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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Science isn't a universal mechanism for guiding beliefs, but it's our best guide to the natural world: If we can agree on that, there's a chance the rest will follow, says blogger 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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Millions of Americans will vote for the next U.S. president Tuesday. In case you need the extra encouragement, Tania Lombrozo offers three (more) reasons to vote — courtesy of the social sciences.
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Halloween plays on our fears and fantasies, so it's no surprise that it might reveal interesting features of psychology. But you might be surprised by just what we can learn, says Tania Lombrozo.
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When young kids ask why it's getting dark, many people answer that the sun is going down. Only it isn't. Not really. What should we say? asks psychologist Tania Lombrozo.
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Parents are advised to limit screen time for little ones, but new research suggests that social interactions occurring via video chat can support infant learning, says psychologist Tania Lombrozo.
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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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When it comes to what people really accept, think or feel, are physiological measurements the authority? Commentator Tania Lombrozo says brain activity alone may not tell the whole story.
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We should be wary of declaring some people better or more brilliant scientists when our basis for doing so is, to a large extent, grounded in factors outside their control, says Tania Lombrozo.
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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.