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Postdoctoral Position in Cognitive Science of Values
Jan. 8, 2019

Princeton’s Program in Cognitive Science and the University Center for Human Values will host a postdoctoral scholar position in Prof. Lombrozo’s lab. The application deadline is February 8, 2019. For more information, please visit:

Prof. Lombrozo Moves to Princeton University Fall 2018
Sept. 3, 2018

Prof. Lombrozo has moved to Princeton University for Fall 2018. Prospective graduate students should apply to the 

Prof. Lombrozo Receives a 2017 American Council of Learned Societies Fellowship
April 7, 2017

Professor Tania Lombrozo has been named an American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) fellow. The set of 71 fellows was selected through ACLS’s rigorous, multi-stage peer review process from a pool of nearly 1,200 applicants. The fellowship supports scholars for six to twelve months of full time research and writing. The ACLS Fellowship…

Prof. Lombrozo Selected for American Psychological Association Distinguished Scientific Award for an Early Career Contribution to Psychology
April 16, 2016

Professor Tania Lombrozo is the recipient of the American Psychological Association (APA) Distinguished Scientific Award for an Early Career Contribution to Psychology in the area of cognition and human learning. This award recognizes excellent psychologists who are at early stages of their research careers…

Prof. Lombrozo Selected for 2014 Outstanding Early Career Award from the Psychonomic Society
April 16, 2014

Prof. Tania Lombrozo has been selected as a Psychonomic Society Outstanding Early Career Awardee for 2014. Several awards are made each year to “young scientists who have made significant contributions to scientific psychology early in their careers.”

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Prof. Lombrozo Receives Society of Experimental Psychologists Early Investigator Award
Jan. 8, 2014

Professor Tania Lombrozo has been named the recipient of the Early Investigator Award from the Society of Experimental Psychologists.  As such, she will become a Lifetime Fellow of the Society of Experimental Psychologists, the oldest and most prestigious honorary society in Psychology, and join a…

$3.85M Project to Fund Research on Understanding at Berkeley and Beyond
March 5, 2013

The Templeton Foundation recently awarded over three million dollars in grant funding to support a new project called “Varieties of Understanding: New Perspectives from Psychology, Philosophy, and Theology,” for which Prof. Tania Lombrozo is the Psychology Director. The project will support two postdoctoral researchers in the Concepts &…

Prof. Lombrozo Receives 2012 Janet Taylor Spence Award from APS
April 2, 2012

Prof. Tania Lombrozo is one of six recipients of the 2012 Janet Taylor Spence Award for Transformative Early Career Contributions from the Association for Psychological Science. Read more 

Dozens of Thinkers Share Their Favorite Explanations
Jan. 15, 2012

This year’s Edge.org question of the year was “What is your favorite deep, elegant, or beautiful explanation?” Nearly two-hundred thinkers shared their replies…

New Explanation Blog at Psychology Today
Jan. 8, 2012

Visit Prof. Tania Lombrozo’s new blog at Psychology Today, Explananda: Human Curiosity and its Consequences, to learn more about the cognitive science of explanation!