Description: Benedek Kurdi is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychology at the University of Illinois. His research focuses on social learning and memory.
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As an experimental psychologist, my research seeks to understand the immense power and the surprising limitations of our minds in adaptively responding to new information given a lifetime of learning. I examine learning in the context of basic social processes. Specifically, I study the ordinary decisions we make every day that are critical to our well-being and even survival: our evaluations of and beliefs about other people. In doing so, I rely on a combination of traditional online and laboratory experim
Postdoctoral Associate Department of Psychology Yale University
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