Cognitive Science - Is There a Link Between Self Report and Behavior?

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A lot of the research that has been done thus far on psychedelics in meditation and, you know, attending mass gatherings is relying on self report. And one new line of work where we're doing this is actually about the ability to introspect. So I think it's a really exciting time in cognitive science, because there are lots of new avenues for verifying the link between self report and and behavior.

Most of us strive to be good, moral people. When we are doing that striving, what is happening in our brains? Some of our moral inclinations seem pretty automatic and subconscious. Other times we have to sit down and deploy our full cognitive faculties to reason through a tricky moral dilemma. I talk with psychologist Molly Crockett about where our moral intuitions come from, how they can sometimes serve as cover for bad behaviors, and how morality shapes our self-image.

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Molly J. Crockett received her Ph.D. in Experimental Psychology from the University of Cambridge. She is currently Associate Professor of Psychology and University Center for Human Values at Princeton University. She is a Fellow of the Association for Psychological Science and the Society for Experimental Social Psychology.

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