 September 2010). "Antidepressants make people less likely to harm others". New Scientist.
  5. Solon, Olivia (8 November 2012). "Neuroscientist Molly Crockett: how to spot 'neurobollocks'". Archived from the original on 19 December 2012.
  6. Crockett, M. J. (18 September 2017). "Moral outrage in the digital age". Nature Human Behaviour. 1 (11): 769–771. doi:10.1038/s41562-017-0213-3. PMID 31024117. S2CID 27074328.
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