PROFILE

Lee de-Wit, Ph.D., is a lecturer in political psychology at Cambridge University. He is also the author of What’s Your Bias?: The Surprising Science of Why We Vote the Way We Do.

Lee studied Experimental Psychology at the University of Bristol, and then did an Economic and Research Council–funded Masters (with Charles Fernyhough) and Ph.D. (with David Milner FRS and Robert Kentridge) at Durham University. He then worked as a post-doctoral researcher at the University of Leuven working on the Gestalt Revision program of Johan Wagemans. He also spent time as a visiting researcher with Geraint Rees at the Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience (University College London), Glyn Humphreys at the University of Oxford, and Catherine Tallon-Baudry at the University Hospital Pitié-Salpêtrière in Paris.