Cornell University Welcomes Participants to Moral Psychology Summer Institute

With its lakes, hills and wineries, Ithaca is a great place to spend a summer. It’s also a great place to study moral psychology, with Cornell University’s renowned faculty experts, speaker series and a multi-disciplinary minor offered in the field.

These strengths combined as Cornell hosted the Summer Institute for Moral Psychology June 24 – July 19, funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH).

Directed by College of Arts and Sciences (A&S) faculty in psychology and philosophy, the institute featured presentations from many leading figures in moral psychology, which studies human thought and behavior in ethical contexts.

“The moment for the institute is perfect – urgent, really. We need sharing and expansion of intellectual resources for moral psychologists at all levels of the academy now,” said Laura Niemi, assistant professor of psychology (A&S), faculty director of the Dyson Leadership Development Program in the SC Johnson College of Business, and one of the institute’s three directors, along with John Doris, the Peter L. Dyson Professor of Ethics in Organizations and Life in the Cornell SC Johnson College of Business and professor in the Sage School of Philosophy (A&S); and Shaun Nichols, Distinguished Professor of Arts & Sciences in Philosophy (A&S).