Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology, College of Arts and Sciences & Management and Organizations, Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management, SC Johnson College of Business, Cornell University
I am P.I. of the Applied Moral Psychology Lab which combines methodologies from social psychology, cognitive science, and psychology of language to understand the psychological underpinnings of human morality & investigates how methods and findings from moral psychology research can be applied to address social issues.
My work has received funding from the National Science Foundation, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the National Endowment for the Arts, the National Institute of Health, Cornell Center for Social Sciences, the Templeton Foundation, the Ontario Ministry of the Solicitor General, and the Harvard Fund for Research on Foundations of Human Behavior. I teach The Psychology of Good and Evil, Moral Psychology in Action, and Work and Well-Being.
MY BACKGROUND
My graduate training was at Boston College in Social Psychology and Social Neuroscience. I received my Ph.D. in 2015, for research on moral values, advised by Dr. Liane Young at the Morality Lab.
I completed a postdoctoral fellowship in the Department of Psychology at Harvard University (2015 – 2017) with advisors Dr. Steven Pinker and Dr. Jesse Snedeker. I conducted an interdisciplinary project called The Psycholinguistics of Morality.
I did a second postdoc with Dr. Walter Sinnott-Armstrong in the Department of Philosophy and Dr. Felipe De Brigard in the Department of Cognitive Neuroscience at Duke University (2017 – 2018). I worked on projects on causal cognition, moral decision-making, and social epistemology.
I completed my first year (2018-2019) as a professor in the Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy at the University of Toronto as a tenure-track Assistant Professor of Social Psychology and Global Affairs. I started the Applied Moral Psychology Lab. I was Visiting Professor in Psychology from 2019-2020 at Cornell University.
I began a tenure-track Assistant Professor position at Cornell University in July 2020 in the Department of Psychology, College of Arts and Sciences & in Management and Organizations, Dyson School, SC Johnson College of Business.
LAURA NIEMI, PHD 