{"id":37,"date":"2017-12-06T15:25:00","date_gmt":"2017-12-06T15:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sites.rutgers.edu\/professor-example\/?page_id=37"},"modified":"2026-01-05T20:49:50","modified_gmt":"2026-01-05T20:49:50","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sites.rutgers.edu\/julien-musolino\/about\/","title":{"rendered":"About"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-635\" src=\"http:\/\/sites.rutgers.edu\/julien-musolino\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/891\/2022\/10\/Julien-collage-300x126.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"728\" height=\"306\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.rutgers.edu\/julien-musolino\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/891\/2022\/10\/Julien-collage-300x126.png 300w, https:\/\/sites.rutgers.edu\/julien-musolino\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/891\/2022\/10\/Julien-collage-1024x429.png 1024w, https:\/\/sites.rutgers.edu\/julien-musolino\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/891\/2022\/10\/Julien-collage-768x322.png 768w, https:\/\/sites.rutgers.edu\/julien-musolino\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/891\/2022\/10\/Julien-collage.png 1474w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 728px) 100vw, 728px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Julien Musolino<\/strong> is a Franco-American cognitive scientist, public speaker, and author who holds a dual appointment as a <strong>Full Professor<\/strong> in the Psychology Department and the Center for Cognitive Science at <strong>Rutgers University, New Brunswick<\/strong>. Julien has lived and studied in France, Switzerland, the United Kingdom, and the United States. In the course of his career, he has held appointments in academic departments of Linguistics, Speech Language Pathology, Psychology, and Cognitive Science.<\/p>\n<p>Julien&#8217;s research spans a broad range of topics in the sciences of the mind with the overarching goal of shedding light on what makes our intelligence distinctively human. Research topics include questions about <strong>language<\/strong>, <strong>intelligence<\/strong>, <strong>rationality<\/strong>, <strong>agency<\/strong>, the <strong>cognitive science of religion<\/strong>, the <strong>cognitive science of belief, <\/strong>and<strong> psychology and the law, <\/strong>among others. Julien\u2019s research has been published in leading international journals and has been funded by the NIH and the NSF. Julien\u2019s work also takes a <strong>public dimension<\/strong> and explores the implications of cognitive science for a range of issues of broader societal importance.<\/p>\n<p>Julien has been the recipient of <strong>multiple teaching awards<\/strong>,\u00a0he has appeared on <strong>national television<\/strong>, participated in<strong>\u00a0public debates<\/strong><strong>,<\/strong> and in 2021, he was invited to speak by\u00a0<strong>the Vatican<\/strong> at their fifth international conference alongside notable figures such as Anthony Fauci, Chelsea Clinton, and Jane Goodall. Julien\u2019s work has been discussed in <strong>popular magazines<\/strong><strong>,<\/strong> and he has been a guest on\u00a0<strong>radio and podcast programs<\/strong>\u00a0in the United States and abroad.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Julien Musolino is a Franco-American cognitive scientist, public speaker, and author who holds a dual appointment as a Full Professor in the Psychology Department and the Center for Cognitive Science &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.rutgers.edu\/julien-musolino\/about\/\" class=\"\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-37","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>About - Julien Musolino<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/sites.rutgers.edu\/julien-musolino\/about\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"About - Julien Musolino\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Julien Musolino is a Franco-American cognitive scientist, public speaker, and author who holds a dual appointment as a Full Professor in the Psychology Department and the Center for Cognitive Science &hellip; 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