Tara Mandalaywala

Tara Mandalaywala serves as a Postdoctoral Research Scientist and Visiting Scholar of Anthropology at New York University, affiliated with the Department of Psychology within the Faculty of Arts and Science. Her research is conducted at the Conceptual Development and Social Cognition Laboratory.

Her research interests include:

• Development of social cognition
• Behavioral endocrinology
• Bias
• Social categories
• Conceptual development

Her work investigates the biological and social mechanisms underlying human cognitive development, with emphasis on how endocrine activity interacts with social experiences to shape category formation and bias emergence during early life stages.