Samuel Klein, Ph.D.

Despite the obvious sophistication of the mind, we often find ourselves entangled in a web of misjudgments, overgeneralizations, and discriminatory acts. Why does our mental machinery, which works so well so often, also frequently lead us astray in the social world?
 

To understand how people think about each other, I measure both the information we use and the processes by which we use it to derive impressions and evaluations of others, and the decisions that follow. I am especially interested in how contexts shape which information we use and how we use it. My work relies on a diverse toolkit of computational models, behavioral paradigms, and data sources.