Sonja Vogt received her PhD at the Interuniversity Center for Social Science Theory and Methodology (ICS) at the University of Utrecht in the Netherlands. She was then a senior research associate in the Department of Economics at the University of Zurich. From Zurich she moved to Oxford, where she was a senior postdoctoral officer at the Centre for Experimental Social Sciences in Oxford. Currently, Sonja is associate professor for sustainable social development at the University of Bern, and she is affiliated with Nuffield College and the Sociology Department at the University of Oxford. Sonja has published in Nature, Science, and Proceedings of the Royal Society B. Her research focuses on social development, with a particular emphasis on culturally sensitive topics where attitudes and behavior are hard to measure. Examples include female genital cutting, prenatal sex-selection, corruption, and various types of discrimination. Sonja has projects in Sudan, Armenia, Columbia, Brazil, Kenya, and Nigeria.