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Maria Konnikova

How to pronounce Maria Konnikova: con-ih-KOH-vuh

Maria Konnikova Biography

Maria Konnikova's articles have appeared online and in print in the New Yorker, the Atlantic, the New York Times, Slate, the New Republic, the Paris Review, the Wall Street Journal, Salon, the Boston Globe, the Observer, the Scientific American MIND, WIRED, and the Scientific American, among numerous other publications. Maria blogs regularly for the New Yorker and formerly wrote the "Literally Psyched" column for the Scientific American and the popular psychology blog "Artful Choice" for Big Think. She graduated magna cum laude from Harvard University, where she studied psychology, creative writing, and government, and received her Ph.D. in Psychology from Columbia University.



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