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Molly Crockett recently received her PhD in the Department of Experimental Psychology from the University of Cambridge and a Sir Henry Wellcome Postdoctoral Fellowship. Her research is focused on the neural basis of self-regulation and impulsivity. More specifically, what brain mechanisms allow us to control our thoughts, feelings and actions. In March 2011 she begins working at The Institute for Empirical Research in Economics of the University of Zurich.