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…
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…
Azim, Iyad Rahwan and Jean-François Bonnefon have written an op-ed for the New York Times about driverless car ethics. Link is here. The research it’s based on can be found here.
Azim will be hosting a workshop for early career Psych of Religion researchers October 6th to 9th, and is now accepting applications from grad students who are interested in joining. See here for more details http://sharifflab.com/workshop/
Azim’s new paper with Jean-François Bonnefon and Iyad Rahwan on the ethics of autonomous vehicles now out in Science. Paper is available here. Abstract below. Be sure to check out the accompanying website http://moralmachine.mit.edu/ to test your own ethical attitudes and design your own scenarios. Josh Greene’s perspective of the piece is available here. …
As of Summer 2016, Azim and the CaML will move down the street to a new home at the University of California, Irvine. Thanks to all the tremendous support over the last six years at the University of Oregon.
Azim’s new paper with Dylan Wiwad and Lara Aknin now published in Perspectives on Psychological Science. This paper looks at how the perception of income mobility makes people more tolerant of income inequality. Abstract below and paper available here. American politicians often justify income inequality by referencing the opportunities people have to move between…