Faculty
Paul Bloom |
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My interests are perversely diverse, but recently I’ve been most excited by questions about morality and how it develops; intuitions about personal identity, free will, and the self; the origin of religious belief; and the strange pleasures we get from fiction and art. |
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Postdoctoral Associates
Matti Wilks |
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My research broadly focuses on moral cognition and socio-moral development and I have a range of interests including the moral circle, prosocial behavior, compassion and effective altruism. Currently I am interested in understanding why we moralize certain people and things, and the factors that underpin those intuitions. In one line of research I examine how children think about the moral status of a range of entities and explore factors that may contribute to these beliefs. In this work I also explore the emergence of extreme altruism in children. In another line of work, I explore the moralization of food technology, often employing cultured meat as a case study. Taking a lifespan perspective, I explore intuitions around naturalness, morality and the psychological mechanisms that shape these views. |
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Graduate Students
Madeline “Gracie” Reinecke, 5th year |
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I primarily investigate how adults and children evaluate moral standing (e.g., in humans, in non-human animals, in robots). I also examine people’s beliefs about the nature of morality. |
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Emily Gerdin, 5th year |
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I study ideological reasoning. Specifically, my research considers how our beliefs about belief systems (e.g., religious doctrines, political ideologies) are shaped during development, and the role early moral thinking plays in this process. |
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Summer 2021 [Remote] Interns:
- Jess Stephenson
- Ashley Missimo
- Ari Meyer
- Rachel Calcott
- Honor Thompson
Lab Alumni & Where they are now:
Former lab managers, graduate students, and postdoctoral researchers:
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Graduate Student
University of Chicago
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Graduate Student
University of Toronto
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Postdoctoral Fellow
Boston College
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Postdoctoral Fellow
Boston College
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Postdoctoral Fellow
MIT
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Matthias Forstmann |
Jillian Jordan
Postdoctoral Fellow
Northwestern University
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Adam Bear
Postdoctoral Fellow
Harvard
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Christina Starmans Assistant Professor University of Toronto |
Koni Banerjee Senior Scientist Unilever |
Jonathan Phillips Postdoctoral Fellow Harvard University |
Lily Guillot Analyst Yale University |
Mark Sheskin Assistant Professor Minerva Schools at KGI |
Thalia Goldstein Assistant Professor Pace University |
Jennifer Barnes Assistant Professor University of Oklahoma |
Kiley Hamlin Associate Professor University of British Columbia |
Izzat Jarudi Consultant Tufts Health Plan |
Jane Erickson Exectutive Director Leport Schools |
Louisa Egan Brad Visiting Assistant Prof. Bryn Mawr College |
Koleen McCrink Assistant Professor Barnard College |
Erik Cheries Assistant Professor UMass Amherst |
Erika Nurmsoo Lecturer University of Kent |
Deena Weisberg Senior Fellow University of Pennsylvania |
Candice Mills Associate Professor University of Texas at Dallas |
Judith Danovitch Assistant Professor University of Louisville |
Nicholaus Noles Assistant Professor University of Louisville |
Melissa Allen Preissler Senior Lecturer Lancaster University |
Susan Birch Associate Professor Universty of British Columbia |
Gil Diesendruck Associate Professor Bar-Ilan University |
Valerie Kuhlmeier Associate Professor Queen’s University |
Kristy van Marle Assistant Professor University of Missouri |
David Pizarro Associate Professor Cornell University |
Lori Markson Associate Professor Washington University St. Louis |
Deborah Kelemen Professor Boston University |
Previous Semester Research Assistants:
- Manuljie Hikkaduwa
- Iman Iftikhar
- Jaclyn Tan (Yale-NUS)
- Clare Chemery
- Jack Beadle (Bath University)
- Sarel Inbar (Princeton University)
- Diana Jones (University of New Haven)
- Jeremy Otridge
- Elizabeth Calabresi
- Shannon Phuah
- Mei Shinomiya
- Arianna Hairston
- Karli Cecil (Senior Thesis)
- Eimanulle Pendon (University of New Haven)
- Lydia Buonomano
- Maya Rodriguez (Senior Thesis)
- Rob Henderson
Previous Summer Interns:
Summer 2020:
[Remote due to COVID-19]
- Evelyn Wilson
- Grace Rowed
- Nathan Liang
- Carly Snidow
- Pragya Kallanagoudar
- Mark Kurapatti
- Xavier Fallone
Summer 2019:
- Catherine Seita
- Ainsley Buck
- Elise Mahaffey
- Mercedes Munoz
- Nicole Stern
- Abby McLaughlin
Summer 2018:
- Courtney Welsh
- Isobel Munday
- Allie Morra
- Paige Amormino
- Jeb taylor
Summer 2017:
- Kaylee Defelice
- Sabrina Porcelli
- Katherine Zeng
- Megan Edwards
Summer 2016:
- Emmett Larson
- Anjie Yang
- Maria Brucato
- Tess Flanagan
- Isabella (Bella) Starvaggi