Professor Dr. Molly Crockett

Biography

Molly Crockett is a Professor in the Department of Psychology at Princeton University. Her research lab investigates the relationships between self, society, power, knowledge, technology, and culture. She seeks to understand the nature of epistemic injustice, examining how systems of power shape the way we understand the world and how knowledge is marginalized or amplified through social learning and technology. Specifically, she is interested in how beliefs about people influence judgments, with a particular focus on technologies marketed as 'artificial intelligence' that reinforce existing social inequalities and power structures. Her work addresses questions that integrate perspectives from cognitive science, social psychology, philosophy, and science and technology studies, using a variety of research methods including behavioral experiments, field studies, and computational modeling, alongside machine learning. Additionally, she is committed to bridging quantitative and qualitative methods to better understand human experience and transformation.

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