Dr Leor ZmigrodUniversity positionResearch Associate DepartmentsInstitutesBehavioural and Clinical Neuroscience Institute Home pagehttp://www.leorzmigrod.com (personal home page) Research ThemeInterestsDr Leor Zmigrod is a Research Fellow at the University of Cambridge. Her research combines methods from experimental psychology, cognitive science, and neuroscience to investigate the psychology of ideological adherence and group identity formation. In particular, she is interested in investigating cognitive characteristics that might act as vulnerability factors for radicalization and ideologically-motivated behaviour. Leor completed her BA and PhD at Cambridge as a Gates Scholar. She also spent time as a visiting research fellow at Stanford University (2018) and Harvard University (2019). Her research has been published in prestigious scientific journals such as the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, and Trends in Cognitive Sciences, and has been featured in media outlets such as The Guardian, Time Magazine, The Financial Times, New Scientist, BBC Radio, and LSE’s British Politics and Policy website. Research Focus
EquipmentBehavioural analysis Computational modelling Electroencephalography (EEG) Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) Neuropsychological testing tDCS Collaborators
Associated News ItemsKey publicationsZmigrod L, Rentfrow PJ, Robbins TW (2019), “The Partisan Mind: Is Extreme Political Partisanship Related to Cognitive Inflexibility?” Journal of Experimental Psychology: General Rollwage M, Zmigrod L, De-Wit L, Dolan RJ, Fleming SM (2019), “What Underlies Political Polarization? A Manifesto for Computational Political Psychology” Trends in Cognitive Sciences PDF Khalighinejad N, Schurger A, Desantis A, Zmigrod L, Haggard P (2018), “Precursor processes of human self-initiated action” NeuroImage 165: 35-47 PDF Zmigrod L, Rentfrow PJ, Robbins TW (2018), “Cognitive underpinnings of nationalistic ideology in the context of Brexit” PNAS 201708960 PDF Zmigrod L, Garrison JR, Carr J, Simons JS (2016), “The neural mechanisms of hallucinations: A quantitative meta-analysis of neuroimaging studies” Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews 69: 113-123 Publications2019Ebert T, Gotz FM, Obschonka M, Zmigrod L, Rentfrow PJ (2019), “Regional Variation in Courage and Entrepreneurship: The Contrasting Role of Courage for the Emergence and Survival of Start?Ups in the US” Journal of Personality 87(5), 1039-1055 PDF Zmigrod L, Rentfrow PJ, Robbins TW (2019), “Cognitive Inflexibility Predicts Extremist Attitudes” Frontiers in Psychology PDF Zmigrod L, Zmigrod S, Rentfrow PJ, Robbins TW (2019), “The Psychological Roots of Intellectual Humility: The Role of Intelligence and Cognitive Flexibility” Personality and Individual Differences 141, 200-208 PDF 2018Zmigrod L, Rentfrow PJ, Zmigrod S, Robbins TW (2018), “Cognitive flexibility and religious disbelief” Psychological Research 1-11 PDF Zmigrod S, Zmigrod L, Hommel B (2018), “The relevance of the irrelevant: Attentional distractor-response binding predicts performance in the Remote Associates Task” Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts PDF 2016Zmigrod L, Zmigrod S (2016), “On the Temporal Precision of Thought: Individual Differences in the Multisensory Temporal Binding Window Predict Performance on Verbal and Nonverbal Problem Solving Tasks” Multisensory Research 29(8): 679-701 PDF |