Jordan Wylie | Principal Investigator

Tori LeVier | Lab Manager

Tori graduated from the University of California, Santa Barbara. There, she completed an honors thesis with Dr. Hongbo Yu on the moral standing of blame at a group level. She was also the lab manager for Dr. Michael Beyeler’s Bionic Vision Lab, and an active research assistant in Dr. Regina Lapate’s LEAP Neuroscience Lab. Since then, she has pursued full time research at Princeton University working with Dr. Molly Crockett. Broadly, Tori is interested in positive social emotions such as empathy, and related prosocial motivations such as altruism, particularly in how they shape moral thought and behavior.

Charlotte Austin | Graduate Student

Charlotte is a first year graduate student, broadly interested in morality, decision making and curiosity. She’s from the UK, completing her undergraduate degree in psychology at Cardiff University, Wales. She then spent 3 years at Oxford University, first completing a masters in neuroscience and then spending 2 years as a research assistant at the Oxford Precision Psychiatry Lab and the Neuroscience Ethics and Society Group. She maintains a side interest in mental health research and the philosophy of mental illness and loves reading philosophy.

Nathan Liang | Graduate Student

Nathan is a third-year PhD student and NSF-GRFP Fellow. He completed his undergraduate studies at Duke and worked as a research assistant in Felipe De Brigard's Imagination and Modal Cognition Lab. After graduating, he was employed as a research specialist in Diana Tamir's Princeton Social Neuroscience Lab before joining Liane Young's Morality Lab at Boston College to facilitate field studies testing the impact of social norms on virtue. Nathan is interested in leveraging diverse methods in computational social science to model the relationship between rule adherence/deviance and social learning as well as the role of moral praise in enforcing cooperative behavior.

Anna Cloonan | Undergraduate Research Assistant

Anna is a junior majoring in Psychology and Music, and minoring in Moral Psychology. She is interested in understanding severe psychological disorders and how they manifest across different social and moral contexts. Outside of research, she plays the flute in the CU Wind Symphony where she also serves as treasurer, mentors adopted kids in the local Ithaca area, and is a member of Psi Chi, the International Honor Society in Psychology. 

Areli Esparza | Thesis Student

Areli is a senior majoring in Psychology. She is interested in psychopathology, particularly understanding how people perceive the world and the ways in which environmental factors influence psychological development and maladaptive behaviors that characterize mental illness. Outside of research, she is a peer mentor with Empathy, Assistance & Referral Services (EARS) and is a counselor for Crisis Text Line. In her free time, she enjoys going to concerts and watching sunsets.

Darien Schultz | Undergraduate Research Assistant

Darien is a junior majoring in Human Development and minoring in Education and Public Policy. She is interested in exploring the different factors that influence morality. Outside of research, she serves as an EARS peer mentor, volunteers with Big Red Buddies, and is an executive board member of her sorority. 

Amelia Stein | Undergraduate Research Assistant

Amelia is a senior majoring in Psychology at Cornell University. She is from New York City and is interested in personality and social psychology, with a focus on relationships and how social influences shape well-being. On campus, she is a member of Psi Chi, the International Honor Society in Psychology, and is involved with Hopelessly Yellow, a national digital platform dedicated to mental health awareness, where she serves as the Director of Marketing and Events.

Tianyi Xiong | Undergraduate Research Assistant

Tianyi is a senior undergraduate student majoring in Applied Psychology at Beijing Normal–Hong Kong Baptist University. She is interested in moral psychology and how moral processes influence cognition and behavior.

Luci “Little Red” Wylie | Lab Pup

Luci is a dedicated pup in the lab. Her responsibilities range from providing emotional support to demanding attention and/or snacks. She is currently pursuing a Ph Doggo in canine-human persuasion techniques.