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About me..
C. David Navarrete completed a Ph.D. in biological anthropology at UCLA in 2004 and worked as a postdoctoral fellow in psychology at Harvard in 2005-07. He joined the faculty at Michigan State in 2007 where he is currently an associate professor in psychology and directs the Morality & Intergroup Relations Lab.
His research touches on broad existential questions of social life, such as the human penchant for tribal conflict and the psychology of good and evil. In doing so, his work elucidates the workings of the psychological mechanisms that produce moral judgment, intergroup conflict and political biases. He is particularly interested in understanding the psychophysiological underpinnings, personality correlates and causal factors in the emergence of biases and inconsistencies in moral and political judgment.
Crucial to this enterprise is an investigation of the decision rules that tie within- and between-group processes together, and how such rules are represented in the human mind as gut-intuitions, judgment biases and moral outrage. Theory and method are adopted from emerging perspectives across the social and natural sciences, including evolutionary biology, game theory, and social neuroscience.