Understanding the Moral Mind

David Pizarro, associate professor in the Department of Psychology at Cornell University, will deliver the opening 2015 Shulman Lecture in Science and the Humanities.

The Shulman Lectures are organized in conjunction with a Yale College seminar taught by Professors Paul Bloom and Tamar Gendler. The four lectures in the series will explore the topic of “Habits of Mind.”

Pizarro’s primary research interest is in how and why humans make moral judgments, such as what makes us think certain actions are wrong and that some people deserve blame. He also studies how emotions influence a wide variety of judgments. These two topics come together in much of his recent work, which has focused on disgust and the role it plays in shaping moral, social, and political judgments.

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