Graduate Students
Eloïse Côté
Éloïse is a PhD student in the MAP Lab. She completed her undergrad and master’s studies in social psychology at the University of Montreal. She is interested in moral and political psychology. She also enjoys reading, doing yoga, and travelling.
Zachary Grey
Zach is a PhD student in the MAP Lab. He completed his undergraduate degree in psychology and philosophy and his master's in industrial relations and human resources. His research interests span a wide range of topics in moral psychology, with a particular emphasis on moral disagreements—their contexts, content, and consequences. Zach is also a founding member of Being and Becoming, a Toronto non-profit organization aimed at providing opportunities for the philosophical exploration of ideas, questions, and experiences to the general public.
Ben Lawson
Ben is a PhD student in the MAP lab. He completed his undergraduate degree in psychology and political science at McGill University before working at the Montreal Children's Hospital in pediatric allergy and immunology research. His research interests primarily focus on comparing dispositional and coalitional determinants of political beliefs. In his free time Ben enjoys being a history nerd, playing Dungeons and Dragons, and fishing.
Jesse Reid
Jesse is a PhD student in the MAP Lab. He completed his undergraduate degree at the University of Western Australia, and his master’s degree at Toronto Metropolitan University. His interests centre around political and environmental psychology. In his spare time, he also enjoys music, soccer, and finding coffee that lives up to his (unfortunately) snobby Australian standards.
Alumni
Ellen Evers
Ellen is currently an associate professor of Marketing at the Haas School of Business, UC Berkeley, and was previously a postdoctoral fellow at the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania. Ellen received her Ph.D. in Social and Behavioral Sciences from Tilburg University in February 2015. She is interested in judgment and decision making and focuses on how the human tendency to group and categorize things affects decisions. Currently she is investigating how the organization of assortments influences liking, how people become collectors, and how mental categories affect mental accounting.
Zoë Francis
Zoë is an Assistant Professor of Psychology at the University of the Fraser Valley. She completed her PhD at the University of Toronto with Dr. Michael Inzlicht. In her work with Dr. Inbar, she examined how people's sense of control affects their acceptance of new scientific technologies that increase or decrease personal autonomy. She is also interested in religiosity and other individual differences.
Steph Schwartz
Steph is a part-time teaching stream faculty member at the University of Toronto, Scarborough. Her research investigates patterns of attitudes towards a wide range of technologies. She also studies the ways in which our perceptions of others’ moral values influence our judgments of their actions and characters.
Nina Wang
Nina is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Cornell University. She completed her PhD at the University of Toronto with Dr. Inbar. In her research, Nina is using techniques from natural language processing to study issues in moral and political psychology. She is interested in the ways moral language is deployed by politicians on social issues, and the role of social media in driving polarization and spreading misinformation.
Job van Wolferen
Job is currently a supervision employee at the Dutch Authority of Financial Markets. He received his Ph.D in Social and Behavioral Sciences from Tilburg University in September 2014. His research interests include behavioral economics, judgment and decision-making, and economic psychology.