Maria KonnikovaMaria Konnikova is a contributing writing for The New Yorker online and her writing has appeared online and in print in The Atlantic, The New York Times, Slate, The Paris Review, The Wall Street Journal, The New Republic, Salon, The Boston Globe, WIRD, The Observer, Scientific American MIND, The Smithsonian, and Scientific American, among numerous other publications. She graduated from Harvard University and received her Ph.D. in psychology from Columbia University. Read More Read Less