Shuai Shao, Ph.D. | 邵率

Hello! I am Shuai Shao (he/him), a postdoctoral scholar in Dr. Katherine McAuliffe's Cooperation Lab at Boston College. I am a social-developmental psychologist interested in how people perceive the complex social world, with a major focus on economic and moral socialization.

For example, how do children reason about social inequality and distribution systems? How do children internalize diverse (or even conflicting) moral norms and regulate their behaviors and reasoning over development? I take developmental, evolutionary, and cross-cultural approaches to answer these questions.

Before joining Boston College, I received my Ph.D. in Experimental Psychology with a Specialization in Computational Social Science at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD). I worked in Dr. Gail Heyman's Social Cognitive Development Lab. I was also affiliated with Dr. Michael McCullough's Center for Research on Experimental Evolutionary Psychology (CREEP). I also worked as a lab manager at Tsinghua University Child Cognition Center (PI: Dr. Stella Christie) and as Mitacs Globalink Research Fellow at UBC Child & Teen Studies Lab (PI: Dr. Catherine Ann Cameron). I earned my M.A. from the University of Chicago and B.S. from Beijing Normal University. 

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