Lab News
2025
  • November
    • Dr. Yucel was one of the invited speakers of the Moral Psychology Research Group’s online gathering. Missed her talk? worries. You can watch the recording: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nei1mHOeOu0​

    • ​Dr. Yucel gave a talk to MSU's Psi Chi Society on how people cooperate, make moral decisions, and how to get involved in exciting psychology research.
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    • We hosted our first external speaker at our lab meeting! Many thanks to Dr. Kaitlyn Werner for telling us about her cool work on emotion regulation!

  • October
    • Our research was covered in MSU Psychology news! Read here. ​
  • September
    • Dr. Yucel had a paper published in PLOS One describing the methodology of the second wave of data collection by the Developing Belief Network! Read more here.

    • Dr. Yucel gave a colloquium talk to the New Mexico State University's Psychology department!

    • Dr. Yucel gave a talk to the MSU's Industrial-Organizational Psychology area!
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    • One of our undergraduate research assistants, Avery Shippe, received Pathways to Research funding from MSU!
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  • August
    • Dr. Yucel won two manuscript awards from the Culture, Religion, and the Development of Cooperation group! Stay tuned!
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    • A new semester started at MSU and we held our first ever lab meeting!
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  • July 
    • Dr. Yucel had a paper on how emphasizing the salience of harm changes children's and adults' evaluations of unfairness accepted for publication in Social Cognition​!

    • Dr. Yucel had a paper on children's and adults' judgments of pro- and anti-environmental actions accepted for publication in the Journal of Cognition & Development! Read more here.

  • May 
    • Dr. Yucel had a commentary paper on the developmental roots of norm enforcement in peer culture accepted for publication in Behavioral and Brain Sciences​!

    • Moral Minds Lab was at the Society for Research in Child Development (SRCD) Conference! Dr. Yucel presented two talks and three panels.​

  • March 
    • Dr. Yucel had a paper published on 4- to 8-year-old children's judgments of morally ambiguous characters at Journal of Experimental Child Psychology!  Read more here.​
  • February 
    • Dr. Yucel had a paper published on whether people would prefer to be the topic of gossip at Self and Identity! Read more here.
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    • Dr. Yucel gave an invited talk at the Evolutionary Psychology preconference of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology (SPSP) conference!​​​​​

  • January - Dr. Yucel gave a talk at the National Institute of Health (NIH) and National Institute of Child Health and Development (NICHD) Professional Development Workshop!​​​​
2024
  • December
    • The lab is born!
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    • Dr. Yucel gave a talk at Istanbul Medipol University in Turkey!
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    • ​Dr. Yucel's symposium on "Psychology of religious development: A cross-cultural analysis" was accepted to the 2025 Society for Research in Child Development (SRCD) Biennial Conference!​

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