2016 Spring Conference Speaker

Dr. Alison Ledgerwood is a behavioral scientist and Associate Professor of Psychology at the University of California, Davis. She received her PhD in social psychology from New York University in 2008. Her research focuses on the science of how humans think as well as how to improve people’s reasoning and decision-making. She has received funding for her research from the National Science Foundation and the Hellman Family Foundation, and her TEDx talk on negativity bias has been viewed nearly one million times.