Léa Combette is a postdoc researcher at the Child Cognition Lab, Boston University. Her research examines how people’s beliefs about the reasons behind individual differences in traits such as intelligence and personality impact their views on the malleability or fixity of these traits, and how these beliefs influence behavior. More precisely, Lea is interested in (1) cognitive biases such as psychological essentialism and (2) interpersonal relationships (teachers-students, parents-kids) and their impact on mindset.