Maranges Lab Foundation

Our Mission

To elucidate how individuals’ character, social connections, and contexts shape their morality.
We do the rigorous basic research, data analyses, and dissemination necessary to inform interventions that are likely to work. That is, to increase our citizens’ moral character (virtues such as honesty, humility, and generosity), decisions and behaviors, we have to first establish what really promotes prosociality versus antisociality.

Why This Research Matters and How It’s Done

We do the rigorous basic research, data analyses, and dissemination necessary to inform interventions that are likely to work. That is, to increase our citizens' moral character (virtues such as honesty, humility, and generosity), decisions and behaviors, we have to first establish what really promotes prosociality versus antisociality.
Our job is to systematically apply the scientific method to answer questions with empirical data, to train future scientists and educators, and to teach.

Why We Need Support

Research is costly, and we rely on grants to cover salaries and research costs.
Grant funding has historically been limited, and now is more limited than ever.
In addition to salary, to do this crucial research and training students, costs include, but are not limited to:
Advertisements to recruit participants | Participant payments | Up-to-date computers and equipment |
Data collection and analysis software | Graduate student stipends | Travel to conferences and meetings around the world to share findings of the research and meet with practitioners

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