Moral Psychology Research Lab · UBC Vancouver

Centre for
Applied
Moral
Psychology

We study how people form beliefs about fairness, justice, and social systems — and how those beliefs shape responses to inequality, AI, and institutions.

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Research Areas

Moral Psychology of AI & Autonomous Vehicles 01
Religion, Prosociality & Belief 02
Economic Inequality & Poverty 03
Free Will Belief & Moral Judgment 04
Cultural Evolution of Morality 05
Privacy & Digital Ethics 06
Political Psychology 07
Moralization of Effort 08

Most Recent Publications

2025

The science fiction science method Nature

Rahwan, I., Shariff, A., & Bonnefon, J.-F. (2025).
2025

Taking faculty diversity seriously means asking why it matters Nat Rev Psych

Shariff, A. (2025).
2024

Megastudy testing 25 treatments to reduce antidemocratic attitudes Science

Voelkel, J. G., Stagnaro, M. N., … Shariff, A. (2024).
2024

Fears about artificial intelligence across 20 countries and six domains Am Psychologist

Dong, M., Conway, J. R., Bonnefon, J.-F., Shariff, A., & Rahwan, I. (2024).
2024

Religiosity predicts prosociality: A meta-analysis of nearly 60 years of research Psych Bulletin

Kelly, J. M., Kramer, S. R., & Shariff, A. F. (2024).