Janet has a PhD in Psychological and Brain Sciences from the University of California, Santa Barbara and a Masters of Research from the University of St Andrews where she studied the psychology of how socio-cultural contexts shape behavior and the morally expanding capacities of global citizenship. After earning her PhD, Janet studied collective emotions in social movements as a postdoctoral research associate at Princeton University. She has worked with researchers at the University of St Andrews on moral values in social movements and at the National University of Singapore on values affecting immigration attitudes. She currently collaborates on a study of the re-wilding of formerly captive Asian elephants in Thailand.