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Joshua Greene

Professor of Psychology | Harvard University

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Publications

October 28, 2019

Sacrificial utilitarian judgments do reflect concern for the greater good: Clarification via process dissociation and the judgments of philosophers (PDF)→

October 28, 2019/ Lab Manager

P. Conway, J. Goldstein-Greenwood, D. Polacek, & J.D. Greene (2018). Cognition.

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journal-articles, 2017
October 28, 2019

An Architecture for Encoding Sentence Meaning in Left Mid-Superior Temporal Cortex (PDF)→

October 28, 2019/ Lab Manager

S.M. Frankland & J.D. Greene (2015). Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

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journal-articles, 2015
February 05, 2015

From Fear Recognition to Kidney Donation (PDF)→

February 05, 2015/ ScienceSites

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

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2014, journal-articles
December 07, 2014

Response to Anticipated Reward in the Nucleus Accumbens Predicts Behavior in an Independent Test of Honesty (PDF)→

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N. Abe and J.D. Greene (2014). Journal of Neuroscience. 34(32), 10564-10572.

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2014, journal-articles
December 07, 2014

Integrative Moral Judgment: Dissociating the Roles of the Amygdala and the Ventromedial Prefrontal Cortex (PDF)→

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A. Shenhav and J.D. Greene (2014). Journal of Neuroscience. 34(13), 4741-4749.

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2014, journal-articles
December 07, 2014

Beyond Point-and-Shoot Morality: Why Cognitive (Neuro)science Matters for Ethics (PDF)→

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J.D. Greene (2014). Ethics, 124(4), 695-726.
* See also: Notes on “The Normative Insignificance of Neuroscience” by Selim Berker

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2014, journal-articles
December 07, 2014

Free Will and Punishment: A Mechanistic View of Human Nature Reduces Retribution (PDF)→

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A.F. Shariff, J.D. Greene, J.C. Karremans, J. Luguri, C.J. Clark, J.W. Schooler, R.F. Baumeister, and K.D. Vohs (2014 ePub). Psychological Science.

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2014, journal-articles
December 07, 2014

Social Heuristics Shape Intuitive Cooperation (PDF)→

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* D.G. Rand, * A. Peysakhovich, G.T. Kraft-Todd, G.E. Newman, O. Wurzbacher, M.A. Nowak, and J.D. Greene (2014) Nature Communications. doi: 10.1038/ncomms4677

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journal-articles, 2014
December 07, 2014

Are "Counter-Intuitive" Deontological Judgments Really Counter-Intuitive? (PDF)→

December 07, 2014/ ScienceSites

An Empirical Reply to Kahane et al. (2012) 

J.M. Paxton, T. Bruni, and J.D. Greene (2013 ePub). Social, Cognitive, and Affective Neuroscience.

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journal-articles, 2013
December 07, 2014

Spontaneous Giving and Calculated Greed (PDF)→

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D.G. Rand, *J.D. Greene, and *M.A. Nowak (2012). Nature, 489, 427-430.

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journal-articles, 2012
December 07, 2014

You See, the Ends Don't Justify the Means: Visual Imagery and Moral Judgment (PDF)→

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E. Amit and J.D. Greene (2012). Psychological Science, 23(8), 861-868.

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2012, journal-articles
December 07, 2014

Finding Faults: How Moral Dilemmas Illuminate Cognitive Structure (PDF)→

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F.A. Cushman and J.D. Greene (2012). Social Neuroscience, 7(3-4), 269-279.

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journal-articles, 2012
December 07, 2014

The Duty to Support Nationalistic Policies (PDF)→

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J. Baron, I. Ritov, and J.D. Greene (2011 ePub, 2013). Journal of Behavioral Decision Making, 26(2) 128-138.

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2011, journal-articles
December 07, 2014

Judgment Before Principle: Engagement of the Frontoparietal Control Network in Condemning Harms of Omission (PDF)→

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F.A. Cushman, D. Murray, S. Gordon-McKeon, S. Wharton, and J.D. Greene (2011 ePub, 2012). Social, Cognitive, and Affective Neuroscience, 7(8) 888-895.

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2011, journal-articles
December 07, 2014

Divine Intuition: Cognitive Style Influences Belief in God (PDF)→

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* A.S. Shenhav, * D.G. Rand, and J.D. Greene (2011 ePub, 2012). Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 141(3) 423-8.

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2011, journal-articles
December 07, 2014

Reflection and Reasoning in Moral Judgment (PDF)→

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J.M. Paxton, L. Ungar, and J.D. Greene (2011 ePub, 2012). Cognitive Science, 36(1) 163-177.

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2011, journal-articles
December 07, 2014

Sorting Guilty Minds→

December 07, 2014/ ScienceSites

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

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2011, journal-articles
December 07, 2014

Emotion and Morality: A Tasting Menu (PDF)→

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J.D. Greene (2011). Emotion Review, 3(3) 1-3.
* Editor’s introduction to special issue

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2011, journal-articles
December 07, 2014

Moral Judgments Recruit Domain-General Valuation Mechanisms to Integrate Representations of Probability and Magnitude (PDF)→

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A.S. Shenhav and J.D. Greene (2010). Neuron, 67, 667-677.

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2010, journal-articles
December 07, 2014

In Favor of Clear Thinking: Incorporating Moral Rules Into Wise Cost-Benefit Analysis (PDF)→

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M.H. Bazerman and J.D. Greene (2010). Perspectives on Psychological Science, 5(2), 209-212.

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2010, journal-articles
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Jan 25, 2023
Boosting the impact of charitable giving with donation bundling and micro-matching (PDF)
Jan 25, 2023

L. Caviola, & J. D. Greene (2023). Science Advances.

Jan 25, 2023
May 5, 2021
The psychology of (in)effective altruism (PDF)
May 5, 2021

L. Caviola, S. Schubert, & J.D. Greene (2021). Trends in Cognitive Sciences.

May 5, 2021
Apr 13, 2020
Two ways to build a thought: Distinct forms of compositional semantic representation across brain regions (PDF)
Apr 13, 2020

S.M. Frankland & J.D. Greene (2020). Cerebral Cortex.

Apr 13, 2020
Apr 13, 2020
Concepts and compositionality: In search of the brain’s language of thought (PDF)
Apr 13, 2020

S.M. Frankland & J.D. Greene (2020). Annual Review of Psychology.

Apr 13, 2020
Oct 28, 2019
Veil-of-ignorance reasoning favors the greater good (PDF)
Oct 28, 2019

K. Huang, J.D. Greene, & M. Bazerman (2019). Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

Oct 28, 2019
Oct 28, 2019
Sacrificial utilitarian judgments do reflect concern for the greater good: Clarification via process dissociation and the judgments of philosophers (PDF)
Oct 28, 2019

P. Conway, J. Goldstein-Greenwood, D. Polacek, & J.D. Greene (2018). Cognition.

Oct 28, 2019
 

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