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Professor of Psychology | Harvard University

For many years our lab has studied moral judgment and decision making . More recently, we’ve been working on behavioral research aimed at social impact and basic research aimed at understanding the brain’s infrastructure for complex thought . This new research on high-level cognition is focused on “compositionally”, the way that concepts combine to form larger ideas. We are interested in how ideas are composed using language, in our imaginations, in reasoning, and in planning. This work uses both functional

Our research on moral cognition  has focused on the respective contributions of intuitive emotional processes and more reasoned and reflective processes. We have applied this dual-process framework to classic hypothetical dilemmas, real temptations toward dishonesty, beliefs about free will and punishment, belief in God, wishful thinking, and cooperation. Our current social scientific research addresses real-world challenges. Topics include the governance autonomous vehicles, making charitable donations mor

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