Kristen Dunfield, 27 May 2025
Humans are a hyper social species. We live in large groups and depend on others to both survive and thrive. Moreover, many humans live in groups so large that most days we are required to coordinate our behaviour with individuals we do not have personal knowledge of.
Concordia University Montréal
Kristen Dunfield is Professor of Psychology at Concordia University Montréal. She was a Post Doctoral Fellow at Ohio State University and holds a PhD from Queen's University.
Her research focuses on how children interact with, learn from, and evaluate the people in their environment. Specifically, she examines the effect of social cognition on the development, production, and maintenance of trust and prosocial behaviour.
Kristen Dunfield is a member of Prof. Dr. Markus Paulus’ (LMU) CAS Research Group The Ontogeny of Normativity.