Herrissa Lamothe is a postdoctoral fellow with Josh Tenenbaum and Laura Schulz. She previously completed her Ph.D. at Princeton University in Sociology. She is interested in intuitive sociology, that she characterizes in terms of social kinds which include social categories (e.g. race, class, gender); and social meanings which capture our symbolic hypotheses about the ways in which we are socially connected. She is also interested in developing a theory of central cognition that imports insights from the structure of our social concepts; and posits a computational model architecture for how the mind acquires its concepts and categories – including its social ones.

Rosie Aboody is an NSF SBE Postdoctoral Fellow in the Early Childhood Cognition Lab; she also works with Dr. Elizabeth Bonawitz (Harvard Graduate School of Education). She completed her PhD at Yale, working with Julian Jara-Ettinger.

Rosie studies how we come to understand and reason about other people's knowledge and beliefs—an ability that many uniquely-human behaviors rely on, from teaching to moral judgments. Drawing on developmental and computational approaches, Rosie studies how adults infer what others know or believe from their behavior, and how these capacities develop during the preschool years. On the side, Rosie has also been enjoying developing a theoretical account of fake-news beliefs that can explain why children and adults often find widely-repeated claims believable.

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