Molly J. Crockett is an American neuroscientist who studies human morality, altruism and decision making.

She received the 2019 Janet Taylor Spence Award from the Association for Psychological Science.

[1] Previously she was an associate professor of Psychology at Yale, and associate professor of experimental Psychology at the University of Oxford, a fellow at University College London and the University of Zürich, funded by the Sir Henry Wellcome Postdoctoral Fellowship from the Wellcome Trust, awarded in 2010.

[2] After completing her Bachelor of Science at the University of California, Los Angeles, she completed her PhD at King's College, Cambridge, where she was a Gates Cambridge Scholar.

[4][5] She has criticized science journalists for over hyping the generality of some of her research findings.