Principal Investigator
Arber Tasimi
Arber is interested in the origins and development of morality. He joined the faculty at Emory in 2020 after completing a postdoctoral fellowship at Stanford. Before that, he earned his PhD in Psychology at Yale and his BA in Psychology at UPenn. When Arber was a child, he spent a lot of time playing school with his sister. He still can't believe that he gets to work with, and learn from, all of the incredible people below!
Lab Manager
Skylar Epstein
Skylar graduated from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 2024 with a BS in Developmental Psychology. She is interested in morality as it applies to the development of social communication in infants and young children. In her free time she enjoys exercising, drawing, and spending time at home with her cat.
Graduate Students
Anastasiia Grigoreva
Broadly speaking, Anastasiia is interested in the how’s, why’s, and when’s of people’s tendencies to locate various entities within or outside the scope of their moral concern. She received her BA in Cognitive Science from Franklin & Marshall College, her MA in Philosophy from Georgia State University, and her MA in Psychology from Emory University. When Anastasiia was a child, her parents would ask her “why” instead of telling her “no” whenever she tried to do something dumb. Typically, she would stop whatever she was doing in futile attempts to produce an answer. Anastasiia’s family blames this parenting technique for her subsequent decision to go to graduate school.
Lesenia Fish
Lesenia is interested in when moral concepts emerge and how they change throughout early childhood. She is currently investigating 1) how children think and feel about sustainable behaviors and the environment and 2) how children use gender to inform their expectations and evaluations of others. She earned her BS in Psychology and Neurobiology from the University of Wisconsin – Madison in 2018 and worked with Dr. Sara Cordes at Boston College before beginning her PhD at Emory in 2022. Beyond research, she enjoys cooking, baking, hiking, and bar trivia.
Undergraduate Students
Iris Berman
Cathy Cheng
Elliana Nath
Irene Cho
Larissa Lippe
Bruce Wang
Research specialists
Hannah Kreuziger
Hannah graduated from Emory University in 2023 with a BA in Psychology and German Studies. She focuses on study recruitment and testing for our infant studies at the lab. Outside of the lab, she enjoys hot yoga, niche perfumery, and weekly trips to farmers markets.
Lab Alumni
Kylee Novick
Kylee is currently Pursuing her EdM in Mental Health Counseling at Teacher’s College, Columbia University. She received her BA in Psychology from Emory University in 2022 and was our lab manager from 2022 to 2024.
Thomas Costello
Tom graduated his PhD in Clinical Psychology in Spring 2022 and is now a post-doctoral fellow at MIT, working with David Rand. He received his BA in Psychology and Philosophy at Binghamton University (SUNY), where he was mentored by Steven Jay Lynn.
Shauna Bowes
Shauna graduated her PhD in Clinical Psychology in Spring 2023 and is now a post-doctoral fellow at Vanderbilt, working with Lisa Fazio. She received her BS in Neuroscience and Behavioral Biology from Emory University, where she was mentored by Scott Lilienfeld.