Starting July 1st, the CaML will move to the University of British Columbia in Vancouver. Azim will take up appointment as the Canada 150 Research Chair in Moral Psychology, and the Culture and Morality Lab will update its name to the Centre for Applied Moral Psychology. We’ll also be looking for a new lab manager to start this Fall. Details to follow.

Shankar Vedantam discussed some of our new work looking at how differently people perceive Muslim and non-Muslim mass shooters. Vedantam discusses the work on NPR’s morning edition here. You can read our working paper on the topic here.    

Watch Azim’s Aspen Ideas Fest talk on Self-Driving Cars: https://www.aspenideas.org/session/confront-moral-conundrums-who-should-self-driving-cars-save

Enroll in Azim’s co-taught (with Dr. Ted Slingerland) MOOC on the Science of Religion! The course started September 18th, but you can still sign up for a couple of weeks!

The Science of Religion, a new massively open online course (MOOC), taught by Ted Slingerland and Azim Shariff starts its first run March 15, 2007. Each run of the course is hosted by edX and will last 6 weeks, and will be freely available to anyone who wants to sign up. In it we cover the latest research on the attempts to understand religion from a scientific perspective. You can sign up for free and find more information at the...