Mind and Morality Lab
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The Mind & Morality Lab is a developmental psychology lab at Brown University in the Cognitive & Psychological Sciences Department run by Dr. Julia Marshall.
Check out https://linktr.ee/mindmoralitylab to get involved!
Who and what does your child care about, and why? We asked kids a simple but revealing question: if you could only save one person or thing, who would it be? Their answers give us a window into how children’s values and moral thinking grow and change over time. We’re actively studying this in our lab at Brown, and we’d love for your family to be involved. Click this link to sign up: https://sites.brown.edu/mindmoralitylab/for-families/ ! 💛💙
Ever wonder what it’s like to work in a research lab as an undergraduate? Follow along with Matan Lerner, one of our undergraduate research assistants, as he takes us through a real day balancing research and college life. 🔬
Interested in getting involved? Reach out to us at [email protected] — we’d love to hear from you!
A look into the work of Gabi Molinari, a lead undergraduate research assistant and directed reading student at the Mind and Morality Lab!
04/28/2026
Research Highlight: Sophia Visconte! Sophia is a sophomore studying English and Psychology with a tertiary focus in American Sign Language. She has been working with the Mind and Morality Lab for three semesters and counting, most recently as a Lead Research Assistant and through the UTRA program. Sophia is interested in the development of bias and discrimination in children. She hopes to better understand how, why, and when children learn discriminatory behaviors and how those behaviors can be minimized. Currently, Sophia is working on two projects with Dr. Vivian Liu in our lab. The first centers on the degree to which children reject or endorse harmful actions based on group membership, while the second explores how children perceive compensating workers for their output vs effort. Sophia looks forward to continuing to research and explore these complex and nuanced topics!
04/19/2026
Scenes from the Mind and Morality Lab at the Cognitive Development Society (CDS) Conference! Last weekend, several members of the lab attended, presented, and spoke at the conference in Montreal. Here’s what they covered (in order of post images):
Amy Lu: S1.3 Drawing the moral circle: How children engage with diverse and expanding moral responsibilities
Sam Reisman: P2-134 Children use emotions to flexibly learn social norms
Virginia Cano: P2-132 Parents’ Moral Concern Shapes Children’s Moral Concern: Evidence for Socialization in the Development of Moral Expansiveness
Fia Boffey: P3-135 Cognitive Reflection Predicts Children’s Moral Concern
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Dr. Julia Marshall: WS6 Intuitive theories of care and protection in development
+ a bonus slide enjoying dinner!
03/16/2026
RAs Karsten, Sophia, and Gabriela had a blast meeting interested students at the Lab Fair this week. M&M represent!
03/16/2026
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Introducing Virginia, one of our amazing lab managers!
03/16/2026
Meet Sam Reisman! Sam (she/her) is a fourth-year P.H.D. student, and graduate research assistant at the Mind and Morality Lab. Her research focuses on how children use other’s emotions when making social decisions. Sam also has pet dog, and her favorite vacation was cave diving with sharks in Australia!
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