Meltem Yucel - Duke University - primary interest lies in development of social cognition and morality. ​Specifically, in explaining how humans perceive rule violations, why they respond to rule violations, whether this changes with age, and how their interventions may serve evolutionary functions.

S.M. Ramya - Indian institute of technology Madras, India - PhD Student - Using moral imagination to increase sustainability related decision making in organizations

Raihan Alam - Lehigh University - Undergraduate - interested in studying and applying psychological interventions for reducing intergroup hostility, attitudes, and behavior, particularly in the domains of race relations and politics.

Danica Kulibert - Tulane University - PhD Student - studies politics, prejudice, and perspective-taking. Her research focuses on different factors related to perspective-taking and empathy and how they can impact people's perceptions of deviant group members and prejudiced behaviors.

Sergio Barbosa - Universidad del Rosario - Associate Professor - Moral judgment updating and character based moral judgment

Caleb Reynolds - Wake Forest University - Postdoc - moral judgment and character, particularly measurement issues in each. Major lines of study at present include how people make and perceive moral tradeoffs (e.g., dilemmas) and how honesty is instantiated in everyday decision-making and social perception.

Sarah Dimakis - University of Oregon - PhD Student - Moral character judgments about people and groups, blame/ responsibility judgments

Zachariah Berry - Cornell University - PhD Student -broadly interested in morality and identity at work. Currently, much of my research revolves around two topics: loyalty and passion (both passion for work and non-work passions).

Hyemin Han University of Alabama - Associate Professor - studies moral development and moral education with various research methods, including but not limited to, data science and educational neuroscience.

Lindsay Hahn - University at Buffalo, State University of New York - Assistant Professor - I study the reciprocal relationship between exposure to media content and moral judgment & behavior in audiences across the lifespan. In particular, I tend to focus on (1) entertainment media's ability to shape children's moral proclivities and, separately, (2) the extent to which morality is used by people to justify their "bad" behaviors.

Ashley Harrell - Duke University - Assistant Professor I study structural and social-psychological solutions to problems of cooperation, collective action, and social order. My research agenda asks how social networks, norms and sanctions, moral judgments and more encourage (or inhibit) people from behaving prosocially.

Mariola Paruzel-Czachura - University of Silesia in Katowice - Assistant Professor - Moral judgments in general, utilitarian moral judgments, moral self-assessment, moral foundations, prisoners, abortion, moral conformism

Matthew Kersting - University of California, Riverside - PhD Student - The development of moral cognition, reasoning, and decision-making, and how changes in neural maturation influence these skills from infancy to adolescence; Altruistic or egoistic action derived from deontological and utilitarian judgments and how previous experiences of fairness and justice influence future evaluations and decisions; Attribution of the norm of reciprocity as justification for retaliation or absolution following actions perceived as unanticipated, controversial, or intentional

Reyes Santiago Alvarez Salas - Sistema Integral de Protección a la Familia

Nadia Chernyak - University of California - Irvine - Assistant Professor - I use a developmental approach to study how our cognitive skills impact our social behavior, our moral cognition, and our understanding of social groups. Work that Ive focused on in the past has included: how individual differences in numerical cognition predict peoples resource distribution behavior, the development of reasoning about free will and agency, and how choice impacts our moral behavior. Work that I study now includes: how we reason about inequality in household labor, how parents and children talk about social groups, and the development of reasoning about fairness, inequality, and social mobility.

Ben Classen - Victoria University of Wellington - PhD Student - focused on discrepancies in moral perception across online and offline contexts.

Corey Cook - Pacific Lutheran University - Assistant Professor - I'm interested in how moral systems facilitate/accomplish social motives.

Douglas Kievit - Florida State University - PhD Student - My research explores questions related to prejudice, intergroup relations, and politics. Broadly, I am interested in how basic group processes and intergroup attitudes operate in our increasingly tribal sociopolitical climate. For example, some of my recent work examines the various automatic and controlled processes involved in the expression of political hostility, particularly when people perceive relaxed normative restrictions on such expressions. Through my research, I seek to better understand the factors that promote rising incivility in our political climate and identify potential avenues toward easing current societal tensions.

James Dunlea - Columbia University - PhD Student - My research focuses on children's and adults' understanding of punishment, typically within the context of the criminal legal system.

Jack White - UC-Davis - Post-Bacc - interested in developing interventions to improve individual attitudes and behaviors about others and issues in society. Prior to becoming the lab manager at the Cognition in Context lab, he studied the development of biases and ways to mitigate those biases at Dr. Kristin Shutts’ Social Kids Lab and Dr. Patricia Devine's Prejudice and Intergroup Relations Lab. In addition, Jack researched the socialization of morality in Ancient Rome through an interdisciplinary lens under Dr. William Aylward. ​ Jack is currently researching the role of individual differences (e.g. disgust sensitivity, moral values, political orientation) in influencing whatever or not individuals engage in preventive behaviors for COVID19. Jack is also working on an intervention to improve executive functions and mitigate implicit biases.

