Publications

Preprints

Woodley L., DeFillipis, E., Ravi, S., Greene, J.D. (under revision). Defusing political animosity in the United States with a cooperative online quiz game.

Woodley, L & Greene, J.D., (submitted). Restoring electoral confidence: Different cues for strong and weak partisans.

Plunkett, D., Frankland, S.M., Greene, J.D. (under revision) Neural representation of compositional ideas with spatial structure.

Published or in press

Voelkel, J.G., … DeFilippis, E.,… Greene, J.D…. et al. (in press). Megastudy testing 25 treatments to reduce anti-democratic attitudes and partisan animosity. Science, 386, 290.

Orwig, W., Edenbaum, E. R., Greene, J. D., & Schacter, D. L. (2024). The language of creativity: Evidence from humans and large language models. The Journal of creative behavior, 58(1), 128-136.

Caviola, L., & Greene, J.D. (2024) Moral psychology and utilitarianism, in R.Y. Chappell, D. Meissner, and W. MacAskill (eds.), An Introduction to Utilitarianism.

Bernhard, R.M., Frankland, S.M., Plunkett, D., Sievers, B. and Greene, J.D., 2023. Evidence for Spinozan “Unbelieving” in the Right Inferior Prefrontal Cortex. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 35(4), pp.659-680.

Greene, J.D. (2023). Dual-process moral judgment beyond fast and slow. Behavioral & Brain Sciences, 46.

Greene, J.D. (2023). Trolleyology: What it is, why it matters, what it’s taught us, and how it’s been misunderstood. The trolley problem, pp.158-181.

Greene, J.D. (2023). The dual-process theory of moral judgment does not deny that people can make compromise judgments. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. (letter)

Caviola, L., & Greene, J.D. (2023). Boosting the impact of charitable giving with donation bundling and micro-matching. Science Advances.

Greene, J.D., Huang, K., & Bazerman, M. (2022). Redirecting Rawlsian reasoning toward the greater good. In The Oxford Handbook of Moral Psychology, M. Vargas & J. Doris, eds., Oxford University Press.

Mahr, J. B., Greene, J. D., & Schacter, D. L. (2021). A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away: How temporal are episodic contents?. Consciousness and Cognition.

Caviola, L., Schubert, S., & Greene, J.D. (2021). The psychology of (in)effective altruism. Trends in Cognitive Sciences.

Huang, K., Bernhard, R., Barak-Corren, N., Bazerman, M., & Greene, J.D. (2021). Veil-of-ignorance reasoning mitigates self-serving bias in resource allocation during the COVID-19 crisis. Judgment and Decision Making.

Caviola, L., & Greene, J.D. (2020). How to be an effective altruist when giving to charities. LA Times.

Lindauer, M., Mayorga, M., Greene, J.D., Slovic, P., Västfjäll, D., & Singer, P. (2020). Comparing the effect of rational and emotional appeals on donation behavior. Judgment and Decision Making.

Greene, J.D. & Young, L. (2020). The Cognitive Neuroscience of Moral Judgment and Decision-Making. The Cognitive Neurosciences, Volume 6 (Ed. M.S. Gazzaniga). MIT Press.

Frankland, S.M. & Greene, J.D. (2020). Two ways to build a thought: Distinct forms of compositional semantic representation across brain regions. Cerebral Cortex.

Frankland, S.M. & Greene, J.D. (2020) Concepts and compositionality: In search of the brain’s language of thought. Annual Review of Psychology. Volume 71.

Frankand, S.M. & Greene J.D. (2019). A representational asymmetry for composition in the human left-middle temporal gyrus. 33rd Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems.

