Samuel Mehr

Samuel Mehr

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Samuel Mehr joined the Department of Psychology in 2010, where over the years he has been a temp, a research assistant, a graduate student, briefly a postdoc, and from 2017-2022 a Faculty Research Associate funded by the NIH Director's Early Independence Award and the Harvard Data Science Initiative.

Mehr’s research draws on ideas and tools from cognitive and developmental psychology, data science, and evolutionary anthropology, to ask what music is, how music works, and why music exists. He directs The Music Lab, an international research group focusing on the psychology of music. In 2022 the lab moved from Harvard to the University of Auckland (New Zealand), with a sister site at the Yale Child Study Center (New Haven). Please visit https://themusiclab.org for information about how to get involved.

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