Shelley E Taylor

Taylor was born in 1946 in the small village of Mt. Kisco, New York. She grew up in nearby Chappaqua, New York, about 1 hour north of New York City and near the Connecticut border. After completing her doctorate at Yale in 1972, Taylor moved to Harvard University (Cambridge, MA) to be part of the department of social relations, which was an interdisciplinary collaboration between psychology, sociology, and anthropology.