Denise D. Cummins, PhD
Dr. Denise D. Cummins is cognitive scientist, author, and elected Fellow of the Association for Psychological Science. She has held faculty and research positions at Yale University, the University of California, the University of Illinois, and the Center for Adaptive Behavior at the Max Planck Institute in Berlin. In her Psychology Today blog and PBS NewHour articles, she writes about what she and other cognitive scientists are discovering about the way people think, solve problems, and make decisions.
Her experimental investigations focus on how perceived relative status impacts fairness in economic transactions, which factors influence people to decide to inflict harm on others, and how people decide what caused an event to happen or what can prevent an event from happening.
Her experimental investigations focus on how perceived relative status impacts fairness in economic transactions, which factors influence people to decide to inflict harm on others, and how people decide what caused an event to happen or what can prevent an event from happening.
Interviews and Presentations
Association for Informal Logic and Critical Thinking (AILACT), October 11, 2024, Zoom, Seven Powerful Tools for Critical Thinking
AirTalk with Larry Mantle, NPR member station KPCC in Los Angeles, November 20, 2020, Exploring the Intersection of Empathy and Leadership (audio)
Science for the People, April 2, 2019, Why Ayn Rand's Objectivism Fails as Corporate and Social Policy (audio)
BBC, November 21, 2017, There's something about Ayn Rand (audio)
WNYC, November 14, 2017 The power of millennial women in pushing back against sexual harassment. (audio)
Brooklyn Based, November 4, 2016: How to Change Someone's Mind--Including Your Own. (html)
Economic Rockstar Podcast, June 2, 2016: Denise Cummins on Fairness in Economics, Altruism and the Prisoners Dilemma (audio)
Matt Townsend Show, BYU Radio, February 8, 2016: The Claim: People Want Fairness, Not Equality (audio)
Chicago Tonight February 2, 2015 (video): Phil Ponce interviewed Dr. David Figlio (Economist at Northwestern) and Dr. Cummins on whether tenure is an outdated tradition in academia.
Matt Townsend Show, BYU Radio, March 3, 2015: Making Friends as an Adult (audio)
Science for the People, April 2, 2019, Why Ayn Rand's Objectivism Fails as Corporate and Social Policy (audio)
BBC, November 21, 2017, There's something about Ayn Rand (audio)
WNYC, November 14, 2017 The power of millennial women in pushing back against sexual harassment. (audio)
Brooklyn Based, November 4, 2016: How to Change Someone's Mind--Including Your Own. (html)
Economic Rockstar Podcast, June 2, 2016: Denise Cummins on Fairness in Economics, Altruism and the Prisoners Dilemma (audio)
Matt Townsend Show, BYU Radio, February 8, 2016: The Claim: People Want Fairness, Not Equality (audio)
Chicago Tonight February 2, 2015 (video): Phil Ponce interviewed Dr. David Figlio (Economist at Northwestern) and Dr. Cummins on whether tenure is an outdated tradition in academia.
Matt Townsend Show, BYU Radio, March 3, 2015: Making Friends as an Adult (audio)
Dr. Charles Sophy Podcast, August, 2014.
Dr. Charles Sophy is a Los Angeles based psychiatrist and Medical Director for the County of Los Angeles Department of Children and Family Services. He is a frequent contributor to Dr. Phil, Today Show, CNN, HLN has appeared on numerous network TV shows, and has a podcast show available through iTunes, and it on the podcast show that I was interviewed. We discussed how male and female "biological clocks" impact careers given our current workplace policies. |
Larry Buhl Labor Pains Podcast, September 11, 2014: Why Americans are afraid to take vacation time from work. (audio)
Social Sciences Explorer, May 8, 2014 (print)
BBC Radio, World Have Your Say, Feb 11, 2014 (audio)
Culture of Empathy, October, 2013 (video)
Focus: Illinois Public Radio, May, 2012: Dr. Cummins discusses her book Good Thinking (audio)
Cambridge University Press, May 7, 2012: Dr. Cummins answers questions about her book Good Thinking (print)