| The Social and Moral Development Laboratory is housed in the Department of Human Development, University of Maryland, College Park. The laboratory is supervised by Professor Melanie Killen (mkillen@umd.edu), and the focus of the research is on how children, adolescents, and young adults evaluate social and moral issues in everyday life. |
Post-doctoral fellows, graduate students, and undergraduate students collaborate on a range of projects. Students study developmental theory, research methodology, conduct data analysis, read the current research literature, and communicate the findings through presentations and publications.
The general topics that we investigate include developmental social cognition, moral reasoning, intergroup attitudes and relationships, explicit judgments and implicit biases, stereotyping, and the role of culture on social development.
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