Activities

 

Current research projects associated with Moral Attitudes and Decision-Making include:

  • Nina Strohminger, KIE Post-Doctoral Fellow: Attention and Moral Judgment (eye-tracker research)
  • Jesse Summers, Philosophy Post-Doctoral Fellow: Scrupulosity: Obsession with Morality (survey and planned patient research)
  • Elizabeth Victor and Cameron Hopkin (Graduate Students, Psychology and Neuroscience), Robert Thomson (Professor, Psychology and Neuroscience), Phil Constanzo and Walter Sinnott-Armstrong (KIE Senior Fellow and Faculty): Sexual Risk Taking and Moral Judgment (survey research)
  • Vijeth Iyengar (Graduate Student, Psychology and Neuroscience), Roberto Cabeza and Scott Huettel (Duke Center for Cognitive Neuroscience), and Walter Sinnott-Armstrong: Influences of Moral Judgment on Politics (survey and fMRI research)
  • Lawrence Ngo (Graduate Student, Neurobiology), Meagan Kelly (Undergraduate, Neurobiology), Scott Huettel (Duke Center for Cognitive Neuroscience), and Walter Sinnott-Armstrong: Confidence and Conformity in Moral Judgments (survey and planned fMRI research)
  • Lawrence Ngo (Graduate Student, Neurobiology), Meagan Kelly (Undergraduate, Neurobiology), Scott Huettel (Duke Center for Cognitive Neuroscience), and Walter Sinnott-Armstrong: Intentions and Side-Effects (survey and fMRI research)
  • Daryl Cameron (UNC Social Psychology Graduate Student), Keith Payne (UNC Professor of Psychology), and Walter Sinnott-Armstrong: Implicit and Explicit Moral Attitudes (timing research)
  • Aaron Ancell, Philosophy Graduate Student: Evolution and Morality (philosophical research)
  • Lauren Bunch, Philosophy Graduate Student: Moral Virtues (philosophical research)
  • Stephen Vaisey, Associate Professor of Sociology: Measuring Morality (survey of 1,500 adults on questions devised by scholars from sociology, psychology, and linguistics

Researchers have been meeting regularly since June to discuss ongoing projects and relevant literature. Presenters have included:

  • Daryl Cameron, “Implicit Moral Attitudes”
  • Lawrence Ngo, “Conformity in Moral Judgment”
  • Jesse Summers, “Scrupulosity”
  • Elizabeth Victor, “Sexual Risk Taking and Moral Judgment”
  • Aaron Ancell, “Evolution and Morality”
  • Phil Costanzo, “Josh Greene’s ‘Moral Psychology’”
  • Meagan Kelly, “Conformity in Moral Judgments
  • Walter Sinnott-Armstrong, “John Mikhail’s ‘Universal Moral Grammar’”
  • Vijeth Iyengar, “Moral Judgment in Politics”
  • Crystal Shackleford, Graduate Fellow, Center for Human Science, UNC
  • Elizabeth Victor, “Sexual Risk Taking and Moral Judgment”
  • Steve Vaisey, “Measuring Morality”

Guest speakers:

In December, Yoel Inbar, Assistant Professor of Social Psychology at Tilburg University, visited with the working group and presented a Monday Seminar talk.

This spring, Azim Shariff, Assistant Professor of Social/Personality, Religion, Morality, Cultural and Evolutionary Psychology, University of Oregon, will be visiting.