Lab meetings this semester will be on Mondays from 3:30PM to 5:30PM. If you are interested in attending lab meeting, please contact Lily Tsoi.

Below is a list of previous lab meetings (date, name of presenter, papers/articles for background reading):

April 08, 2013
Colloquium: Yaoda Xu

March 25, 2013
Colloquium: Ken Paller

March 18, 2013
Presenter: Tory Wobber

February 25, 2013
Presenter: Emily Cogsdill

February 18, 2013
Colloquium: Glenn Schellenberg

February 04, 2013
Presenter: Mindi Rock

December 17, 2012
Presenter: James Dungan

November 19, 2012
Presenters: Lily Tsoi, Jordan Theriault

November 12, 2012
Colloquium: Eric Eich

November 05, 2012
Presenter: Lily Tsoi

October 22, 2012
Presenter: Alek Chakroff

  • Laham, S. M., Alter, A. L., & Goodwin, G. P. (2009). Easy on the mind, easy on the wrongdoer: Discrepantly fluent violations are deemed less morally wrong. Cognition, 112(3), 462–466. doi:10.1016/j.cognition.2009.06.001

October 15, 2012
Presenter: Jordan Theriault

  • Dillon, K. D., & Cushman, F. (2012). Agent, Patient … ACTION! What the Dyadic Model Misses. Psychological Inquiry, 23(2), 150–154. doi:10.1080/1047840X.2012.668002
  • Gray, K., Young, L., & Waytz, A. (2012). Mind Perception Is the Essence of Morality. Psychological Inquiry, 23(2), 101–124. doi:10.1080/1047840X.2012.651387

October 01, 2012
Presenters: James Dungan, Lily Tsoi

  • Cappelletti, D., Guth, W., & Ploner, M. (2008). Being of two minds: An ultimatum experiment investigating affective processes. Jena Economic Research Papers, 2008(48).
  • Mead, N. L., Baumeister, R. F., Gino, F., Schweitzer, M. E., & Ariely, D. (2009). Too tired to tell the truth: Self-control resource depletion and dishonesty. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 45(3), 594–597. doi:10.1016/j.jesp.2009.02.004
  • Rand, D. G., Greene, J. D., & Nowak, M. A. (2012). Spontaneous giving and calculated greed. Nature, 489(7416), 427–430. doi:10.1038/nature11467


August 30, 2012
Presenter: Brendan Gaesser

  • Garry, M., Manning, C. G., Loftus, E. F., & Sherman, S. J. (1996). Imagination inflation: Imagining a childhood event inflates confidence that it occurred. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 3(2), 208–214. doi:10.3758/BF03212420
  • Rameson, L. T., Morelli, S. A., & Lieberman, M. D. (2012). The neural correlates of empathy: experience, automaticity, and prosocial behavior. Journal of cognitive neuroscience, 24(1), 235–245. doi:10.1162/jocn_a_00130
  • Schacter, D. L., Addis, D. R., & Buckner, R. L. (2008). Episodic Simulation of Future Events: Concepts, Data, and Applications. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, 1124(1), 39–60. doi:10.1196/annals.1440.001

August 16, 2012
Joint lab meeting with Elizabeth Kensinger’s lab
Presenters: Eric Allard, Lily Tsoi, James Dungan, Kelly Bennion

  • Moran, J. M., Jolly, E., & Mitchell, J. P. (2012). Social-Cognitive Deficits in Normal Aging. Journal of Neuroscience, 32(16), 5553–5561. doi:10.1523/JNEUROSCI.5511-11.2012
  • Fausey, C. M., & Boroditsky, L. (2010). Who dunnit? Cross-linguistic differences in eye-witness memory. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 18(1), 150–157. doi:10.3758/s13423-010-0021-5

August 02, 2012
Joint lab meeting with Elizabeth Kensinger’s lab
Presenters: Alek Chakroff, Halle Zucker, Josh Rottman, Jackie Ford

  • Shu, L. L., & Gino, F. (2012). Sweeping dishonesty under the rug: How unethical actions lead to forgetting of moral rules. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 102(6), 1164–1177. doi:10.1037/a0028381
  • Pizarro, D. A., Laney, C., Morris, E. K., & Loftus, E. F. (2006). Ripple effects in memory: judgments of moral blame can distort memory for events. Memory & Cognition, 34(3), 550–555. doi:10.3758/BF03193578
  • Russell, P. S., & Giner-Sorolla, R. (2010). Moral Anger Is More Flexible Than Moral Disgust. Social Psychological and Personality Science, 2(4), 360–364. doi:10.1177/1948550610391678

July 26, 2012
Informal meeting

July 19, 2012
Joint lab meeting with Elizabeth Kensinger’s lab – discussed our research

