Moira Dillon
Moira R. Dillon PhD is an assistant professor of Psychology at New York University and director of the Lab for the Developing Mind at New York University. She received her PhD from Harvard University in 2017 and is a 2019 recipient of a National Science Foundation CAREER Award and a Jacobs Foundation Early Career Fellowship. Dillon’s work explores how our everyday experiences in the physical world might form the foundation of our abstract thinking. Her lab conducts behavioral experiments with infants, children, and adults as well as field interventions in schools aimed at identifying the causes of learning in complex environments.