Dr. Rachel A. King is an Assistant Professor of Psychology at Colby College.

Dr. King studies social cognitive development, with two main research foci:

1. The development of socioeconomic cognition, including children’s emerging: 1) thinking about money; 2) inferences about people with different amounts of money; 3) reasoning about the role of money in their own lives and development of personal socioeconomic identities; and 4) beliefs about the causes and effects of socioeconomic inequality and mobility.

2. Early life learning and thinking about, and first-person engagement in, social relationships and networks. For instance, how do children infer social network structures based on observations of social behavior (e.g., a series of dyadic interactions)? And, what factors facilitate children’s development of novel connections in their own social networks?