Huang, K., Greene, J. D., & Bazerman, M. (2019). Veil-of-ignorance reasoning favors the greater good. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

Cases, I., Rosenbaum, C., Riemer, M., Geiger, A., Klinger, T., Tamkin, A., Li, O., Agarwal, S., Greene, J.D., Jurafsky, D., Potts, C., Karttunen, L., (2019) Recursive routing networks: Learning to compose modules for language understanding. Proceedings of North American Association for Computational Linguistics-HTL, 3631-3648

Rosenbaum, C., Cases, I., Riemer, M., Geiger, A., Karttunen, L., Greene, J. D., ... & Potts, C. (2019). Dispatched Routing Networks. Stanford AI Lab, NLP Group Tech Report 2019-1.

Plunkett, D., Greene, J.D. (2019) Overlooked evidence and a misunderstanding of what trolley dilemmas do best: Commentary on Bostyn, Sevenhant, & Roets (2018). Psychological Science.

Abe, N., Greene, J.D., Kiehl, K.A., (2018) Reduced engagement of the anterior cingulate cortex in the dishonest decision-making of incarcerated psychopaths. Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience

Conway, P., Goldstein-Greenwood, J., Polacek, D., Greene, J.D. (2018) Sacrificial utilitarian judgments do reflect concern for the greater good: Clarification via process dissociation and the judgments of philosophers. Cognition, Volume 179, 241-265

Shenhav, A., Rand, D. G., & Greene, J. D. (2017). The relationship between intertemporal choice and following the path of least resistance across choices, preferences, and beliefs. Judgment and Decision making, 12(1), 1.

Greene, J.D. (2017) The Rat-a-gorical Imperative: Moral Intuition and the Limits of Affective Learning. Cognition.

Greene, J.D. (2016). Our Driverless Dilemma: When Should Your Car be Willing to Kill You? Science.

R.M. Bernhard, J. Chaponis, R. Siburian, P. Gallagher, K. Ransohoff, D. Wikler, *R.H. Perlis, & *J.D. Greene (2016). Variation in the Oxytocin Receptor Gene (OXTR) is Associated with Differences in Moral Judgment. Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience.

Greene, J., Rossi, F., Tasioulas, J., Venable, K. B., & Williams, B. (2016) Embedding Ethical Principles in Collective Decision Support Systems. Proceedings of the Thirtieth AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence.

Greene, J.D. (2016). Solving the Trolley Problem. A Companion to Experimental Psychology. John Wiley & Sons.

Frankland, S.M. & Greene, J.D. (2015) An Architecture for Encoding Sentence Meaning in Left Mid-Superior Temporal Cortex. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

Greene, J.D. (2015) The Rise of Moral Cognition. Cognition. 135, 39-42.

Greene, J.D. (2014) The Cognitive Neuroscience of Moral Judgment and Decision-Making. (The Cognitive Neurosciences V (ed. M.S. Gazzaniga). MIT Press, Cambridge, MA.

Greene, J.D. (2014) From Fear Recognition to Kidney Donation. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 111(42), 14966-14967. (Commentary on Marsh et al., 2014)

Abe, N. and Greene, J.D. (2014). Response to Anticipated Reward in the Nucleus Accumbens Predicts Behavior in an Independent Test of Honesty. Journal of Neuroscience. 34(32), 10564-10572.

Shenhav, A. and Greene, J.D. (2014). Integrative Moral Judgment: Dissociating the Roles of the Amygdala and the Ventromedial Prefrontal Cortex. Journal of Neuroscience. 34(13), 4741-4749.

Greene, J.D. (2014). Beyond Point-and-Shoot Morality: Why Cognitive (Neuro)science Matters for Ethics. Ethics, 124(4), 695-726. * See also: Notes on “The Normative Insignificance of Neuroscience” by Selim Berker.

Shariff, A.F., Greene, J.D., Karremans, J.C., Luguri, J.B., Clark, C.J., Schooler, J.W., Baumeister, R.F. and Vohs, K.D., (2014) . Free Will and Punishment: A Mechanistic View of Human Nature Reduces Retribution. (2014 ePub). Psychological Science.

