Ph.D., Harvard University, 2008

Office: McGuinn 347
Lab: McGuinn 326
Phone: (617) 552-1541
Email: liane.young@bc.edu
Website: http://www2.bc.edu/liane-young/

Morality Lab
http://moralitylab.bc.edu/

Scholarly Interests: Moral Psychology and Neuroscience. The role of theory of mind in moral judgment. Moral emotions. Cultural and individual differences in moral cognition. Moral judgment versus moral behavior. Motivated moral reasoning. Conceptions of the self and free will. The research employs methods of social psychology and cognitive neuroscience: functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), studying patient populations with selective cognitive deficits, and modulating activity in specific brain regions using transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS).