John Voiklis

John is a Principal Researcher at Knology, and serves as the organization’s chief methodologist. Trained as a social and cognitive psychologist, John offers expertise in the moral psychology of learning and decision-making, including the interconnected contributions of empathy, moral inclusion, moral motives, and trust. He is especially interested in how people create and enforce social norms during social interaction, and has studied these interactions between friends and strangers, real and imagined people, people and institutions, and people and machines (including robots and AI). In particular, John's research has shown that informal STEM learning (ISL) depends on trusting interactions between learners and ISL providers. He has worked with Knology's ISL partners to implement institutional behaviors that convey trustworthiness to their varied stakeholders.