Jamil Zaki

Jamil Zaki is an Assistant Professor of Psychology at Stanford University and the Director of the Stanford Social Neuroscience Lab. He received his BA from Boston University, his Ph.D. from Columbia University, and postdoctoral training at Harvard University. His research focuses on the cognitive and neural bases of social behavior, and in particular on how people understand each other's emotions (empathic accuracy), why they conform to each other (social influence), and why they choose to help each other (altruism).