Kara Weisman
Senior Researcher at foundry10
Somerville, Massachusetts, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolKara Weisman is a senior researcher and cognitive scientist with more than a decade of experience studying culture, cognition, and conceptual development. She currently conducts anthropological and cognitive research at Stanford University and leads applied work as Senior Researcher at Foundry10, balancing academia with industry partnerships. Her work probes how ordinary people form and revise folk theories of self and mind, caregiving practices, and health-related behaviors, often across large, multi-site, international collaborations. She blends traditional experimental methods with bottom-up analyses and champions open science and culturally informed collaboration with educators and community partners. With a Ph.D. in Psychology from Stanford and a BA in Cognitive Science from Yale, she has directed the Developing Belief Network at UC Riverside and contributed to cross-disciplinary teams across the United States. Based in Somerville, Massachusetts, Kara brings a global perspective to understanding how culture shapes human cognition and development.
12 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Concord AcademyB.A., Cognitive Science, B.A., Cognitive Science at Yale UniversityDoctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Psychology, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Psychology at Stanford University
Github Skills (7)
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lollipop1
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Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
kgweisman/dimkid
Jun 2016 - Jul 2021
Contributions:331 pushes, 1 branch in 5 years 1 month
kgweisman/kgweisman.github.io
Sep 2017 - Mar 2025
Kara Weisman's personal website
Contributions:2 PRs, 143 pushes, 1 branch in 7 years 6 months
reactnextjs
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