BIO
Simone Schnall is Professor of Experimental Social Psychology in the Department of Psychology at the University of Cambridge (United Kingdom), and a Fellow and Director of Studies in Psychology at the same institution’s Jesus College. She combines insights and methods from social psychology and cognitive science to explore how thoughts and feelings interact, and to understand how people make what seem at times surprising decisions about other people and about physical properties. For instance, she has studied the role of bodily influences in moral judgments and perceptions of the spatial environment. Among her other research interests are economic decision-making and the Higher Values project, studying how art affects people cognitively and affectively. Schnall has served as associate editor of the journals Social Psychological and Personality Science, and Royal Society Open Science.
