Dr. Madalina Vlasceanu

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Madalina Vlasceanu is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Environmental Social Sciences at Stanford University's Doerr School of Sustainability and the Director of the Climate Cognition Lab. She obtained her PhD in Psychology with a focus on Neuroscience from Princeton University in 2021 and holds a BA in Psychology and Economics from the University of Rochester in 2016. Prior to joining Stanford, she served as an Assistant Professor of Psychology at New York University. Her research centers on cognitive social processes that give rise to emergent phenomena like collective beliefs, decision-making, and action, with direct applications to climate policy. Vlasceanu employs a diverse set of methods including behavioral laboratory experiments, social network analysis, and randomized controlled trials in her work, which aims to enhance understanding of climate awareness and action at individual, collective, and system levels. Her work is grounded in theory and seeks to inform practices and policies relevant to climate mitigation and adaptation.

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