| Tania Lombrozo | |
| Workplaces: | University of California, Berkeley Princeton University |
| Alma Mater: | Stanford University Harvard University |
| Thesis Title: | Understanding explanation : studies in teleology, simplicity, and causal knowledge |
| Thesis Url: | http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/213490808 |
| Thesis Year: | 2006 |
| Doctoral Advisor: | Susan Carey |
Tania Lombrozo is an American psychologist who is the Arthur W. Marks Professor of Psychology at Princeton University. She oversees the Concepts and Cognition Laboratory, which looks to understand the science that underpins cognition.
Lombrozo is from the United States. She was an undergraduate student at Stanford University, where she earned an undergraduate degree in Symbolic Systems and Philosophy.[1] During her undergraduate research, she worked with Peter Godfrey-Smith on the philosophy of science.[2] She moved to Harvard University as a Master's student in psychology and stayed for a doctorate in psychology under the supervision of Susan Carey.[3] [4] Her thesis explored explanation and causal knowledge.[5]
In 2006 Lombrozo joined University of California, Berkeley as an Assistant Professor. She was made the Class of 1944 Chair in the Department of Psychology in 2017.
Lombrozo was made the Arthur W. Marks Professor of Psychology at Princeton University in 2019. Her research looks to understand cognition. She is particularly interested in explanation and understanding, as well as folk epistemology.[6]
She was a frequent contributor to NPR, where she wrote on psychology and cognitive science.[7] She is a contributor to Psychology Today.[8] She has worked with the Association for Psychological Science (APS) to better engage the public in psychological research.
Lombrozo is married to fellow Princeton psychology professor Tom Griffiths.[17]