Molly Crockett, PhD

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Dr. Molly Crockett is an Associate Professor in Psychology at the University Center for Human Values at Princeton University. Crockett’s lab investigates social cognition: how people decide whether to help or harm, punish or forgive, trust or condemn. Their research integrates theory and methods from psychology, neuroscience, economics, philosophy, and data science. Crockett’s recent work has explored moral outrage in the digital age and trust in leaders during a pandemic.

Reading List: 

• Prosocial correlates of transformative experience at secular multi-day mass gatherings
• Moral dilemmas and trust in leaders during a global health crisis
• How social learning amplifies moral outrage expression in online social networks
• The relational logic of moral inference
• Narrating the “what” and “why” of our moral actions