Role
Tom Kupfer is a a Senior Lecturer within the Department of Psychology.
Career overview
Before joining NTU, Tom Kupfer was a Marie Curie Research Fellow at Vrije Universiteit in Amsterdam. He was awarded an ERC Horizon 2020 grant to investigate whether expressing moral emotions (anger and disgust) enhances the reputation of people who punish immoral behaviour. He is Principle Investigator on a project examining the role of mental states in moral judgement, norms and laws, funded by large grant from the US Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR).
Research areas
His research draws on evolutionary theory to understand the function and design of psychological mechanisms involved in moral judgement, including disgust, jealousy, and mental-state inference, and how these shape moral norms, values, and social practices. He seeks to explain why some aspects of morality are widely shared across cultures, while others vary systematically with social and ecological conditions.
Publications
A full list of my publications can be found here.