Background

Sam grew up in the suburbs of Philadelphia before attending Penn in 2017. After graduating in 2021, he continued conducting research on topics in moral psychology until he joined the Booth Marketing group as a PhD student in 2022

Research Interests

Sam is broadly interested in various topics within moral psychology and marketing. Currently, he is most interested in studying the causes of anti- and prosocial behavior, as well as refining our understanding of the effects of interventions on brand perceptions.

Selected Publications

Royzman, E. B., & Borislow, S. H. (2022). The puzzle of wrongless harms: Some potential concerns for dyadic morality and related accounts. Cognition, 220, 104980. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cognition.2021.104980