Rand, D. G., Peysakhovich, A., Kraft-Todd, G. T., Newman, G. E., Wurzbacher, O., Nowak, M. A., & Greene, J. D. (2014). Social Heuristics Shape Intuitive Cooperation. Nature Communications. doi: 10.1038/ncomms4677

Paxton, J. M., Bruni, T., & Greene, J. D. (2013). Are "Counter-Intuitive" Deontological Judgments Really Counter-Intuitive? : An Empirical Reply to Kahane et al. (2012) Social, Cognitive, and Affective Neuroscience. 9(9), 1368-1371.

Rand, D. G., Greene, J. D., & Nowak, M. A. (2012). Spontaneous Giving and Calculated Greed Nature, 489, 427-430.

Amit, E., & Greene, J. D. (2012). You See, the Ends Don't Justify the Means: Visual Imagery and Moral Judgment. Psychological Science, 23(8), 861-868.

Cushman, F., & Greene, J. D. (2012). Finding Faults: How Moral Dilemmas Illuminate Cognitive Structure. Social Neuroscience, 7(3-4), 269-279.

Cushman, F. A., & Greene, J. D. (2012). The Philosopher in the Theater The Social Psychology of Morality: Exploring the Causes of Good and Evil (eds. M. Mikulincer and P.R. Shaver). APA Press.

Baron, J., Ritov, I., & Greene, J. D. (2013). The Duty to Support Nationalistic Policies Journal of Behavioral Decision Making, 26(2) 128-138.

Cushman, F., Murray, D., Gordon-McKeon, S., Wharton, S., & Greene, J. D. (2011 ePub, 2012). Judgment Before Principle: Engagement of the Frontoparietal Control Network in Condemning Harms of Omission. Social, Cognitive, and Affective Neuroscience, 7(8) 888-895.

Shenhav, A., Rand, D. G., & Greene, J. D. (2011 ePub, 2012). Divine Intuition: Cognitive Style Influences Belief in God. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 141(3) 423-8.

Paxton, J. M., Ungar, L., & Greene, J. D. (2011 ePub, 2012). Reflection and Reasoning in Moral Judgment Cognitive Science, 36(1) 163-177.

Shen, F. X., Hoffman, M. B., Jones, O. D., Greene, J. D., & Marois, R. (2011) Sorting Guilty Minds. New York University Law Review, Vol. 80.

Greene, J.D. (2011) Emotion and Morality: A Tasting Menu Emotion Review, 3(3) 1-3. * Editor’s introduction to special issue

Greene, J.D. (2011) Social Neuroscience and the Soul's Last Stand. Social Neuroscience: Toward Understanding the Underpinnings of the Social Mind (eds. A. Todorov, S. Fiske, and D. Prentice). Oxford University Press, New York.

Shenhav, A. S. & Greene, J. D. (2010) Moral Judgments Recruit Domain-General Valuation Mechanisms to Integrate Representations of Probability and Magnitude Neuron, 67, 667-677.

Bazerman, M. H., & D. Greene, J. (2010). In Favor of Clear Thinking: Incorporating Moral Rules Into Wise Cost-Benefit Analysis Perspectives on Psychological Science, 5(2), 209-212.

Paxton, J. M., & Greene, J. D. (2010). Moral Reasoning: Hints and Allegations. Topics in Cognitive Science, 2(3), 511-527.

Cushman, F., Young, L., & Greene, J. D. (2010). Our Multi-System Moral Psychology: Towards a Consensus View The Oxford Handbook of Moral Psychology (eds. J. Doris, G. Harman, S. Nichols, J. Prinz, W. Sinnott-Armstrong, and S. Stich). Oxford University Press.

Greene, J. D., & Paxton, J. M. (2009). Patterns of Neural Activity Associated With Honest and Dishonest Moral Decisions. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA, Vol. 106, No. 30, 12506-12511.

