I’m Ivy, a PhD candidate in social psychology at Cornell University, working primarily in Dr. Laura Niemi’s Applied Moral Psychology Lab.
My research draws on social/moral psychology and cognitive linguistics to examine how people perceive and morally evaluate industrial organizations, products, and practices, and how these perceptions inform consumer beliefs and behavior.
My work spans topics such as:
moralization and moral belief updating
attributions of moral agency and/or moral standing to nonhuman actors, both biological and artificial
mind perception and perspective-taking
anthropomorphism
attitudes and behavior surrounding ethical consumption