Sarah L. Kiefer

I am a Ph.D. student at Brown University in the Department of Cognitive & Psychological Sciences. I work with Dr. Dave Sobel in the Causality and Mind Lab.

My research examines how children navigate engaging with challenges across development. Specifically, I am interested in exploring how children’s decisions to persist are informed by an integration of individual, situational, and social factors.

Prior to Brown, I graduated from Arizona State University in 2019 with a B.S. in Psychology. After, I worked as a research coordinator at the Southwest Autism Research and Resource Center (SARRC) and then as a Lab Manager of the Emerging Minds Lab at Arizona State University.