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Celeste Kidd | |
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| Education | University of Rochester University of Southern California |
| Scientific career | |
| Workplaces | University of California, Berkeley MIT Stanford University |
| Thesis | Rational Approaches to Learning and Development |
| Richard N. Aslin | |
| Website | www |
Celeste Kidd is a professor of psychology at the University of California, Berkeley. She was amongst the "Silence Breakers" who were named Time Person of the Year in 2017.
Early life and education
[edit]Kidd studied print journalism and linguistics at the University of Southern California, where she earned a dual honors degree in 2007.[1] Kidd moved to the University of Rochester for her graduate studies, where she worked in brain and cognitive studies and earned her PhD in 2013. She worked with Richard N. Aslin, an expert on infant learning.[2] Kidd held visiting positions at Stanford University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.[3]
Research and career
[edit]Kidd works on curiosity and exploration throughout early development. She was hired as assistant professor at the University of Rochester in 2012.[2] She has studied the willpower of children, challenging the Stanford marshmallow experiment.[4][5] She demonstrated that children's willpower is influenced by their superior's reliability and trust.[6][7]
Kidd was made director of the Rochester Baby Lab at the University of Rochester in 2014.[3][8]
In 2017, Kidd was one of several whistleblowers who sued the University of Rochester for its handling of sexual harassment complaints.[9][10] Kidd and another whistleblower Jessica F. Cantlon were named as two of Time's Person of the Year 2017 for their complaints.[11] Ultimately, in 2020, Kidd and the other plaintiffs settled with the University or Rochester for $9.4 million.[12]
She resigned from University of Rochester and moved to the University of California, Berkeley in June 2018.[8] She has studied why it is so difficult to shake a false belief, such as believing in flat earth or climate change denial.[13] Kidd is interested in the neuroscience of curiosity.[14][15] She demonstrated that uncertainty can lead to the most curiosity.[15]
Awards and honors
[edit]- 2012 Discover magazine Top 100 Science Story of 2012[4]
- 2014 Cognitive Science Society Glushko Dissertation Prize in Cognitive Science[16]
- 2017 Time Person of the Year[17]
Kidd has been selected as one of the Association for Psychological Science's Rising Stars.[18]
References
[edit]- ↑ "Meet our new faculty: Celeste Kidd, psychology". Berkeley News. September 25, 2018. Retrieved July 10, 2019.
- 1 2 Pauly, Madison. "She was a rising star at a major university. Then a lecherous professor made her life hell". Mother Jones. Retrieved July 10, 2019.
- 1 2 "Directors". Rochester BabyLab. Archived from the original on January 15, 2015. Retrieved July 10, 2019.
- 1 2 Ross, Valerie (17 January 2013). "Why Kids Make Rash Decisions". Discover. Retrieved July 10, 2019.
- ↑ Raeburn, Paul; Zollman, Kevin (April 5, 2016). The Game Theorist's Guide to Parenting: How the Science of Strategic Thinking Can Help You Deal with the Toughest Negotiators You Know--Your Kids. Farrar, Straus and Giroux. ISBN 9780374714406.
- ↑ Lewis, Jordan Gaines. "Kids' Willpower Influenced By Others' Reliability". Psychology Today. Retrieved July 10, 2019.
- ↑ "New 'marshmallow test' suggests trust matters". CBS News. Retrieved July 10, 2019.
- 1 2 Valdes, Amanda (June 9, 2018). "Rochester Baby Lab shutting down, moving from U of R". WHAM-TV. Retrieved July 10, 2019.
- ↑ "Jessica Cantlon". Post. Archived from the original on 2019-11-07. Retrieved 2020-03-02.
- ↑ "Unauthorized searches of professors' email create rift at Rochester". www.insidehighered.com. Retrieved 2020-03-02.
- ↑ Zacharek, Stephanie; Eliana Dockterman, Eliana; Sweetland Edwards, Haley (2017). "TIME Person of the Year 2017: The Silence Breakers". Retrieved 29 August 2025.
- ↑ "Rochester Settles Sex Harassment Case for $9.4M," Inside HigherEd, 30 March 2020.
- ↑ Pappas, Stephanie (September 12, 2018). "Why False Beliefs Are Hard to Shake". Live Science. Retrieved July 10, 2019.
- ↑ Kidd, Celeste; Hayden, Benjamin Y. (November 4, 2015). "The Psychology and Neuroscience of Curiosity". Neuron. 88 (3): 449–460. doi:10.1016/j.neuron.2015.09.010. PMC 4635443. PMID 26539887.
- 1 2 "What we think we know, but might not, pushes us to learn more". Neuroscience News. May 23, 2019. Retrieved July 10, 2019.
- ↑ "Glushko Dissertation Prize". Cognitive Science Society. Retrieved July 10, 2019.
- ↑ "What Still Needs to Be Done to Break the Silence Surrounding Sexual Harassment". Time. Retrieved July 10, 2019.
- ↑ "APS Rising Stars". Association for Psychological Science. Archived from the original on September 5, 2019. Retrieved July 10, 2019.
