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.

Lia Aldea-Lustig | Master’s Student

Lia is a first-year Master’s student in Human Development. She earned her B.S. from Cornell University, where she worked as a research assistant for Dr. Laura Niemi. Her research interests include moral decision-making in AI contexts and how people reason about emerging moral issues, particularly behaviors that are currently ambiguous or contested but may be viewed differently in the future. Outside of research, she enjoys snow and water skiing, making art, and traveling.

Tianyi Xiong | Master’s Student

Tianyi is a Master’s student in Developmental Psychology. She is interested in how morality shapes people’s imagination, as well as the role of emotion in moral reasoning. Outside of research, she enjoys spending time with her cat and playing video games.

Jacqueline Bass | Undergraduate Research Assistant

Jacque is a senior majoring in Human Development and minoring in Inequality Studies and Law and Society. She is interested in the insertion between psychology and law. Outside of research she enjoys reading, knitting, and dancing.

Anna Cloonan | Thesis Student

Anna is a senior 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. 

Jimin Hong | Undergraduate Research Assistant

Jimin is a sophomore majoring in Human Development. She is interested in the ways morality influences behavior and perception. Outside of research, she likes to dye her hair a variety of different colors.

Aleena Naeem | Undergraduate Research Assistant

Aleena is a sophomore majoring in Psychology at Cornell University and planning to pursue medicine. She is interested in psychiatry, particularly the neurobiological underpinnings of mental disorders and their influence on social contexts such as moral judgment. Outside of research, Aleena enjoys making art and reading.

Darien Schultz | Undergraduate Research Assistant

Darien is a senior 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. 

Clarice Xu | Undergraduate Research Assistant

Clarice is a sophomore majoring in Healthcare Policy with a planned minor in Cognitive Science. She spent her first semester in Washington, D.C., as a DC Start Scholar with the Cornell Jeb E. Brooks School of Public Policy. Clarice is particularly interested in how personal moral judgments shape real-world decision-making, especially in healthcare and social policy. Outside of research, she writes for the Cornell Healthcare Review, volunteers as a counselor with Crisis Text Line, and enjoys playing tennis.

Vivian Xu | Undergraduate Research Assistant

Vivian is a sophomore majoring in Health Care Policy at Cornell University. She is interested in how moral psychology influences aging and health policy, particularly policies shaping care and support systems for individuals with neurocognitive disorders and their caregivers. Outside of research, she enjoys volunteering, listening to music, going to concerts, and spending time with her six-years old Corgi.

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.