Samuel Klein
Lab Member
Area of Research
Samuel Klein is a postdoctoral research scientist in the Social Cognitive and Neural Sciences Lab at Columbia University. He completed his Ph.D. at the University of California, Davis. To better understand how people think about one another, his research focuses on the information (e.g., traits, social categories) and cognitive processes (e.g., stereotype activation, inhibition) people rely on to derive first impressions, to update those impressions, and to make decisions off those impressions. To answer these questions, he employs a diverse and sophisticated toolkit of computational models (e.g., diffusion decision models), behavioral paradigms (e.g.,
sequential priming), and data sources (e.g., experimental, large-scale online datasets).