July 12, 2012
Presenter: Elinor Amit

  • Trope, Y., & Liberman, N. (2010). Construal-level theory of psychological distance. Psychological Review, 117(2), 440–463. doi:10.1037/a0018963
  • Amit, E., Algom, D., & Trope, Y. (2009). Distance-dependent processing of pictures and words. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 138(3), 400–415. doi:10.1037/a0015835
  • Amit, E., & Greene, J. D. (2012). You See, the Ends Don’t Justify the Means: Visual Imagery and Moral Judgment. Psychological Science, 23(8), 861–868. doi:10.1177/0956797611434965

July 05, 2012
Joint lab meeting with Elizabeth Kensinger’s lab – discussed our research

June 14, 2012
Presenters: Josh Rottman, Jordan Theriault, Lily Tsoi

May 31, 2012
Presenter: James Dungan

May 10, 2012
Presenters: James Dungan and Alek Chakroff

May 03, 2012
Presenter: Abby Stemper

  • Goodwin, G. P., & Darley, J. M. (2012). Why are some moral beliefs perceived to be more objective than others? Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 48(1), 250–256. doi:10.1016/j.jesp.2011.08.006

April 26, 2012
Presenter: Joe Paxton

  • Haidt, J. (2001). The emotional dog and its rational tail: A social intuitionist approach to moral judgment. Psychological Review, 108(4), 814–834. doi:10.1037//0033-295X.108.4.814

April 19, 2012
Presenter: Danny Baush

April 12, 2012
Presenter: Josh Rottman

  • Rottman, J., & Kelemen, D. (under review). Aliens behaving badly: children’s acquisition of novel purity-based morals.

April 05, 2012
No meeting – Easter Break!

March 29, 2012
Presenter: Larisa Heiphetz

  • Banerjee, R., Yuill, N., Larson, C., Easton, K., Robinson, E., & Rowley, M. (2007). Children’s differentiation between beliefs about matters of fact and matters of opinion. Developmental Psychology, 43(5), 1084–1096. doi:10.1037/0012-1649.43.5.1084
  • Heiphetz, L., Spelke, E.S., & Banaji, M.R. (under review). Patterns of Implicit and Explicit Attitudes in Children and Adults: Tests in the Domain of Religion.

March 22, 2012
Presenter: Sherri Widen

  • Arsenio, W. F., & Kramer, R. (1992). Victimizers and Their Victims: Children’s Conceptions of the Mixed Emotional Consequences of Moral Transgressions. Child Development, 63(4), 915–927. doi:10.1111/j.1467-8624.1992.tb01671.x

March 15, 2012
Brainstorming session!

March 08, 2012
No meeting – Spring Break!

March 01, 2012
Presenter: Alek Chakroff

  • Graham, J., Nosek, B. A., Haidt, J., Iyer, R., Koleva, S., & Ditto, P. H. (2011). Mapping the moral domain. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 101(2), 366–385. doi:10.1037/a0021847
  • Lashkari, D., Sridharan, R., Vul, E., Hsieh, P.-J., Kanwisher, N., & Golland, P. (2010). Nonparametric hierarchical Bayesian model for functional brain parcellation (pp. 15–22). IEEE. doi:10.1109/CVPRW.2010.5543434

February 23, 2012
Presenter: Mary Kayyal

  • Chapman, H. A., & Anderson, A. K. (2012). Understanding disgust. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences. doi:10.1111/j.1749-6632.2011.06369.x
  • Rozin, P., Lowery, L., Imada, S., & Haidt, J. (1999). The CAD triad hypothesis: A mapping between three moral emotions (contempt, anger, disgust) and three moral codes (community, autonomy, divinity). Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 76(4), 574–586. doi:10.1037/0022-3514.76.4.574

February 16, 2012
Presenter: Kristen Lindquist

  • Lindquist, K. A., & Barrett, L. F. (2008). Constructing Emotion: The Experience of Fear as a Conceptual Act. Psychological Science, 19(9), 898–903. doi:10.1111/j.1467-9280.2008.02174.x
  • Lindquist, K.A., Wager, T.D., Kober, H., Bliss-Moreau, E., & Barrett, L.F. (in press). The brain basis of emotion: A meta-analytic review. Behavioral and Brain Sciences. doi:10.1017/S0140525X11000446

February 09, 2012
Presenter: Angelina Hawley-Dolan

  • Hawley-Dolan, A., & Winner, E. (2011). Seeing the Mind Behind the Art: People Can Distinguish Abstract Expressionist Paintings From Highly Similar Paintings by Children, Chimps, Monkeys, and Elephants. Psychological Science, 22(4), 435–441. doi:10.1177/0956797611400915
  • Bloom, P. (2004). Descartes’ baby how the science of child development explains what makes us human. New York: Basic Books. (pp. 65-95)

February 02, 2012
Presenter: none; brainstorming session!

