hello! my name is min yeshara feldman & i'm a third-year student studying psychology, cognitive science, and religion at ohio state.

my coursework & research experiences focus in social cognition and development.

broadly, i am interested in understanding children's representations of social institutions and attitudes towards them, especially those institutions considered to operate under an implicit social contract or moral code. relatedly, i am interested in institutional objects and actors. i am also interested in the use of game theory in developmental psychology to gauge moral intuitions in young children.

some specific questions i'm interested in are: how do children represent social institutions, such as legal and judicial systems, governing systems, political systems, banks and economic systems, and organized religion? how do they integrate their knowledge of social institutions with their concepts of authority, power, and structural change? do children recognize a relationship between institutional stability and economic stability? and how do children's perceptions of social and economic fairness influence their trust in institutions and authority?

previously, i have been an undergraduate researcher at the ohio state language perception lab and a visiting undergraduate researcher at the harvard laboratory for developmental studies, where i continue to collaborate on ongoing projects. this summer, i'll be an undergraduate researcher at the boston college cooperation lab under dr. katherine mcauliffe!

in my free time, i love to read and write fiction, play the piano, watch studio ghibli movies, pick up new skills and projects (this website being one of them), and go on bookstore-coffeeshop crawls (see the fun tab for my favorite spots!).

inquiries, feldman.307@osu.edu