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Marc D. Hauser

• 1981: Bsc, Bucknell University
• 1987: PhD, UCLA (Advisors: R. Seyfarth & D. Cheney)
• 1988: Post-doc, U. Michigan (Advisor: R. Wrangham)
• 1989-1992: Post-doc, Rockefeller U., UC-Davis (Advisor: P. Marler)
• 1992-1995: Assistant Professor, Department of Biological Anthropology, Harvard University
• 1994: NSF Presidential Young Investigator Award
• 1996-1998: Associate Professor, Department of Biological Anthropology, Harvard University
• 1998-present: Full Professor, Department of Psychology, Harvard University
• 2001: Harvard College Professor Chair for distinction in teaching and research
• Co-Director, Mind, Brain and Behavior Program, Harvard University
• 2000-present, Adjunct Professor, Graduate School of Education, Harvard University
• Editorial Boards: Cognition, Trends in Cognitive Science, Review of General Psychology, Animal Cognition
• 2 single authored books, 2 co-edited books, 25 book reviews, 125+ scholarly articles and book chapters
• Research interests: language and thought, conceptual representations, language evolution, animal communication, knowledge of tools, number, space, food, and animacy, moral intuitions
• Past and present PhDs: Brenda McGowan, Mike Wilson, Jerald Kralik, Claudia Uller, Daniel Weiss, Laurie Santos, Cory Miller, Ricardo gil da Costa, Brian Hare, Rebecca Coughlin, Josh McDermott, Somangshu Mukherji, Justin Wood
• Past and present Post-docs: Linda Anderson, Julia Fischer, Tecumseh Fitch, Jerald Kralik, Stephane Gouteux, Asif Ghazanfar, Joanna Bryson, Ruth Tincoff, Roian Egnor, Jeff Stevens, Alberto Palleroni

Fiery Cushman

• 2003: BA, Harvard College
• 2003 - 2004: Research Assistant, Primate Cognitive Neuroscience Laboratory, Harvard University
• 2004 - present: Graduate Student, Psychology, Harvard University
• Fiery Cushman's Homepage
• Research interests: the evolution of social cognition, especially regarding cooperation, punishment, and moral intuitions

Liane Lee Young

• 2000 - 2004: Harvard College, Philosophy
• 2004 - present: Graduate Student, Psychology, Harvard University
• 2003 - 2004: Undergraduate thesis research with Marc Hauser on moral intuitions at Harvard University
• 2000 - 2004: Neuroscience research with David Hubel and Kevin Duffy at Harvard Medical School
• 2002 - 2004: President of Harvard Society of Mind, Brain and Behavior (HSMBB)
• 2002 - 2004: Editor-in-Chief of The Harvard Brain, Harvard Undergraduate Journal of Mind, Brain and Behavior
• Liane Young's Homepage
• Research Interests: moral intuitions, action theory, David Hume, normative ethics, biomedical ethics, psychopathology, vision

Kang-Xing Jin

• 2002 - present: Harvard College, Computational Neuroscience
• Research interests: moral intuitions, linguistics, computational vision/image processing, ethics

John Mikhail

• 1991: BA, Amherst College
• 2000: PhD in Philosophy, Cornell University (Advisors: Noam Chomsky, Richard Miller, Jason Stanley, Allen Wood); Graduate Minor in Cognitive Studies
• PhD Dissertation: “Rawls’ Linguistic Analogy: A Study of the ‘Generative Grammar’ Model of Moral Theory Described by John Rawls in ‘A Theory of Justice’” (UMI # 9967447)
• 1997-2001: Research Affiliate, Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, M.I.T. (Advisor: Elizabeth Spelke)
• 2002: JD, Stanford Law School
• 2003-present: Law Clerk to Judge Rosemary Barkett, United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit
• 1995-1998: Teaching Fellow, Harvard University
• 1998-1999: Lecturer and Teaching Fellow, M.I.T.
• 2001: Visiting Junior Scholar, Peter Wall Institute for Advanced Studies
• 2002: Visiting Scholar, Stanford Law School
• Editorial Boards: Stanford Law Review; Stanford Journal of Int’l Law
• Select Publications: “Law, Science, and Morality,” 54 Stan. L. Rev. 1057 (2002); “Toward a Universal Moral Grammar” (with C. Sorrentino and E. Spelke), 19 Proc. Cog. Sci. Soc. 1250 (1998)
• Research Interests: moral and legal cognition, action theory, universal grammar, philosophy of language and mind, moral and political philosophy, criminal law theory, law and social norms, philosophical foundations of human rights

Ana Salceda

• 1994: BD, Journalism - Universidad Europea de Madrid (Spain)
• 1997: MD, International Relations and Comunication - Universidad Complutense de Madrid (Spain)
• Press and TV Editor. Filmmaker (documentaries).
• Collaborating on cross-culture aspects.of morality.