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Kiley Hamlin is a Professor in the Department of Psychology at the University of British Columbia, where her research explores the earliest developmental origins of human moral sense. She examines precursors to moral cognition and action in preverbal infants. Hamlin's work is characterized by a commitment to understanding how social and moral evaluations influence children's developing cognition and social understanding. She was previously a Tier 2 Canada Research Chair in Developmental Psychology. She has published extensively in high-impact journals such as Social Cognition, Child Development, and Perspectives on Psychological Science. Hamlin is also involved in editorial boards for various psychology journals and has been a member of the Early Development Research Group, a consortium of research centers dedicated to the study of infant development. Her secondary research area includes Social and Personality Psychology, focusing on concepts such as prosocial and antisocial behaviors in early childhood as well as moral reasoning in young children and infants.
University of British Columbia • Vancouver, Canada
Teaching and conducting research in Developmental Psychology, focusing on infants' moral understanding and social evaluation.
Offers course-only and thesis routes. Focus areas include philosophy of science, mind, ethics, and Asian philosophy.