People

Azim Shariff is a Professor of Psychology and Canada 150 Research Chair of Moral Psychology at the University of British Columbia, where he directs CAMP. He completed his undergraduate degree at the University of Toronto in 2004, and his doctoral degree at UBC in 2010. He then brain-drained to America for eight years at the Universities of Oregon and California, before moving back to Vancouver and UBC in 2018.

Gabrielle Ibasco is a Ph.D. student in social-personality psychology at the University of British Columbia, co-supervised by Dr. Azim Shariff and Dr. Jessica Tracy. Her research interests include moral emotions, moral ideologies, and the implications they have for social justice and group/intergroup processes.

Nick is a graduate student in social-personality psychology at the University of British Columbia. His research focuses on the socioecological forces that give rise to cultural variation across time and space. He uses Big Data along with methods such as Latent Profile Analysis, Natural Language Processing, Agent-Based Modelling to study topics such as value systems and their historical origins, global variation in the stability of national cultures, and divergence in cultural values between the left and right.

Charul is a graduate student in social-personality psychology at the University of British Columbia, co-supervised by Azim Shariff and Elizabeth Dunn. She is interested in well-being, social connection, culture, and the transmission of moral information.

Fiona manages day-to-day operations at CAMP.

Brett was a post-doctoral student and is currently at the University of Toronto. His research focuses on religious beliefs, attitudes towards and consequences of economic inequality, and political bias and polarization.

Will is a graduate student in social-personality psychology at the University of British Columbia, co-advised by Azim Shariff and Kristin Laurin. He is interested in the moral implications of emerging technologies, folk moral psychology, and the process of rationalization.

Hyunjin is an Assistant Professor at California State University San Marcos. Prior to that she was a research scientist at UBC working with Friedrich Goetz, after completing her PhD with Azim Shariff and Paul Piff at UC Irvine. Her research interests include social mobility, economic inequality, personality and cross-cultural differences. She is from Korea.

Stephanie graduated in 2016 and studied how developmental, cultural, and contextual influences affect religiosity and moral decision making. She also studied religious and other ideological groups as coalitions. As of 2016, Stephanie has been working at the Pew Research Center in Washington, DC.

Zhen graduated in 2018 and is currently a postdoctoral researcher at the Portland Veteran Affairs. Her research examines how experiences of bias, stereotypes, and stigma contribute to mental health and educational disparities, and how cultural factors such as ethnicity and spirituality/religion affect academic achievement and mental health outcomes.

Zhuo "Job" Chen graduated in 2016. He is now an assistant professor at Clemson University. His research focuses on psychology of religion and spirituality, mysticism, culture and ideology, and the self. He has expertise and interest in quantitative and qualitative methodology, and welcomes research collaboration both intra- and inter-disciplinary.

Ezra completed his dissertation with Sara Hodges and Azim in 2012. After two postdocs at Columbia and Princeton Universities, he took a faculty position at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst.

Joe is a Principal AI Scientist at IR Labs. Prior to that he worked as Responsible AI Research Manager at Apple after completing his PhD with Morteza Dehghani and Jesse Graham at the University of Southern California.

Carissa is an Associate Professor studying the Psychology of Religion at the University of Birmingham in the UK.

Cassie earned her B.S. in Psychology and Religious Studies from the University of Oregon, and was an RA, honors student and eventually lab manager in the CaML (as well as the Social Psychoneuroendocrinology Lab). As of Fall 2016, she started her PhD with Jennifer Tackett at Northwestern University.

Bethany is currently a postdoctoral associate studying social and developmental psychology in the Cognitive Development Lab at New York University, after completing her PhD with Dr. Rebecca Neel at the University of Iowa.

John Michael Kelly is a researcher interested in moral, political, and religious psychology — particularly where these areas intersect. He completed his graduate work with the CAMP lab.

Thomas was our lab manager from 2010 to 2011. He now co-owns and runs downtown Eugene's coffeeshop/bar, The Barn Light, with a second location opening this summer.