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Fiery Cushman publication distribution in Psychology in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Psychology in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Fiery Cushman sits on this spectrum.

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31 publications 705+

This scientist: 153 publications — 51st percentile

51% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 705 publications or more.

Fiery Cushman D-index placement in Psychology in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Psychology scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Fiery Cushman sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 144+

This scientist: 58 D-Index — 67th percentile

67% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 144 D-Index or more.

Overview

Fiery Cushman is affiliated with Harvard University in the United States and has made contributions primarily in the fields of Social Sciences, Neuroscience, and Psychology. Their research spans approximately 34 publications in Social Sciences, 25 in Neuroscience, and 23 in Psychology. Within these broader fields, Cushman's work often addresses subfields such as Cognitive Neuroscience, Sociology and Political Science, Social Psychology, Safety Research, and Developmental and Educational Psychology.

Their scholarly work focuses on topics including the Psychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment, Evolutionary Game Theory and Cooperation, Experimental Behavioral Economics Studies, Child and Animal Learning Development, Social and Intergroup Psychology, Cultural Differences and Values, and Language and Cultural Evolution.

Frequent publication venues for Cushman include:

  • Cognition
  • Behavioral and Brain Sciences
  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Journal of Experimental Psychology General

Some of the recent papers authored by Cushman include:

  • Knowledge before belief, 2020, Behavioral and Brain Sciences
  • Reasoning supports utilitarian resolutions to moral dilemmas across diverse measures, 2020, Journal of Personality and Social Psychology
  • Planning with Theory of Mind, 2022, Trends in Cognitive Sciences
  • Punishment is Organized around Principles of Communicative Inference, 2020, Cognition
  • Reputational and cooperative benefits of third-party compensation, 2021, Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes

Cushman has collaborated frequently with several coauthors, including Natalia Vélez, Jonathan Phillips, Samuel J. Gershman, Joshua Knobe, and Mark K. Ho. These collaborations reflect engagement with researchers active in overlapping areas of psychology, cognitive science, and behavioral economics.

Their research often examines mechanisms underpinning moral reasoning, decision-making, social cooperation, and communication. This includes investigations into how individuals form moral judgments, how cooperation emerges and sustains within groups, and how reputational considerations influence social behavior.

Best Publications

  • Damage to the prefrontal cortex increases utilitarian moral judgements

    Michael Koenigs;Liane Young;Ralph Adolphs;Ralph Adolphs;Daniel Tranel

  • The Role of Conscious Reasoning and Intuition in Moral Judgment Testing Three Principles of Harm

    Fiery Cushman;Liane Young;Marc Hauser

  • Crime and punishment: distinguishing the roles of causal and intentional analyses in moral judgment.

    Fiery Cushman

  • Many Labs 2: Investigating Variation in Replicability Across Samples and Settings

    Richard A. Klein;Michelangelo Vianello;Fred Hasselman;Byron G. Adams

  • A Dissociation Between Moral Judgments and Justifications

    Marc D. Hauser;Fiery Cushman;Liane Young;R. Kang-Xing Jin

  • Pushing moral buttons: the interaction between personal force and intention in moral judgment.

    Joshua D. Greene;Fiery Andrews Cushman;Lisa E. Stewart;Kelly Lowenberg

  • The neural basis of the interaction between theory of mind and moral judgment

    Liane Young;Fiery Cushman;Marc Hauser;Rebecca Saxe

  • Action, Outcome, and Value A Dual-System Framework for Morality

    Fiery Cushman

  • Expertise in Moral Reasoning? Order Effects on Moral Judgment in Professional Philosophers and Non-Philosophers

    Eric Schwitzgebel;Fiery Cushman

  • The development of intent-based moral judgment

    Fiery Cushman;Rachel Sheketoff;Sophie Wharton;Susan Carey

  • Simulating Murder: The Aversion to Harmful Action

    Fiery Cushman;Kurt Gray;Allison Gaffey;Wendy Berry Mendes

  • Evolving the Psychological Mechanisms for Cooperation

    Jeffrey R. Stevens;Fiery A. Cushman;Marc D. Hauser

  • Cost-Benefit Arbitration Between Multiple Reinforcement-Learning Systems.

    Wouter Kool;Samuel J Gershman;Fiery A Cushman

  • Philosophers’ biased judgments persist despite training, expertise and reflection

    Eric Schwitzgebel;Fiery Cushman

  • Rationalization is rational.

    Fiery Cushman

  • Finding faults: How moral dilemmas illuminate cognitive structure

    Fiery Cushman;Joshua D. Greene

  • Grammatical pattern learning by human infants and cotton-top tamarin monkeys

    Jenny Saffran;Marc Hauser;Rebecca Seibel;Joshua Kapfhamer

  • Patterns of Moral Judgment Derive From Nonmoral Psychological Representations

    Fiery Cushman;Liane L. Young

  • When Does Model-Based Control Pay Off?

    Wouter Kool;Fiery A. Cushman;Samuel J. Gershman

  • Habitual control of goal selection in humans

    Fiery Cushman;Adam Morris

  • Accidental outcomes guide punishment in a "trembling hand" game.

    Fiery Cushman;Anna Dreber;Anna Dreber;Ying Wang;Jay Costa

Frequent Co-Authors

Joshua Knobe
Joshua Knobe Yale University
Liane Young
Liane Young Boston College
Marc D. Hauser
Marc D. Hauser Harvard University
Samuel J. Gershman
Samuel J. Gershman Harvard University
Michael L. Littman
Michael L. Littman Brown University
Ralph Adolphs
Ralph Adolphs California Institute of Technology
Joshua D. Greene
Joshua D. Greene Harvard University
Mina Cikara
Mina Cikara Harvard University
Edouard Machery
Edouard Machery University of Pittsburgh
Jay J. Van Bavel
Jay J. Van Bavel New York University

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