Steve Rathje

Steve Rathje is a Ph.D. candidate at the University of Cambridge (Trinity College), where he studies as a Gates Cambridge Scholar and as a member of the Cambridge Social Decision-Making Lab. Previously, he studied Psychology and Symbolic Systems at Stanford University. He has published in journals such as the Proceedings of the National Academy of Science, Psychological Science, and the Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, and his research has been covered by outlets such as the BBC, NBC, the Wall Street Journal, the Guardian, and the Freakonomics podcast. He has received grants from the Center for Moral Understanding, Heterodox Academy, and the AE Foundation. His thesis was recently awarded the Psychology of Technology Dissertation Fellowship. In 2022, he will be a post-doctoral researcher at NYU with the Social Identity and Morality Lab, funded in part by a “Synergy Scholar” award from the Center for the Science of Moral Understanding. Steve is also very interested in Science Communication and has written articles for the Washington Post, the Guardian, Quartz, and Psychology Today. He also makes Science Communication TikToks under the name @stevepsychology.