CV
Sara Gottlieb
Department of Psychology
University of California, Berkeley
5427 Tolman Hall
Berkeley, CA 94708
Education
2013-2018: University of California, Berkeley
PhD, Psychology (cognition)
2006-2010: Macalester College
B.A., Psychology, Philosophy
Research Positions
2013-present: Graduate student researcher, University of California, Berkeley
2010-2013: Lab manager, Moral Cognition Lab, Harvard University
Honors and Awards
Arnold L. Lieman Prize for Excellence in Teaching
Outstanding GSI Award
Fellow, Sinai and Synapses Foundation
Published Articles
Gottlieb, S., Keltner, D., & Lombrozo, T. (in press). Awe as a scientific emotion. Cognitive Science.
Gottlieb, S. & Lombrozo, T. (2017). Can science explain the human mind? Intuitive judgments about the limits of science. Psychological
Science.
Gottlieb, S. & Lombrozo, T. (2017). Folk theories in the moral domain. In K. Gray and J. Graham (Eds.), The Atlas of Moral
Psychology, Guilford Publications.
Feinberg, M., Tullet, A.M., Mensch, Z., Hard, W., & Gottlieb, S. (2017). The political reference point: How geography shapes political
identity. PloS one, 12(2), e0171497.
Tullett, A.M., Hart, W.P., Feinberg, M., Fetterman, Z.J., & Gottlieb, S. (2016). Is ideology the enemy of inquiry? Examining the link
between political orientation and lack of interest in novel data. Journal of Research in Personality, 63, 123-132.
Valdesolo, P., Park, J., Gottlieb, S. (2016). Awe and scientific explanation. Emotion.
Amit, E., Gottlieb, S. Greene, J.D. (2014). Visual and verbal processing of moral dilemmas. In J.W. Sherman, B. Gawrsonski, and Y.
Trope (Eds), Dual Process Theories in Social Psychology, Guilford Press, New York.
Papers under review and in preparation
Amit, E., Priva Cohen, U., & Gottlieb, S. (under review). The medium dependence of emotions.
Gottlieb, S. & Lombrozo, T. (in prep). Dissociable components of mind-body dualism predict bioethical judgments.
Gottlieb, S. & Lombrozo, T. (in prep). Intuitive judgments of transformative choice.
Conference talks
Gottlieb, S. & Lombrozo, T. (2017). How ought we reason about transformative experience? Intuitive judgments of transformative
choice. Talk presented at the 43rd Annual Meeting of the Society for Philosophy and Psychology, Baltimore, MD.
Gottlieb, S., Lombrozo, T., & Keltner, D. (2017). Awe as a scientific emotion. Talk presented at the 29th Annual APS Convention,
Boston, MA.
Gottlieb, S. & Lombrozo, T. (2017). How ought we reason about transformative experience? Intuitive judgments of transformative choice.
Invited session at the 2017 Pacific Division Meeting of the American Philosophical Association: Preconference on Themes in
Transformative Experience, Seattle, WA.
Gottlieb, S. & Lombrozo, T. (2016). Can Science explain the human mind? Intuitive judgments about the limits of science. Talk presented at
the 42nd Annual Meeting of the Society for Philosophy and Psychology, Austin, TX.
Gottlieb, S., Park, J., & Valdesolo, P. (2016). Awe and scientific explanation. Talk presented at the 42nd Annual Meeting of the Society
for Philosophy and Psychology, Austin, TX.
Gottlieb, S., Lombrozo, T., & Keltner, D. (2015). There is grandeur in this view of life: Dispositional awe predicts rejection of creationism. Talk
presented at the 41st Annual Meeting of the Society for Philosophy and Psychology, Durham, NC.
Gottlieb, S., & Lombrozo, T. (2014). Dissociable components of mind body-dualism predict bioethical judgments. Talk presented at
the 40th Annual Meeting of the Society for Philosophy and Psychology, Vancouver, BC, Canada.
Teaching
Graduate student instructor, UC Berkeley
Methods and research in psychological science
Research and data analysis in psychology
Scientific approaches to consciousness