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Culture and Morality Lab

Milestone

The Culture and Morality Lab opens at UMass Amherst

CAML begins its work in the Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences, studying how culture shapes moral values and norms.

The Culture and Morality Lab has opened in the Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, led by Dr. Mohammad Atari.

The lab studies how culture shapes moral values and norms using a combination of computational techniques, laboratory experiments, and fieldwork, with research programs on cultural variation across time and place, pluralistic morality, and computational social science.