Supplement to Consortium on Moral Decision-Making
Project Team
Darly Cameron, Associate Professor, Psychology
Andrew High, Associate Professor, Communication Arts and Sciences
Project Funding
SSRI Level 4 - Interdisciplinary Research Initiative
Project Description
The Consortium on Moral Decision-Making is an interdisciplinary network of researchers at Penn State that are dedicated to studying the social science of morality and ethical decisions. This Consortium currently has joint financial support from the Rock Ethics Institute, Social Science Research Institute, and the College of Liberal Arts, with additional support from the McCourtney Institute for Democracy and the Department of Philosophy, with a formal Consortium launch to occur during the 2023-2024 academic year. In the current proposal, we are seeking complementary support for this research initiative, given that the research aims of this Consortium – to create an explicitly interdisciplinary collective who can harness the complementary skills of several disciplines to address mutually interesting questions about morality – directly overlap with this request for proposals. We had a soft launch of the Consortium earlier in the spring and it was a success, and we hope to continue its momentum with this additional support. This Level 4 grant would bolster the possibilities for this Consortium to obtain sustained external support (a major long-term goal we have at the outset of the Consortium) as well as support for methodology and training opportunities for students. We would use the requested funds to further the momentum of the research team, to find and pursue relevant funding opportunities for external center and/or training grants (e.g., for student training in methodology in this topic area), and for guidance on proposal submissions. We also seek support for one month of summer support for each of three years for the two project leads to allow them more time to focus attention on the Consortium during these periods of time, as well as for an annual graduate research assistant (or human research technologist).