Lab News
2026
  • January
    • The Moral Minds Lab is excited to partner with the Impression 5 Science Center in Lansing, MI! Our team will be hosting fun, interactive science games at the science center to learn how children think about and engage with their social world. While children participate in these activities, families can watch real research in action and chat with scientists about the latest ideas in child development at our Mini Minds Corner. You’ll see us as part of an interactive exhibit. Catch us on Saturdays from 10:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. to watch real-life research unfold and, if you’d like, join in on the fun!​
2025
  • December
    • Dr. Yucel gave an invited talk to the University of Michigan's developmental psychology area!

    • Dr. Yucel gave an invited talk at her undergrad institution, Ozyegin University in Istanbul, Turkey!
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    • Dr. Yucel gave an invited talk at  MEF University's Tepe Morality Lab in Istanbul, Turkey.


  • 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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