Tania Lombrozo
Tania Lombrozo is a contributor to the NPR blog 13.7: Cosmos & Culture. She is a professor of psychology at the University of California, Berkeley, as well as an affiliate of the Department of Philosophy and a member of the Institute for Cognitive and Brain Sciences. Lombrozo directs the Concepts and Cognition Lab, where she and her students study aspects of human cognition at the intersection of philosophy and psychology, including the drive to explain and its relationship to understanding, various aspects of causal and moral reasoning and all kinds of learning.
Lombrozo is the recipient of numerous awards, including an NSF CAREER award, a McDonnell Foundation Scholar Award in Understanding Human Cognition and a Janet Taylor Spence Award for Transformational Early Career Contributions from the Association for Psychological Science. She received bachelors degrees in Philosophy and Symbolic Systems from Stanford University, followed by a PhD in Psychology from Harvard University. Lombrozo also blogs for Psychology Today.
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New findings suggest that if people appreciate the non-dichotomous nature of gender identity, they're less likely to maintain negative views towards people who are transgender, says Tania Lombrozo.
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Certain factors may affect a child's ability to appreciate that other people can have desires other than theirs — and that behavior isn't simply governed by reality, says psychologist Tania Lombrozo.
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Commentator Tania Lombrozo turns to the executive director of the National Center for Science Education to find out how science and climate-change education might change under a Trump administration.
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Psychologist Tania Lombrozo says to consider these tips from the psychological sciences to help overcome some of the biases that could distort perceptions of the candidates.
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Tania Lombrozo looks at research published Monday showing people's factual judgment of how much danger a child is in while a parent is away varies according to the extent of their moral outrage.
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Research reveals some surprising and some not-so-surprising patterns in who cares about politics, at least in the United States, says psychologist Tania Lombrozo.
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Psychologist Tania Lombrozo and a colleague, both moms, built an academic conference keeping in mind parents who are trying to juggle the competing demands of caregiving and professional advancement.
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The human mind is a messy thing — and our judgments can be influenced by implicit assumptions and biases, says psychologist Tania Lombrozo, who suggests another way to look at some situations.
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Effectively looking after others requires first caring for oneself, but it can be tough to implement in a cultural context that often idealizes intensive parenting, says psychologist Tania Lombrozo.
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Science research on Christmas offers tips for those who celebrate — and some general lessons about family, gift giving, communication and community for all, says psychologist Tania Lombrozo.