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Azim Shariff is Associate Professor of Psychology and Canada 150 Research Chair of Moral Psychology at the University of British Columbia, where he directs the 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.

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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.

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Nick is a graduate student in social-personality psychology at the University of British Columbia. His research focuses on the macro-level drivers of rapid cultural change and its psychological consequences.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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. Job speaks Chinese Mandarin and Cantonese as a native.

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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.

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Joe completed his master’s degree with Azim in 2015. He is now pursuing his PhD with Morteza Dehghani and Jesse Graham at the University of Southern California.

Carissa completed her postdoc with Azim in 2014. She is now a research fellow at Newman University in the UK, working primarily with the “Science and Religion: Exploring the Spectrum” Research Group.

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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.

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Bethany was our lab manager from 2012 to 2014. She is now pursuing a PhD in social psychology with Rebecca Neel at the University of Iowa.

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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). She is interested in the intersection of social, biological, and clinical variables, and as of Fall 2016, has started her PhD with Jennifer Tackett at Northwestern University. Cassie enjoys culinary pursuits, comedy, Freddie Mercury, Keanu Reeves, and music from the golden age of the 1990s.

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John Michael is a second-year doctoral student interested in moral, political, and religious psychology—particularly where these areas intersect. He is a proud Iowan and Northwestern alum who’s giving this whole West Coast thing a try.

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Hyunjin is a Ph.D. student in the Department of Psychology supervised by Dr. Friedrich Götz. Her research interests include social mobility, economic inequality, personality and cross-cultural differences. She is from Korea.

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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.

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