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.

Career
Crockett is originally from Irvine, California. She is an associate professor of psychology at Princeton University. Previously she was an associate professor of Psychology at Yale, and 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. 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.

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. She has criticized science journalists for over hyping the generality of some of her research findings.

Recently, Crockett has begun researching moral outrage.


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