January 19, 2012
Presenter: Jorie Koster-Hale

  • Mur, M., Bandettini, P. A., & Kriegeskorte, N. (2008). Revealing representational content with pattern-information fMRI–an introductory guide. Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, 4(1), 101–109. doi:10.1093/scan/nsn044
  • Young, L., & Saxe, R. (2009). Innocent intentions: A correlation between forgiveness for accidental harm and neural activity. Neuropsychologia, 47(10), 2065–2072. doi:10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2009.03.020

December 08, 2011
Presenter: Joe Pochedly

  • Chapman, H. A., & Anderson, A. K. (2011). Varieties of Moral Emotional Experience. Emotion Review, 3(3), 255-257. doi:10.1177/1754073911402389
  • Royzman, E., & Kurzban, R. (2011). Minding the Metaphor: The Elusive Character of Moral Disgust. Emotion Review, 3(3), 269-271. doi:10.1177/1754073911402371
  • Chapman, H. A., & Anderson, A. K. (2011). Response to Royzman and Kurzban. Emotion Review, 3(3), 272-273. doi:10.1177/1754073911402400
  • Royzman, E., & Kurzban, R. (2011). Facial Movements Are Not Goosebumps: A Response to Chapman and Anderson. Emotion Review, 3(3), 274-275. doi:10.1177/1754073911402402
  • Kelly, D. (in press). Moral disgust and the tribal instincts hypothesis. In R. Joyce, K. Sterelny and B. Calcott (eds.), Signaling, Commitment and Emotion. MIT Press.

December 01, 2011
Presenter: Diana Tamir

  • Mar, R. A. (2011). The Neural Bases of Social Cognition and Story Comprehension. Annual Review of Psychology, 62(1), 103-134. doi:10.1146/annurev-psych-120709-145406
  • Mar, R., Oatley, K., Hirsh, J., Delapaz, J., & Peterson, J. (2006). Bookworms versus nerds: Exposure to fiction versus non-fiction, divergent associations with social ability, and the simulation of fictional social worlds. Journal of Research in Personality, 40(5), 694-712. doi:10.1016/j.jrp.2005.08.002

November 17, 2011
Presenter: Peter DeScioli

  • DeScioli, P., & Kurzban, R. (2009). Mysteries of morality. Cognition, 112, 281-299. doi:10.1016/j.cognition.2009.05.008
  • DeScioli, P., Christner, J., & Kurzban, R. (2011). The Omission Strategy. Psychological Science, 22, 442-446. doi:10.1177/0956797611400616

November 03, 2011
Presenter: Adrian Ward

  • Gray, K., & Ward, A.F. (under review). The harm hypothesis: Perceived harm unifies morality.
  • Gray, K., Ward, A.F., & Norton, M.I. (under review). Paying it Forward.

October 20, 2011
Presenter: Josh Rottman

  • Graham, J., Haidt, J., & Nosek, B. A. (2009). Liberals and conservatives rely on different sets of moral foundations. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 96, 1029-1046. doi:10.1037/a0015141
  • Janoff-Bulman, R. (2009). To Provide or Protect: Motivational Bases of Political Liberalism and Conservatism. Psychological Inquiry, 20, 120-128. doi:10.1080/10478400903028581
  • Jost, J. T., Nosek, B. A., & Gosling, S. D. (2008). Ideology: Its Resurgence in Social, Personality, and Political Psychology. Perspectives on Psychological Science, 3, 126-136. doi:10.1111/j.1745-6916.2008.00070.x
  • http://www.slate.com/blogs/bigsort/2008/10/28/difference_between_rs_and_ds_it_s_all_in_the_stuff.html

October 13, 2011
Presenter: Chaz Lively

  • Morewedge, C.K., & Schooler, J. (in press). When group membership reduces mind attribution. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology.
  • Zaki, J., Bolger, N., et al. (2008). It takes two: The interpersonal nature of empathic accuracy. Psychological Science, 19(4), 399–404. doi:10.1111/j.1467-9280.2008.02099.x
  • (optional) Hans, V.P. (2001). The power of twelve: The impact of jury size and unanimity on civil jury decision making. 4 Delaware Law Review 1.
  • (optional) Feddersen, T., & Pesendorfer, W. (1998). Convicting the innocent: The inferiority of unanimous jury verdicts under strategic voting. American Political Science Review, 92(1), 23-35.

October 06, 2011
Presenter: James Dungan

September 29, 2011
Presenter: Jordan Theriault

  • Liu, B., & Peter, D., H. (under review). What Dilemma? Moral Intuitions Shape Factual Beliefs.
  • McGraw, A. P., & Tetlock, P. E. (2005). Taboo Trade-Offs, Relational Framing, and the Acceptability of Exchanges. Journal of Consumer Psychology, 15, 2-15. doi:10.1207/s15327663jcp1501_2
  • http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/16/opinion/16whitehead.html

September 22, 2011
Presenter: Alek Chakroff