Stephen Vaisey

What I Study

My main objective is to understand the varieties, origins, and consequences of different moral worldviews. Because moral judgment and action necessarily involve processes like perception, evaluation, and motivation, I have found it essential to integrate insights from cognitive science into my research. Right now, for example, I am writing a book that uses a dual-process model of culture and cognition that sheds some light on the ways different models of the "good life" influence the choices and shape the friendship networks of the Millennial Generation (or "Generation Y").

In the past few years, I have also conducted research on religion, community, education, and gene-environment interaction. I am also trying to figure out some new ways to integrate set-theoretic modeling into social science research. Most generally, I am just interested in why people do the things they do rather than something else.

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vaisey [at] berkeley [dot] edu

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