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Bertram F. Malle

Bertram F. Malle

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Psychology

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59
Citations
21247
World Ranking
3639
National Ranking
2042

Overview

Bertram F. Malle is affiliated with Brown University in the United States. Their research spans multiple fields within social sciences, psychology, and neuroscience. The main areas of study include social psychology, cognitive neuroscience, and safety research, with additional work in artificial intelligence and sociology and political science.

Their research topics focus on the psychology of moral and emotional judgment, ethics and social impacts of AI, social robot interaction and human-robot interaction (HRI), ethics in business and education, emotions and moral behavior, neuroethics and biomedical innovations, as well as reinforcement learning in robotics.

Bertram F. Malle has authored several research papers, including:

  • "Moral Judgments," 2020, Annual Review of Psychology
  • "Cognitive Blame Is Socially Shaped," 2022, Current Directions in Psychological Science
  • "People's judgments of humans and robots in a classic moral dilemma," 2024, Cognition

Frequent co-authors in their work include Vivienne Bihe, Daniel Ullman, Matthias Scheutz, Elizabeth Phillips, and Xuan Zhao.

Bertram F. Malle's research has been published in a variety of venues, with multiple publications in arXiv (Cornell University), Cognition, the ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI), Innovation in Aging, and the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology.

Best Publications

  • Social dominance orientation: A personality variable predicting social and political attitudes.

    Felicia Pratto;James Sidanius;Lisa M. Stallworth;Bertram F. Malle

  • The Folk Concept of Intentionality

    Bertram F. Malle;Joshua Knobe

  • How People Explain Behavior: A New Theoretical Framework

    Bertram F. Malle

  • A Theory of Blame

    Bertram F. Malle;Steve Guglielmo;Andrew E. Monroe

  • The actor-observer asymmetry in attribution: A (surprising) meta-analysis.

    Bertram F. Malle

  • How the Mind Explains Behavior: Folk Explanations, Meaning, and Social Interaction

    Bertram F. Malle

  • Intentions and Intentionality: Foundations of Social Cognition

    Bertram F. Malle;Louis J. Moses;Dare A. Baldwin

  • Distinguishing Hope from Optimism and Related Affective States

    Patricia Bruininks;Bertram F. Malle

  • From Uncaused Will to Conscious Choice: The Need to Study, Not Speculate About People’s Folk Concept of Free Will

    Andrew E. Monroe;Bertram F. Malle

  • Actor-observer asymmetries in explanations of behavior: new answers to an old question.

    Bertram F. Malle;Joshua M. Knobe;Sarah E. Nelson

  • Attribution theories: How people make sense of behavior.

    Bertram F. Malle

  • Sacrifice One For the Good of Many?: People Apply Different Moral Norms to Human and Robot Agents

    Bertram F. Malle;Matthias Scheutz;Thomas Arnold;John Voiklis

  • Can Unintended Side Effects Be Intentional? Resolving a Controversy Over Intentionality and Morality

    Steve Guglielmo;Bertram F. Malle

  • Other minds: How humans bridge the divide between self and others.

    Bertram F. Malle;Sara D. Hodges

  • What is Human-like?: Decomposing Robots' Human-like Appearance Using the Anthropomorphic roBOT (ABOT) Database

    Elizabeth Phillips;Xuan Zhao;Daniel Ullman;Bertram F. Malle

  • Judging mens rea: the tension between folk concepts and legal concepts of intentionality.

    Bertram F. Malle;Sarah E. Nelson

  • The relation between language and theory of mind in development and evolution

    Bertram F. Malle

  • Which behaviors do people explain? A basic actor–observer asymmetry.

    Bertram F. Malle;Joshua Knobe

  • Conceptual structure and social functions of behavior explanations: beyond person--situation attributions.

    Bertram F. Malle;Joshua Knobe;Matthew J. O'Laughlin;Gale E. Pearce

  • At the Heart of Morality Lies Folk Psychology

    Steve Guglielmo;Andrew E. Monroe;Bertram F. Malle

  • The evolution of language out of pre-language

    Talmy Givón;Bertram F. Malle

  • People systematically update moral judgments of blame.

    Andrew E. Monroe;Bertram F. Malle

Frequent Co-Authors

Joshua Knobe
Joshua Knobe Yale University
David M. Sobel
David M. Sobel Brown University
Sarah E. Nelson
Sarah E. Nelson Harvard University
Leonard M. Horowitz
Leonard M. Horowitz Stanford University
Dare A. Baldwin
Dare A. Baldwin University of Oregon
Aljoscha C. Neubauer
Aljoscha C. Neubauer University of Graz
Louis J. Moses
Louis J. Moses University of Oregon
Anne P. DePrince
Anne P. DePrince University of Denver
Craig R. Fox
Craig R. Fox University of California, Los Angeles
Stefan Schmidt
Stefan Schmidt University of Freiburg

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