Leslie Jennings Rowley
Biography
Leslie Jennings Rowley, Associate Director for the Kahneman-Treisman Center, oversees the Center’s day-to-day management. In this role, Leslie is also accountable for executing the Center’s mission and programmatic objectives while developing interdisciplinary initiatives and cultivating research collaborations both internal and external to Princeton that link academic insights in the behavioral sciences to real world issues. She also serves as a member of the Governing Board of the Behavioral Science and Policy Association. A graduate of Dartmouth College with an A.B. in Economics and Geography, she holds an M.B.A. in international business and a Ph.D. in psychology with an emphasis on media. Her previous research has centered on the impact of narrative media on measures of adolescent self-identity, self-construal, and national identity. She is currently working on a project on how individuals and Western society as a whole approach the idea of endings and what behavioral insights may lend to their reimagining.