November 2023
We went apple picking along with the Social Influence and Social Change lab in order to welcome our new Project Manager, Adaeze Chukwudebe, and say farewell to our visiting scholar, Aurore Gaboriaud!
October 2023
Lab members Trys, Mookie, Adaeze, and Stelios hosted two booths, “Identity Mapping” and “What Makes a Person ‘Virtuous’?”, at the CARNIVAL event during the Cambridge Science Festival! It was a great day of sharing our research with the greater Boston community!
August 2023
Our lab had a blast playing with laser phasers in a couple rounds of intense laser tag to say goodbye to Nathan, who will be heading to graduate school later this month, and to welcome our two newest post-bacc researchers, Jodie and Thomas!
Despite torrential downpour, the lab made its way to White Mountain Creamery for an ice cream social to celebrate the hard work of our summer Research Assistants. Thank you, RAs!
June 2023
Our lab took a trip to Puttshack to celebrate Minjae’s graduation and to say goodbye to both her and Sunny. Despite Marcus’s best efforts, Trys walked away with the victory.
Our lab is excited to be collaborating with Reservoir Church in Cambridge! Last Sunday, lab members Jordan Wylie and Mookie Manalili and collaborator Abby McLaughlin explored the concept of moral curiosity with some of Reservoir’s youngest members.
May 2023
We celebrated the end of Ryan’s time in the lab with an epic trip to Level99, where we climbed, swung, and thought very hard! After all this work, we presented Ryan with some special gifts and closed with a lovely lab dinner. We’ll miss you, Ryan!
We’re so proud of our two phenomenal graduating Ph.D. students, Minjae Kim and Ryan McManus! Both have successfully defended their dissertations, and are exceptional scholars, mentors, and people. Congratulations to Dr. Kim and Dr. McManus!
April 2023
April has been full of happy news in the Morality Lab! We’re delighted to announce that this coming year, former lab coordinator Aditi Kodipady will be joining Kristina Olson as a Ph.D. student at Princeton University, research analyst Sunny Liu will be joining Anna Jenkins as a Ph.D. student at the University of Pennsylvania, project manager Nathan Liang will be joining Laura Niemi as a Ph.D. student at Cornell University, and graduating grad student Minjae Kim will be joining Shari Liu as a postdoc at Johns Hopkins University! We can’t wait to see the amazing work they all do next!
We’re also proud to announce that first-year graduate student Trystan Loustau has received a Doctoral Fellowship from the Clough Center for the Study of Constitutional Democracy! She will be joining first-year graduate student Marcus Trenfield, a current Clough Center fellow. Congratulations, Trys!
March 2023
We’re so excited to announce two wonderful pieces of lab news: first, our project manager Nathan Liang received the National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship (NSF GRFP) for his graduate studies next year (stay tuned for more exciting grad school news).
Second, lab alum Brendan Bo O’Connor was awarded tenure and promoted to Associate Professor at the University of Albany.
A huge congratulations to Nathan and Brendan!
February 2023
We had a great time presenting our findings, meeting old friends and new collaborators, and exploring the beautiful city of Atlanta for the SPSP (Society for Personality and Social Psychology) annual conference! A special shout-out to undergraduate RA Helen Padilla Fong, who received a Diversity Undergraduate Registration Award, and to graduate student Isaac Handley-Miner, who was a runner-up for the Graduate Student Poster Awards!
