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Adopted from India, this Princeton senior explores link between poverty and mental health
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Pranavi Sharma - Tue, 24, Jun 2025
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Kajal Schiller. / Princeton University
Kajal Schiller, who was adopted from India at age six, spent part of her early childhood living on the streets. Years later, as a Princeton senior majoring in psychology with a minor in statistics and machine learning, she turned to those formative experiences to guide her thesis research on how socioeconomic status affects decision-making.
Schiller designed a computer simulation game to explore whether people from different income levels approach problem-solving differently. Her study asked Princeton students to decide how many objects to view before identifying their category, a task meant to model real-world decisions about whether to use available resources — such as mental health services.
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