Alia Crum
psychologist
Alia Joy Crum is an American psychologist who is the principal investigator of the Stanford Mind and Body Lab.
Crum researches how mindsets affect human behaviour as well as physical and mental health outcomes. She has received widespread media coverage for her work.
Early life and education
Crum grew up in Aspen, Colorado. Her father worked in conflict and stress mediation and her mother, in children's theatre. Crum was interested in sports from an early age. She was an elite gymnast as a child and later played ice hockey competitively at Harvard. She was drawn to psychology from her experience in sports, noticing that mental and emotional factors play a huge role in athletic performance.
As an athlete, I was always fascinated by the power of the mind and, in particular, how a person having the same physical capacity from one day to the next could have completely different results depending on their mental state.
She received a B.A. from Harvard University in 2005 and a Ph.D. from Yale University in 2012.
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