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Lera Boroditsky (born about 1976 in Belarus) is an Assistant Professor of Psychology at Stanford University and Editor in Chief of Frontiers in Cultural Psychology.

Professor Boroditsky does research in cognitive science with a specific focus on cognitive linguistics. She studies language and cognition, specifically focusing on interactions between language, cognition, and perception. She received her B.A.

from Northwestern University and her Ph.D. from Stanford University, where her thesis advisor was Gordon Bower.

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Her research combines insights and methods from linguistics, psychology, neuroscience, and anthropology. She has received several awards for her research, including an NSF CAREER award, the Marr Prize from the Cognitive Science Society, and being named a Searle Scholar.

Her work has provided new insights on the controversial question of whether the languages we speak shape the way we think (see Sapir–Whorf hypothesis). She has discove