Montana is a second-year PhD student working with Dr. Peter Blake and received her BA in Psychology at Queen’s University in 2022. During her undergraduate career she worked as a research assistant in various labs investigating infants and young children’s moral judgments and prosocial behavior. After receiving her degree, she worked as a full-time lab manager for Dr. Tamar Kushnir’s Early Childhood Cognition Lab where she examined how cost and consequence information impacts children’s judgments about agents who act for the greater good. As a doctoral student, Montana is primarily interested understanding the factors that influence children’s prosocial and risky decision making. She is also excited to explore how individual and social influences affect children’s fairness judgements and behavior.

Outside of working in the lab, Montana loves to hike, rock climb, and obsess over pictures of her dogs back at home!