Meltem Yucel

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Room for Research Assistants

Come join the Moral Minds Lab as a grad student at MSU! Brand-new lab equipped for child & adult testing, with motivated undergrads in a happy department. 🤩

Learn more: www.moralmindslab.com/join-our-tea...

(P.S. @tedmond.bsky.social is also taking a student!) @msupsychology.bsky.social

Really enjoyed chatting with @michaelhobbes.bsky.social for this episode! In addition to being a delight to talk to, Michael was _extremely_ committed to getting the facts right & engaged very earnestly with our feedback. A scientist's dream.

Several recent studies have found that politicians aren't very good at estimating public support for policies. But we have little idea about whether politicians are good at knowing which issues are more important to voters. Our new publication has a first go at answering this question rdcu.be/eQGm4

Chart shows the religious distribution of US adults.

More US adults identify with no religion (29%) than with the Catholic Church (19%) or evangelical Protestant denominations (23%).
www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/...

comic strip with call and response text. who are we? CEOs what do we want? AI! AI to do what? We don't know! When do we want it? Right now!

every company in 2025

Stinking, Spongy, Dark, Huge: A Spider Web Unlike Any Seen Before

We are out here fighting over whether we should keep burning the atmosphere or if people should have enough food to eat, and meanwhile the spiders are learning to cooperate. You do not want the spiders to cooperate.

www.nytimes.com/2025/11/08/s...

Missed yesterday's #MPRG2025 talks? No worries. You can watch the recording: www.youtube.com/watch?v=nei1...

Though you should probably hold of on watching us and hop on the Zoom call for Day 2 instead! sites.google.com/view/mprg/on...

Wow, that was a blast! Thank you for the opportunity to present our work.

#MPRG2025

Join us for two fun days of moral psychology and philosophy!

#MPRG2025

Two great scholars doing work on moral (@drmeltemyucel.bsky.social) & personality (@tedmond.bsky.social) development & change are recruiting PhD students this year @msupsychology.bsky.social!

Your grad office could be across the hall from my office!*

*not necessarily a selling point, just a fact

Come work with us @msupsychology.bsky.social!

I promise, we don’t match *all* the time @tedmond.bsky.social

Thank you for hosting me in your lab @drmeltemyucel.bsky.social! It was a lot of fun meeting your students. And huge thanks to you all for your patience in listening to me excitedly ramble about my work at 10pm after a long work day...a testament to your own ER abilities, I'm sure 😅

We hosted our first external speaker at our lab meeting! Many thanks to @kaitlynmwerner.bsky.social for telling us about her cool work on emotion regulation!

Anyone have recommendations for books and/or papers on the methods behind translating questionnaires to other languages?

Beyond the Adult Mind: A Developmental Framework for Predictive Processing in Infancy In this paper, we argue that Predictive Processing cannot be a unifying account of cognition until it can explain infant development. We show why development is crucial for understanding human cognit...

YES! "to explain all human cognition, we inherently must include development".
Beyond the Adult Mind: A Developmental Framework for Predictive Processing in Infancy - Ward - Topics in Cognitive Science - Wiley Online Library onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

Suggestions for resources on secondary data analysis? We're trying to support teams who want to make better use of big gov datasets. They need to explore but we also need to be careful of p-hacking. And then report appropriately to gov stakeholders. Suggestions for resources are appreciated!

So sad to hear we lost Judy DeLoache this week. Judy’s brilliance, her warmth, her humor, were grad school highlights. Whether it was at a dept party, on a sailboat, or in her home high in the Blue Ridge mountains, Judy made me feel like I mattered.

“Eyes open, minds open.” - JD

Sail on, Judy 💔

Judy DeLoache passed away yesterday. She was a brilliant scientist and giant in the field of developmental psychology. She will be missed dearly.

SARS-CoV-2 mRNA vaccines sensitize tumours to immune checkpoint blockade - Nature mRNA vaccines targeting SARS-CoV-2 also sensitize tumours to immune checkpoint inhibitors.

Finally read the paper and it's worth the buzz.
mRNA vaccines saved 20 million lives in a global pandemic and the technology is opening up new avenues for the treatment of deadly cancers. This is really one of the most impactful scientific developments of our time.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

I will forever cherish the many wonderful moments I got to spend with her <3

Rest in Peace, Judy.

Heartbroken to share that Judy DeLoache passed away yesterday. She was a brilliant scientist and a fantastic role model.

I met her 10+ years ago as a grad student @uvapsychology.bsky.social. She believed in me at my lowest and inspired me to persevere through the challenges of grad school + life.

Last day to submit to the #SPSP2025 Religion & Spirituality pre-conference!

A national randomized controlled trial of the impact of public Montessori preschool at the end of kindergarten | PNAS Although seminal studies from the early 1960s suggested quality preschool can have lasting positive effects, agreement is lacking on the efficacy o...

Another instant classic by @AngelLillard!!!! Check out her new results on Montessori education as cheaper and with better results than traditional preK and K classes. Hmm -- there really is something to this #playfullearning model. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

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A dark green graphic introducing Dr. Meltem Yucel's research interests, her Moral Minds Lab, and why she wanted to work at Michigan State.

Three photos of the Moral Minds Lab space. This lab explores morality across different stages of life and in cultures around the world. In the bottom right corner is moralmindslab.com

Meet Dr. Meltem Yucel, our new moral psychologist!

Dr. Yucel has a passion for understanding why people behave the way they do. Her research focuses on how children and adults understand rules, group identity, & moral development.

psychology.msu.edu/news-events/...

@drmeltemyucel.bsky.social

A recent paper by Jessica A. Stern et al. in JCD:
"Environmental Moral Cognition in Children and Adults: Journal of Cognition and Development"

www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

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"But when the team looked at the employees’ actual work output, they found that the developers had completed tasks 20% slower when using AI than when working without it. Researchers were stunned. “No one expected that outcome. We didn’t even really consider a slowdown as a possibility.”

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WOAH

Two day virtual conference on moral psychology hosted by the Moral Psychology Research Group: November 7 & 8 | Look like an excellent line-up! sites.google.com/view/mprg/on...

“If you wanna get ahead, don’t worry about tenure” James Pennebaker #SESP2025