Hi, I'm Rachel! I'm a psychology researcher studying how people make sense of the social world, and specifically, the categories within it. My research is situated at the intersection of three areas: social psychology, developmental psychology, and cognitive psychology. In my work, I investigate social category defaults (e.g., who people think of as the 'default' of categories like girl, boy, and person), as well the antecedents and consequences of them (i.e., how they come to be and how they shape real-world outcomes). I study these questions in children, adolescents, and adults. 

I'm currently a postdoctoral research fellow at Princeton University (funded by an NIH F32 fellowship), where I work with Kristina Olson in the Human Diversity Lab. I received my PhD in social psychology, with a developmental concentration, at New York University (funded by an NIH F31 fellowship); there, I worked primarily with Marjorie Rhodes in the Conceptual Development and Social Cognition Lab and collaborated with others in the department, including Andrei Cimpian and Jay Van Bavel. Before graduate school, I earned my BA in psychology and gender studies from Northwestern University. 

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