Author: Anna Brinkman

Impression Management as Relationship Maintenance Impression management, the process through which people attempt to control the impressions others form of them, is thought to typically occur in distant interactions and harm close relationships. In the current talk, I will present a theoretical perspective based on interdependence and communal relationships theories that challenges these views....
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Fairness norm enforcement in childhood Katherine McAuliffe is an assistant professor of psychology at Boston College where she directs the Cooperation Lab and co-directs the Boston College Virtue Project. Her past work has focused on how children across societies acquire and enforce norms of cooperation, with a particular focus on children’s emerging understanding of fairness. More recently she ...
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Fiery Cushman is an Associate Professor of Psychology at Harvard University, where he directs the Moral Psychology Research Lab. His award-winning research investigates how people learn and make decisions in social contexts, with a specific focus on moral judgments. Why, and how, did punishment evolve? What are the emotional systems that prevent us from doing harm to each other? How do humans make...
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