Andy Vonasch - University of Canterbury - Assistant Professor - Perceptions of ulterior motives; reputation management; diversity of moral opinion; motivations for censorship, protest, and violence

Ensar Acem - Kadir Has University - Master's Student -
Cooperation, dual-process model, political psychology, religious beliefs.

Zineb Kobi - Pennsylvania State University - Undergraduate - Moral reframing, empathy, relationships

Andrés Segovia-Cuéllar - University of Munich - PhD Student - Moral Psychology, Moral Philosophy, Political Philosophy

Junix Jerald Delos Santos - Ateneo de Manila University - PhD Student - I'm interested in social class and inequality, intergroup relations, and collective action.

Sarah Milliron - Cornell University - Post-Bacc - I am interested in moral values and normative ethics, and how this can be applied to reduce conflict and enable the flourishing of individuals and groups.

Gijs van Houwelingen - University of Amsterdam -
Assistant Professor - I mostly study moral cognition, working (again, mostly) from a construal level angle. I also have some work going on what people in strategy call "the behavioral foundations of stakeholder theory", but an equally valid description of that field is "applying interpersonal theories to relations between individuals and firms, and seeing what sticks". As part of my research affiliateship I am involved in the project on moral imagination. We are currently gearing up to run our second study.

Jordan Moon - Arizona State University - PhD Student -
Evolutionary approaches to religion and morality, especially sexual morality.

Eliana Hadjiandreou - Penn State University - Ph.D. Student - I examine norms and perceptions around empathy, compassion, and selfishness, with a particular interest in how such perceptions can affect our willingness to include others in our moral circles and engage in dialogue across different group divides.

S. Prasad Chandrashekar - Seeking Postdoc -
Moral dilemmas, Moral values that interface with the broader area of Jugdement and Decision Making (JDM)

Francisco Cruz - University of Lisbon - PostMaster's/Postgraduate student - Continuing last year's project on defectors

Spike W. S. Lee - University of Toronto - Associate Professor - We live in a time where political polarization, class differences, moral debates, antiscience attitudes, and technological advances pervade our daily lives. So, these days, I'm committed to disentangling the psychological roots of ideology, partisanship, social class, moral intuitions, and science denialism. I'm also trying to unpack the impact of digital technology, such as easy access to smart devices and artificial intelligence, on our desire and ability to think.

Clifford Workman - University of Pennsylvania - Postdoc - What happens when morality fails to work properly? Can our moral intuitions sometimes impair our social functioning? Are some of our moral intuitions about ourselves and others susceptible to features that aren’t relevant (or shouldn’t be, at least), like the attractiveness of our social partners? Why do some people but not others feel so convicted about moral issues that they believe the need for violence outweighs social rules against physically harming others? Can individuals unlearn this belief and, if so, how? With these questions in mind, I am currently working on projects examining: 1. The neuroscience of moral cognition (e.g., beliefs), emotion (e.g., guilt), and motivation (e.g., underpinning altruism), and how these facets of morality are shaped by learning. 2. Relations between morality and beauty (e.g., how moral emotions influence aesthetic evaluations), as well as their neural substrates and the extent to which they are shared. 3. Disturbances to normal moral functioning in healthy (e.g., supporting sociopolitical violence) and disordered populations (e.g., symptomatic guilt in major depression).

Eugen Dimant - University of Pennsylvania - Associate Professor - Behavior change, nudging, social norms, deviant behavior (lying/cheating/corruption/terrorism)

Yitzhaq Feder - University of Haifa - Assistant Professor - My field of specialization in Hebrew Bible and ancient Near Eastern cultures inform my research into the delineation of the moral domain in non-Western and traditional cultures. I am currently directing the Cosmic Justice research group, which is examining the widespread belief that moral values are built into the causal framework of the world, as expressed in notions of karma, poetic justice and the like. I am also leading a digital humanities project which examines the moral categories reflected in lists of taboos from the ancient Near East.

Rachel Calcott - Yale University - Undergraduate - I'm interested in the study of moral decision-making in relational contexts, and the relationship between emotions (disgust in particular) and moral judgements.

Cindel White - York University - Assistant Professor - investigates why people hold different religious beliefs; how people evaluate what is right and wrong; responses to moral transgressions; and how culturally diverse religious beliefs affect people’s moral judgments, values, and prosocial behaviour. Her current research investigates the causes and consequences of different supernatural justice beliefs, such as beliefs about karma, gods, and interpersonal fairness. Her work broadly seeks to understand variation in moral psychology across cultures and contexts, including across countries, across religious groups, and across judgments of children and adults.

Emily Gerdin - Yale University - PhD Student - studies the developmental roots of dehumanization, and also I study the how children and adults evaluate converts (people who leave one social group in favor of another; e.g., new immigrants, religious converts, people who change their political affiliations).

