Judy Kim Assistant Professor CAS | Psychology

Degrees: BA, Psychology & Linguistics, Georgetown University
PhD, Psychology, Johns Hopkins University
Bio: Judy Kim is a cognitive scientist studying the relationship between language, thought, and social cognition. She completed her PhD in Experimental Psychology at Johns Hopkins University and received postdoctoral training at Yale and Princeton.

She directs the Communicating and Thinking (CAT) Lab and is currently accepting students.

Representative publications:

Kim, J. S., Colombatto, C., & Crockett, M. J. (2024). Goal inference in moral narratives. Cognition, 251, 105865.

Kim, J. S., Aheimer, B., Montané Manrara, V., & Bedny, M. (2021). Shared understanding of color among sighted and blind adults. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 118(33), e2020192118.

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