Rate My Professor Tom Kupfer

Kupfer's research explores the evolutionary function and design of psychological mechanisms involved in moral judgement, encompassing disgust, jealousy, pathogen avoidance, and mental-state inference, and how these influence moral norms, values, and social practices. He investigates why certain aspects of morality are consistent across cultures while others vary with social and ecological conditions. His influential publications include 'What makes moral disgust special? An integrative functional review' (2018, Advances in Experimental Social Psychology), 'Behavioral immune trade-offs: Interpersonal value relaxes social pathogen avoidance' (2020, Psychological Science), 'Benevolent sexism and mate preferences: Why do women prefer benevolent men despite recognizing that they can be undermining?' (2019, Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin), 'Disgust sensitivity and opposition to immigration: Does contact avoidance or resistance to foreign norms explain the relationship?' (2019, Journal of Experimental Social Psychology), and 'Communicating moral motives: The social signaling function of disgust' (2017, Social Psychological and Personality Science). With over 1,000 citations on Google Scholar, his work contributes substantially to moral psychology and evolutionary psychology.