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Eva Illouz

Eva Illouz is Directrice d’Etudes at the EHESS, a member of the Center of Rationality at Hebrew University and holds the Rose Isaac Chair in Sociology. She is also a Senior Research Fellow at the Van Leer Institute and visiting professor at the Wissenschaftzentrum, in Berlin. She is a past President of the Bezalel Academy […]

Maya Bar-Hillel

The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, The Dept. of Psychology, and The Federmann Center for the Study of Rationality. Maya Bar-Hillel is a professor emeritus of Psychology at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Known for her work on inaccuracies in human reasoning about probability, she has also studied decision theory in connection with Newcomb’s paradox, investigated […]

Marta Moita

Principal investigator to moitalab at Champalimaud Foundation, Lisbon. Full CV

Helen Fisher

Helen E. Fisher, PhD biological anthropologist, is a Senior Research Fellow at The Kinsey Institute, Indiana University, and The Center for Evolutionary Studies, Rutgers University, was chosen in 2015 by Business Insider as one of “The Fifteen Most Amazing Women in Science”. She has written six books on the evolution, biology, and psychology of human […]

Donatella Marazziti

Professor of Psychiatry at the Dipartimento di Medicina Clinica e Sperimentale, Section of Psychiatry, University of Pisa. Full CV

Ruth Feldman

PhD is the Simms-Mann Professor of Developmental Social Neuroscience at the Interdisciplinary Center (IDC) Herzlia with joint appointment at Yale Child Study Center. Full CV

Catherine Dulac

Higgins Professor of Molecular and Cellular Biology, Harvard University. Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute. Full CV

Sarah-Jayne Blakemore

Sarah-Jayne Blakemore is Professor of Psychology at the University of Cambridge, UK, and leader of the Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience Group. Her group’s research focuses on the development of social cognition and decision making in the human adolescent brain, and adolescent mental health. Her group runs behavioural studies in schools and in the lab, as well […]