Graduate Students

Eloïse Côté

Éloïse is a PhD student in the MAP Lab. She completed her undergrad and master's studies in social psychology at the University of Montreal. She is interested in moral and political psychology. She also enjoys reading, doing yoga, and travelling.

Zachary Grey

Zach is a PhD student in the MAP Lab. He completed his undergraduate degree in psychology and philosophy and his master's in industrial relations and human resources. His research interests span a wide range of topics in moral psychology, with a particular emphasis on moral disagreements—their contexts, content, and consequences. Zach is also a founding member of Being and Becoming, a Toronto non-profit organization aimed at providing opportunities for the philosophical exploration of ideas, questions, and experiences to the general public.

Ben Lawson

Ben is a PhD student in the MAP Lab. He completed his undergraduate degree in psychology and political science at McGill University before working at the Montreal Children's Hospital in pediatric allergy and immunology research. His research interests primarily focus on comparing dispositional and coalitional determinants of political beliefs. In his free time Ben enjoys being a history nerd, playing Dungeons and Dragons, and fishing.

Jesse Reid

Jesse is a PhD student in the MAP Lab. He completed his undergraduate degree at the University of Western Australia, and his master's degree at Toronto Metropolitan University. His interests centre around political and environmental psychology. In his spare time, he also enjoys music, soccer, and finding coffee that lives up to his (unfortunately) snobby Australian standards.

Affiliates

Paige Amormino

Paige is an NIH T32 Postdoctoral Fellow at Pennsylvania State University working with Dr. Daryl Cameron in the Empathy and Moral Psychology Lab. She studies morality in the real world: how people decide whose well-being matters, what others deserve, and when they are responsible for helping. She collaborates with Dr. Inbar on projects related to praise and character judgments, as well as virtue ethics.

Sarah Michel

Sarah is a fourth-year undergrad at Yale University. At Yale, she is part of Melissa Ferguson's lab, where she explores the intersection of her interest in moral and implicit cognition. She also works with Laurie Santos, aiding in her social content creation. Her current research with the MAP Lab focuses on the mechanisms driving other-serving moral standards. Outside of her own research, Sarah runs a social media account – psivision – where she shares academic behavioral science work to a broad audience.

Alumni

Ellen Evers

Ellen is currently an associate professor of Marketing at the Haas School of Business, UC Berkeley, and was previously a postdoctoral fellow at the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania. Ellen completed her PhD at Tilburg University with Dr. Inbar. She is interested in judgment and decision making and focuses on how the human tendency to group and categorize things affects decisions. Currently she is investigating how the organization of assortments influences liking, how people become collectors, and how mental categories affect mental accounting.

Zoë Francis

Zoë is an Assistant Professor of Psychology at the University of the Fraser Valley. She completed her PhD at the University of Toronto with Dr. Michael Inzlicht. In her work with Dr. Inbar, she examined how people's sense of control affects their acceptance of new scientific technologies that increase or decrease personal autonomy. She is also interested in religiosity and other individual differences.

Steph Schwartz

Steph is a part-time teaching stream faculty member at the University of Toronto, Scarborough. She completed her PhD at the University of Toronto with Dr. Inbar. Her research investigates patterns of attitudes towards a wide range of technologies. She also studies the ways in which our perceptions of others' moral values influence our judgments of their actions and characters.

Gabi Waldhof

Gabi received her PhD summa cum laude from the University of Hamburg. After a postdoc position at the University of Osnabrück, Department of Environmental Economics, she joined KWS Saat in October 2024 as a data analyst for market and consumer research. At KWS, she conducts studies in about 30 countries world-wide. Using survey methods, experimental designs and expert interviews, she determines attitudes towards new food developments, the willingness-to-pay for distinctive traits, as well as judgments on non-monetary factors, such as reliability, loyalty and awareness.

Nina Wang

Nina is an Assistant Professor at York University's Glendon College. She completed her PhD at the University of Toronto with Dr. Inbar. In her research, Nina is using techniques from natural language processing to study issues in moral and political psychology. She is interested in the ways moral language is deployed by politicians on social issues, and the role of social media in driving polarization and spreading misinformation.

Job van Wolferen

Job is currently a supervision employee at the Dutch Authority of Financial Markets. He received his Ph.D in Social and Behavioral Sciences from Tilburg University in September 2014. His research interests include behavioral economics, judgment and decision-making, and economic psychology.