Stephen Vaisey

Research Interests

I am primarily interested in the varieties, origins, and consequences of moral worldviews. Because morality necessarily involves evaluation, judgment, and decision-making, I have found it useful to integrate insights from sociology and cognitive science. My current work, for example, investigates how dual-process models of cognition can help us understand how cultural schemas or biases shape action and network formation over time.

In addition to these main interests, I have conducted research on religion, community, education, and gene-environment interaction, and I am also developing some new techniques for set-theoretic methods. Most generally, I am interested in why people do the things they do rather than something else.

Contact Me

Email:

vaisey [at] berkeley [dot] edu

Mailing Address:

410 Barrows Hall, Department of Sociology, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720