J. Kiley Hamlin is a Professor of Developmental Psychology at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, BC, Canada, where she holds a Tier II Canada Research Chair in Developmental Psychology. She received her PhD from Yale University in 2010. Her work focuses on the roots of social and moral evaluation in infancy, wherein she has documented that preverbal infants prefer those who help versus hinder others in their unfulfilled goals as early as 3 months after birth. She has received several awards for her work to date, including the Janet Taylor Spence Award for Transformational Early Career Contributions to Psychological Science from the Association for Psychological Science, the Stanton Prize from the Society for Philosophy and Psychology, and a Killam Research Prize.
J. Kiley
Hamlin
Professor of Psychology
University of British Columbia