Laurie Santos is a professor of psychology at Yale University. She was awarded the Stanton Prize for outstanding early-career contributions to interdisciplinary research in philosophy and psychology, as well as the Arthur Greer Memorial Prize for Outstanding Junior Faculty at Yale University. In 2012, she was awarded the Lex Hixon Prize for teaching excellence in the social sciences at Yale University. She has been listed in Popular Science Magazine as one of their “Brilliant 10” young minds, and in Time Magazine as a “Leading Campus Celebrity.”