 Her work on moral and political development and the civic engagement of young people has explored the factors that promote or inhibit participation in both conventional and unconventional forms of action.Haste is interested especially in how cultural narratives and metaphors are reflected in the development of young people's beliefs.Her work on science, society, and gender has explored the cultural images of science, how they reflect dominant models of rationality, how these are associated with conceptions of gender, and how they influence motivation to take up science interests.