Steve Ceci received his doctorate in developmental psychology from the University of Exeter, England, where he studied children’s recollections—a topic that would later be expanded to include children’s eyewitness testimony in criminal cases. Although children’s courtroom testimony is a core research area, and Steve leads a large lab group of graduate and undergraduate students studying “psychology and law” topics, he has interests in several other areas of psychology, especially gender differences in STEM fields. He has published roughly 500 articles, chapters and books and he has been president of the Society for Experimental Psychology and Cognitive Science. He currently co-teaches two courses “Six Pretty Good Books: Explorations Across Social Science”, and the “Science of Social Behavior”, which in past years he taught at Keeton.

Together with Professor Wendy Williams, they have three daughters, the oldest of whom, Nicole Ceci, was a graduate fellow at Keeton House when it first opened in 2008, and Nicole was completing her masters degree in engineering. Their middle daughter, Sterling Williams-Ceci, was a Keeton active citizen and is now a PhD student in the College of Computing and Information Sciences at Cornell Tech. Their youngest daughter, Wynne Williams-Ceci, also resided in Keeton and was very active in Cornell’s choral singing and acapella communities.

Steve is also a fan of Cornell ice hockey and prides himself on being a connoisseur of craft beers, so if you feel the urge, sit down with him and discuss your views of fine beers.