Celeste Kidd

Celeste Kidd is a professor of psychology at the University of California, Berkeley. She was amongst the "Silence Breakers" who were named Time Person of the Year in 2017.

Celeste Kidd
Alma materUniversity of Rochester
University of Southern California
Scientific career
InstitutionsUniversity of California, Berkeley
MIT
Stanford University
ThesisRational Approaches to Learning and Development
Doctoral advisorRichard N. Aslin
Websitewww.celestekidd.com

Early life and education

Kidd studied print journalism and linguistics at the University of Southern California, where she earned a dual honors degree in 2007.[1] She moved to the University of Rochester for her graduate studies, where she worked in brain and cognitive studies and earned her PhD in 2013. She worked with Richard N. Aslin, an expert on infant learning.[2] She held visiting positions at Stanford University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.[3]

Research and career

Kidd works on curiosity and exploration throughout early development. She was hired as assistant professor at the University of Rochester in 2012.[2] She has studied the willpower of children, challenging the Stanford marshmallow experiment.[4][5] She demonstrated that children's willpower is influenced by their superior's reliability and trust.[6][7]

Kidd was made director of the Rochester Baby Lab at the University of Rochester in 2014.[3][8] She moved to the University of California, Berkeley, in June 2018.[8] She has studied why it is so difficult to shake a false belief, such as believing in flat earth or climate change denial.[9] Kidd is interested in the neuroscience of curiosity.[10][11] She demonstrated that uncertainty can lead to the most curiosity.[11]

#MeToo advocacy

In July of 2016 Kidd filed a complaint with the Office of Counsel of the University of Rochester alleging retaliation for her participation in a university investigation of alleged sexual misconduct by a tenured professor. An outside investigator concluded that the evidence did not support her claims.[12] Kidd was then one of eight then current and former faculty members at the University of Rochester to file a complaint with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. In response the university initiated an outside investigation led by Mary Jo White which cleared the professor of the most serious complaints.[12][13][14]

Kidd was one of nine faculty members who sued the university alleging mishandling of the case.[15] In 2018, Kidd left the University of Rochester,[16] and in March 2020, the university settled with Kidd and the other plaintiffs for $9.4 million with no admission of wrongdoing.[17][18]

Kidd has since become a campaigner to end sexual harassment in academia.[19][20][21] Kidd was made a leader in the Me Too movement in academia, and one of several advocates selected as Time Person of the Year.[22] She has criticized how universities are expected to "investigate themselves" when it comes to complaints about sexual harassment.[19] She believes that public pressure and increased transparency will help to transform academia.[19]

Awards and honors

Kidd has been selected as one of the Association for Psychological Science's Rising Stars.[24]

Personal life

Kidd is married to Steven Piantadosi, a computational psychologist at the University of California, Berkeley.[25][26]

References
  1. "Meet our new faculty: Celeste Kidd, psychology". Berkeley News. September 25, 2018. Retrieved July 10, 2019.
  2. "She was a rising star at a major university. Then a lecherous professor made her life hell". Mother Jones. Retrieved July 10, 2019.
  3. "Directors". Rochester BabyLab. Archived from the original on January 15, 2015. Retrieved July 10, 2019.
  4. "Why Kids Make Rash Decisions". Discover. Retrieved July 10, 2019.
  5. Raeburn, Paul; Zollman, Kevin (April 5, 2016). The Game Theorist's Guide to Parenting: How the Science of Strategic Thinking Can Help You Deal with the Toughest Negotiators You Know--Your Kids. Farrar, Straus and Giroux. ISBN 9780374714406.
  6. "Kids' Willpower Influenced By Others' Reliability". Psychology Today. Retrieved July 10, 2019.
  7. "New 'marshmallow test' suggests trust matters". CBS News. Retrieved July 10, 2019.
  8. Valdes, Amanda (June 9, 2018). "Rochester Baby Lab shutting down, moving from U of R". WHAM-TV. Retrieved July 10, 2019.
  9. Pappas, Stephanie (September 12, 2018). "Why False Beliefs Are Hard to Shake". Live Science. Retrieved July 10, 2019.
  10. Kidd, Celeste; Hayden, Benjamin Y. (November 4, 2015). "The Psychology and Neuroscience of Curiosity". Neuron. 88 (3): 449–460. doi:10.1016/j.neuron.2015.09.010. PMC 4635443. PMID 26539887.
  11. News, Neuroscience (May 23, 2019). "What we think we know, but might not, pushes us to learn more". Neuroscience News. Retrieved July 10, 2019.
  12. Herzog, Katie (March 14, 2022). "How an Academic Grudge Turned Into a #MeToo Panic". Reason.
  13. Wadman, Meredith (January 11, 2018). "University of Rochester president resigns as outside attorney issues report on sexual harassment case". Science.
  14. Flaherty, Colleen (January 12, 2018). "No Closure at Rochester". Inside Higher Ed.
  15. Witze, Alexandra (December 8, 2017). "Nine researchers sue University of Rochester over sexual-harassment allegations". Nature. 552 (7684): 155–156. Bibcode:2017Natur.552..155W. doi:10.1038/d41586-017-08235-z. PMID 29239356.
  16. "Celeste Kidd leaves UR in Jaeger aftermath". Democrat and Chronicle. Retrieved July 10, 2019.
  17. "University of Rochester and plaintiffs settle sexual harassment lawsuit for $9.4 million". Science. March 27, 2020.
  18. "Rochester Settles Sex Harassment Case for $9.4M". Inside Higher Ed. March 30, 2020.
  19. Short, Eva (May 31, 2019). "How do we stamp out sexual harassment in academia?". Silicon Republic. Retrieved July 10, 2019.
  20. Prof Celeste Kidd speaks on How Sexual Harassment Creates Inequality in Academia, Trinity College Dublin, April 12, 2019, retrieved July 10, 2019 – via YouTube
  21. "'The Silence Breakers' - in honor of Women's History Month and International Women's Day, the Women's and Gender Studies Program presents Celeste Kidd and Lindsay Wrobel from the U of R". Rochester Institute of Technology. Retrieved July 10, 2019.
  22. "What Still Needs to Be Done to Break the Silence Surrounding Sexual Harassment". Time. Retrieved July 10, 2019.
  23. "Glushko Dissertation Prize". Cognitive Science Society. Retrieved July 10, 2019.
  24. "APS Rising Stars". Association for Psychological Science. Archived from the original on September 5, 2019. Retrieved July 10, 2019.
  25. Charuchandra, Sukanya (June 20, 2018). "Two University of Rochester Professors Resign in Protest". The Scientist. Retrieved July 17, 2019.
  26. "Steven Piantadosi". University of California, Berkeley. Retrieved July 17, 2019.
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