Molly J. Crockett’s biography, net worth, fact, career, awards and life story

Intro American neuroscientist
Is Neuroscientist 
From United States of America 
Type Science 
Gender female
Education
King’s College

Molly J. Crockett is an American neuroscientist who studies human morality, altruism and decision making. She received the 2019 Janet Taylor Spence Award from the Association for Psychological Science.

Career

Molly Crockett is an Assistant Professor of Psychology at Yale University. Previously she was an Associate Professor of Experimental Psychology at the University of Oxford, a fellow at University College London and University of Zürich, funded by the Sir Henry Wellcome Postdoctoral Fellowship from the Wellcome Trust, awarded in 2010. Originally from Irvine, California, after a Bachelor of Science at UCLA she completed her PhD at the University of Cambridge (King’s College, Cambridge) where she was a Gates Cambridge Scholar.

Work

Crockett studies behavioral neuroscience, with a particular focus on the role of neurotransmitters on decision-making, for example studying how antidepressants effect negotiations in experimental settings. She has criticized science journalists for over hyping the generality of some of her research findings.

Recently, Crockett has begun researching moral outrage.

Works
  • Lieberman, MD; Eisenberger, NI; Crockett, MJ; Tom, SM; Pfeifer, JH; Way, BM (May 2007). “Putting feelings into words: affect labeling disrupts amygdala activity in response to affective stimuli”. Psychological Science. 18 (5): 421–8. doi:10.1111/j.1467-9280.2007.01916.x. PMID 17576282.
  • Crockett, MJ; Clark, L; Tabibnia, G; Lieberman, MD; Robbins, TW (27 June 2008). “Serotonin modulates behavioral reactions to unfairness”. Science. 320 (5884): 1739. Bibcode:2008Sci…320.1739C. doi:10.1126/science.1155577. PMC 2504725. PMID 18535210.
  • Crockett, MJ; Clark, L; Hauser, MD; Robbins, TW (5 October 2010). “Serotonin selectively influences moral judgment and behavior through effects on harm aversion”. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 107 (40): 17433–8. Bibcode:2010PNAS..10717433C. doi:10.1073/pnas.1009396107. PMC 2951447. PMID 20876101.
  • Crockett, MJ; Clark, L; Robbins, TW (23 September 2009). “Reconciling the role of serotonin in behavioral inhibition and aversion: acute tryptophan depletion abolishes punishment-induced inhibition in humans”. The Journal of Neuroscience. 29 (38): 11993–9. doi:10.1523/JNEUROSCI.2513-09.2009. PMC 2775933. PMID 19776285.
  • Lieberman, MD; Inagaki, TK; Tabibnia, G; Crockett, MJ (June 2011). “Subjective responses to emotional stimuli during labeling, reappraisal, and distraction”. Emotion. 11 (3): 468–80. doi:10.1037/a0023503. PMC 3444304. PMID 21534661.
  • Crockett, Molly J.; Fehr, Ernst (2014). “Chapter 14: Pharmacology of Economic and Social Decision Making”. In Glimcher, Paul W.; Fehr, Ernst (eds.). Neuroeconomics: decision making and the brain (2nd ed.). Elsevier Academic Press. pp. 259–279. ISBN 9780124160088.
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