Paharia, N., Kassam, K. S., Greene, J. D., & Bazerman, M. H. (2009). Dirty Work, Clean Hands: The Moral Psychology of Indirect Agency. Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, 109, 134-141.

Greene, J. D., Cushman, F. A., Stewart, L. E., Lowenberg, K., Nystrom, L. E., & Cohen, J. D. (2009). Pushing Moral Buttons: The Interaction Between Personal Force and Intention in Moral Judgment Cognition, Vol. 111 (3), 364-371. *supplementary materials (PDF)

Greene, J.D. (2009) Dual-Process Morality and the Personal/Impersonal Distinction: A Reply to McGuire, Langdon, Coltheart, and Mackenzie. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, Vol. 45 (3), 581-584.

Greene, J.D. (2009) The Cognitive Neuroscience of Moral Judgment. The Cognitive Neurosciences IV (ed. M.S. Gazzaniga). MIT Press, Cambridge, MA.

Greene, J.D. (2009) Fruit Flies of the Moral Mind. What's Next: Dispatches from the Future of Science (ed. M. Brockman). Vintage, New York.

Greene, J. D., Morelli, S. A., Lowenberg, K., Nystrom, L. E., & Cohen, J. D. (2008). Cognitive Load Selectively Interferes With Utilitarian Moral Judgment Cognition, Vol. 107, 1144-1154.
* supplementary materials (PDF)

Greene, J.D. (2007) Why Are VMPFC Patients More Utilitarian?: A Dual-Process Theory of Moral Judgment Explains. Trends in Cognitive Sciences. Vol 11, No. 8, 322-323.

Greene, J.D. (2007) The Secret Joke of Kant's Soul. Moral Psychology, Vol. 3: The Neuroscience of Morality: Emotion, Disease, and Development(ed. W. Sinnott-Armstrong). MIT Press, Cambridge, MA.

McClure, S.M., Botvinick, M.M., Yeung, N., Greene, J.D., and Cohen, J.D. (2007). Conflict Monitoring in Conflict-Emotion Competition. Handbook of Emotion Regulation (ed. J.J. Gross). Guilford Press, New York.

Greene, J. (2005). Emotion and Cognition in Moral Judgment: Evidence From Neuroimaging. Neurobiology of Human Values (eds. J.P. Changeux, A.R. Damasio, W. Singer, and Y. Christen). Springer-Verlag, Berlin.

Greene, J. (2005) Cognitive Neuroscience and the Structure of the Moral Mind.The Innate Mind: Structure and Contents (eds. S. Laurence, P. Carruthers, and S. Stich). Oxford University Press, New York.

Greene, J., & Cohen, J. (2004). For the Law, Neuroscience Changes Nothing and Everything Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London B, (Special Issue on Law and the Brain), 359, 1775-17785.

Greene, J. D., Nystrom, L. E., Engell, A. D., Darley, J. M., & Cohen, J. D. (2004). The Neural Bases of Cognitive Conflict and Control in Moral Judgment. Neuron, Vol. 44, 389-400.

Greene, J.D. (2003) From Neural "Is" to Moral "Ought": What Are the Moral Implications of Neuroscientific Moral Psychology? Nature Reviews Neuroscience, Vol. 4, 847-850.

Greene, J and Haidt, J. (2002). How (and Where) Does Moral Judgment Work? Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 6(12), 517-523.

Greene, J. D., Sommerville, R. B., Nystrom, L. E., Darley, J. M., & Cohen, J. D. (2001). An fMRI Investigation of Emotional Engagement in Moral Judgment. Science, Vol. 293, 2105-2108.

Baron, J. and Greene, J.D. (2001). Intuitions About Declining Marginal Utility. Journal of Behavioral Decision Making, 14, 243-255.

Baron, J. and Greene, J.D. (1996). Determinants of Insensitivity to Quantity in Valuation of Public Goods. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Applied, 2, 107-125.

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