Victoria Brescoll, Ph.D., is a Postdoctoral Research Associate at the Rudd Center for Food Policy and Obesity at Yale University. She worked in the office of Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton under a Congressional Fellowship from the Women’s Research and Education Institute, covering a variety of issues related to children and families. Her research interests include the applications of social psychology to public policy and law and, more broadly, media effects, persuasion, and stereotyping.