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Spotlight: Sep 9, 2022

“I’m interested in studying the human social and moral mind,” says BCS student Setayesh Radkani. She is pursuing two projects for her PhD, which explore the psychological and neural aspects of how humans learn from and influence each other.

Sep 9, 2022

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