The WyLab
Jordan Wylie | Principal Investigator
Jordan is an Assistant Professor at Cornell University in the Psychology Department. Previously, she was an NSF SBE postdoctoral fellow at Boston College in the Morality Lab.
Outside of her interests in moral psychology and the mind, she is also an avid tennis player. She was All-American in college, and she continues to play when she find open courts.
Tori LeVier | Lab Manager
Tori graduated from the University of California, Santa Barbara. There, she completed an honors thesis with Dr. Hongbo Yu on the moral standing of blame at a group level. She was also the lab manager for Dr. Michael Beyeler’s Bionic Vision Lab, and an active research assistant in Dr. Regina Lapate’s LEAP Neuroscience Lab. Since then, she has pursued full time research at Princeton University working with Dr. Molly Crockett. Broadly, Tori is interested in positive social emotions such as empathy, and related prosocial motivations such as altruism, particularly in how they shape moral thought and behavior.
Charlotte Austin | Graduate Student
Charlotte is a first year graduate student, broadly interested in morality, decision making and curiosity. She’s from the UK, completing her undergraduate degree in psychology at Cardiff University, Wales. She then spent 3 years at Oxford University, first completing a masters in neuroscience and then spending 2 years as a research assistant at the Oxford Precision Psychiatry Lab and the Neuroscience Ethics and Society Group. She maintains a side interest in mental health research and the philosophy of mental illness and loves reading philosophy.
Undergraduate Research assistants
Tianyi Xiong | Undergraduate Research Assistant
Tianyi is a senior undergraduate student majoring in Applied Psychology at Beijing Normal–Hong Kong Baptist University. She is interested in moral psychology and how moral processes influence cognition and behavior.
Luci “Little Red” Wylie | Lab Pup
Luci is a dedicated pup in the lab. Her responsibilities range from providing emotional support to demanding attention and/or snacks. She is currently pursuing a Ph Doggo in canine-human persuasion techniques.