Rosemary (Marah) Al-Kire - Baylor University - PhD Student - I study the interplay among political and religious ideologies, social identity, and intergroup relations. I am also interested in how and why ideologies change.

Melanie McGrath - The University of Melbourne - PhD Student - I study semantic expansion of harm-based psychological concepts such as prejudice, bullying, trauma, and mental disorder. I am interested in how sensitivity to different forms of threat may contribute to holding narrow versus broad harm concepts, as well as how divergent understandings of what is harmful and who is harmed may interact with perceptions of moral agency and patiency.

Faruk Tayyip Yalçın - Sabancı University - Master's Student - I am primarily interested in the role of empathy in moral judgments. More specifically, I am interested in how moral judgments are influenced by group affiliations, and the role of empathy in this process.

Matt Stichter - Washington State University - Associate Professor - My research in moral psychology combines a focus on moral self-regulation in psychology with a virtue theory perspective in philosophy. I have developed an account of virtues as skills that is grounded in self-regulation theory. This goal-oriented approach draws attention to the importance of considering what factors encourage or discourage not only moral behavior, but also engaging in moral learning and self-improvement.

Ike Silver - The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania - PhD Student - Marketplace Morality, Moral Signaling, Inauthenticity

Stephen Anderson - Pennsylvania State University - PhD Student - I am broadly interested in empathy and morality, with a specific focus on how these are shaped by imagination. One of my interests is how morality may inform the way people imagine other perspectives, including the perspectives of those with opposing political positions.

Wen Zhou - Duke University - PhD Student - My research focuses on the psychological parallels between intergroup conflict in human groups and human-animal interactions. Also, how the perception of animals and other natural beings shape our beliefs about intergroup relations and moral value.

Yochanan Bigman - Yale University - Postdoc - Moral cognition and human responses to algorithms and robots

Madeline G. Reinecke - Yale University - PhD Student - investigates 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.

Jordan Wylie - The City University of New York - PhD Student - I study how moral and emotional states influence the mine at the level of vision, cognition, and judgments and behavior. I've also recently become interested in the role that morality plays in defining and constraining what we do in the real world, and what we think about in imaginary ones too.

Vladimir Bojarskich - Friedrich Schiller University Jena - PhD Student - In my dissertation project on online hate speech in polarized political controversies, I focus on predictors of outgroup hatred on social media. One of my key interests is to understand people's moral judgements of hate speech. Due to a background in social and environmental psychology, I am additionally passionate about understanding people' engagement with climate change. For example, I studied how moral foundations relate to climate policy support and how changes in moral convictions relate to flying intentions

Morgan Weaving - The University of Melbourne - PhD Student - primarily investigates differing moral reactions to sexual harassment, more generally I'm interested in why moral disagreements arise, motivated cognition, and the function of ideology.

David G. Kamper - Brown University - Georgetown University Law Center - Postbacc - David studies intuitions regarding causal reasoning, cognitive control mechanisms, causal inference, and rational decision making using behavioral and cognitive tools. At Georgetown Law Center, he researches the psycholinguistic foundations of constitutional and statutory interpretation. Most notably, these are the legal concepts of reasonableness, consent, and intentionality. Moving forward, his research will focus on the cognitive underpinnings of the law - adult's and children's intuitions about moral cognition, punishment, responsibility attribution, causality, intentionality, and decision making. This is to determine how layperson's intuitions coincide or conflict with how the law as is, and future directions law might consider in its understanding of human cognition.

Diego Reinero - Princeton University - Postdoc - I'm interested in how people's moral and political views change through conversations and social networks, and why such changes can be so difficult.

Paige Amormino - Georgetown University - PhD Student - I'm interested in the moral psychology and social tradeoffs of altruistic behavior. To be able to investigate these questions, I’ve primarily been working with Dr. Abby Marsh’s extended network of real world extraordinary altruists – namely, people who have anonymously donated a kidney to a stranger. Like many others who have heard about this population, I am curious to know what drives such costly, altruistic acts.

Jonah Koetke - University of Pittsburg - PhD student - I am interested in the societal level (e.g., misinformation, scientific communication) and individual level (e.g., intellectual humility) factors involved in ideological conflict.

Maryam Khan - University of Edinburg - Master’s Student - I am interested in moral and political psychology. For my dissertation, I am studying the role of decision-framing in extending moral concern towards ideological-others and whether such opportunities to be morally expansive (towards ideological-others) are seen as moral opportunities (i.e., self-image enhancing) or as moral tests (i.e., risk compromising one's self-image).

Shiri Spitz Siddiqi - UC Irvine - PhD Student - I'm broadly interested in how people decide who is good and who is bad. What do people think are the appropriate actions to take, motivations to act from, emotions to feel, and beliefs to have? And how might these judgments change depending on whether we're judging our relatives, friends, or strangers on the Internet? I'm particularly interested in these questions as they apply to the political domain, which has become increasingly moralized in recent years. Ultimately I hope my research can help address rising extremism and partisan hostility.