News
2020
Curtis Puryear joins the lab as a postdoc
Thesis student Desman Wilson begins grad school at the Kellogg School of Business at Northwestern University
Research assistant Madison Swisher is accepted into a master’s program at UNC
Amelia Goranson is awarded her PhD and joins Knox College as a Visiting Assistant Professor
Yochanan Bigman begins a Postdoctoral Fellowship at Yale with Melissa Ferguson
Neil Hester is featured in the SPSP Spotlight
Sam Abrams is awarded an NSF GRFP
Rachel Ernstoff is awarded a Heterodox Academy Writing Fellowship
Josh Jackson is awarded (another) Templeton grant
2019
Neil Hester is awarded his PhD and begins his Postdoctoral Fellowship at McGill University with Eric Hehman
Frank Kachanoff joins the lab as a postdoc
DBL welcomes visiting scholar Curtis Puryear
DBL welcomes visiting scholar Cristian Rodriguez
DBL launches the CKF funded Center for the Science of Moral Understanding
Josh Jackson is awarded a Templeton grant
2018
Chelsea Schein graduates and begins postdoc at Wharton
Emily Kubin begins grad school at Tilburg with Mark Brandt
Stephen Anderson begins grad school at Penn State with Daryl Cameron
Chelsea Schein Wins Grand Prize for Best Paper, FRANK Public Interest and Communication Conference
God’s Face paper goes viral
Andy Vonasch begins tenure-track job at University of Canterbury, NZ
The 57-chapter Atlas of Moral Psychology is published
2017
Josh Jackson awarded an NSF Grow Summer Fellowship
Lab awarded grant from Charles Koch Foundation to study Marketplace of Ideas
Kurt Gray gives keynote address at SSSP
Kurt Gray awarded Sage Young Scholar Award
2016
Kurt Gray awarded University of Waterloo Young Alumni Award
John Michael Kelly begins grad school at UC Irvine with Pete Ditto
Kurt Gray awarded ISCON Early Career Award
Amelia Goranson and Josh Jackson both awarded NSF GRFs
Lab awarded grant from Charles Koch Foundation to study Markets and Morality
The Mind Club reviewed in the WSJ and New Scientist
The Mind Club is published
Lab awarded grant from the Russell Sage Foundation to study stereotyping
Lab research and The Mind Club featured in The New Yorker
2015
Lab research (and Kurt’s cats) featured in Slate
Kurt Gray and collaborators win ISCON Best Paper of the Year Award for ABM paper
Lab and collaborators awarded NSF grant to study ethics in organizations
Lab and collaborators awarded Templeton grant to study Imagination and Creativity
Chelsea Schein wins the UNC Psychology Club Research Mentor Award
MPM lab welcomes visiting scholar Hanne Watkins
Kurt Gray and Chelsea Schein write a NY Times Op-Ed
Lab dominates at trampoline dodgeball
2014
Lab welcomes new grad student Amelia Goranson
Lab welcomes visiting scholar Ryan Lantzy
Lab research on fashion covered in Slate
Lab research on group formation covered in Science Magazine
Kurt Gray awarded APS Janet Spence Award for Transformative Early Career Research
2013
Kurt Gray (with Liane Young and Adam Waytz) wins SPSP Theoretical Innovation Award
Lab is awarded a Templeton grant to study Immortality
Kurt Gray awarded a Psi Chi Undergraduate Teaching Award
Incoming student Neil Hester awarded a University Fellowship
Kurt Gray talks with Josh Knobe on Blogging Heads
Kurt Gray is named an APS Rising Star
Chelsea Schein awarded an NSF GRFP