Montana Shore

Montana is a third-year PhD student working in the Social Development and Learning Lab. Her research examines the development of moral and social cognition, with a focus on how children reason about fairness and apply moral principles in their decision-making. Specifically, she is interested in the cognitive and social mechanisms that shape children’s moral judgments and fair decisions, as well as how children make sense of and evaluate decisions made by social institutions and individuals in positions of authority.

Before joining the SDLL, she received her BA in Psychology at Queen’s University in 2022 where she completed her honors thesis with Dr. Valerie Kuhlmeier. She then went on to work as a lab manager for Dr. Tamar Kushnir at Duke University. Outside of the lab, Montana loves to hike and take her cat on walks!