Moral Psychology Laboratory
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Laboratory Director
Dr Simon Laham+61 3 8344 3974
Research Overview
The Moral Psychology Lab is dedicated to understanding the psychological bases of moral and ethical judgement, decision-making and behaviour. We draw upon social and cognitive psychology to explore the nature of morality and sociality, how people make moral judgements, biases inherent in ethical decision making, and factors that shape ethical reflection and behaviour. By better understanding how moral decisions and behaviours unfold, we hope to offer insight into ways of improving ethical decision-making in public and private life.
Staff
Current PhD students
(*indicates primary affiliation with this lab)
* Shaheed Azaad
* Damien Crone
* Michael Susman
* Ravini Abeywickrama
* Manuel Rengifo
* Fabricio Chagas-Bastos
* Garth Warren
* Michael Donner
Sarah Bonnell
Erin Lawn
Brodie Dakin
Milan Andrejevic
Past PhD students
Caitlin McCurrie, Kanishka Karunaratne, Hanne Watkins, Melissa Wheeler, Ain Simpson, Maria Abou-Abdullah, Julian Fernando, Shang-Hui Shin
Research Publications
For a full, regularly updated list of publications, see Google Scholar.
Forgas, J. P., Laham, S. M., & Vargas, P. T. (2005). Mood effects on eyewitness memory: Affective influences on susceptibility to misinformation. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 41(6), 574-588.
Laham, S. M., Gonsalkorale, K., & von Hippel, W. (2005). Darwinian grandparenting: Preferential investment in more certain kin. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 31(1), 63-72.
Laham, S. M., Koval, P., & Alter, A. L. (2012). The name-pronunciation effect: Why people like Mr. Smith more than Mr. Colquhoun. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 48(3), 752-756.
Azaad, S., Laham, S. M., & Shields, P. (2019). A meta-analysis of the object-based compatibility effect. Cognition, 190, 105-127.
Karunaratne, K., & Laham, S. M. (2019). Social Dominance Orientation Predicts Opposition to Hierarchy-Attenuating Intergroup Apologies. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 0146167219838549.