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D-Index
41
Citations
8482
World Ranking
4973
National Ranking
2354

Overview

Jesse Prinz is affiliated with City University of New York in the United States and works primarily in the fields of neuroscience, psychology, and social sciences. Their research covers a diversity of subfields, including cognitive neuroscience, sociology and political science, social psychology, experimental and cognitive psychology, as well as visual arts and performing arts.

Their work engages with a range of main topics such as aesthetic perception and analysis, creativity in education and neuroscience, emotions and moral behavior, color perception and design, olfactory and sensory function studies, social and cultural dynamics, and critical race theory in education.

Recent publications by Jesse Prinz encompass diverse areas of interest and have appeared in recognized academic venues. These include:

  • The Attending Mind, 2022, The Philosophical Review
  • Aesthetic Emotions Reconsidered, 2020, The Monist
  • The Aesthetic Self. The Importance of Aesthetic Taste in Music and Art for Our Perceived Identity, 2021, Frontiers in Psychology
  • Emotional Injustice, 2024, Ergo an Open Access Journal of Philosophy
  • The role of emotional awareness in evaluative judgment: evidence from alexithymia, 2023, Scientific Reports

Jesse Prinz frequently collaborates with several scholars, including Joerg Fingerhut, Arina Pismenny, Javier Gomez-Lavin, Claudia Winklmayr, and Gen Eickers. These collaborations reflect the interdisciplinary and cooperative nature of their research efforts.

The venues where Jesse Prinz has published most often include The Monist, Frontiers in Psychology, Ergo an Open Access Journal of Philosophy, Scientific Reports, and The Philosophical Review. These publications mark a consistent engagement with both philosophical and empirical approaches within their research domain.

Best Publications

  • The Emotional Construction of Morals

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  • A Bad Taste in the Mouth Gustatory Disgust Influences Moral Judgment

    Kendall J. Eskine;Natalie A. Kacinik;Jesse J. Prinz

  • The emotional basis of moral judgments

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  • Intuitions about consciousness: Experimental studies

    Joshua Knobe;Jesse J. Prinz

  • Is Empathy Necessary for Morality

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  • AGAINST EMPATHY: AGAINST EMPATHY

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  • Attention and consciousness

    Felipe De Brigard;Jesse Prinz

  • Stirring Images: Fear, Not Happiness or Arousal, Makes Art More Sublime

    Kendall J. Eskine;Natalie A. Kacinik;Jesse J. Prinz

  • Which Emotions Are Basic

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  • The Sensory Basis of Cognitive Phenomenology1

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  • The Normativity Challenge: Cultural Psychology Provides the Real Threat to Virtue Ethics

    Jesse Prinz

  • Genealogies of Morals: Nietzsche’s Method Compared

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  • Sound morality: Irritating and icky noises amplify judgments in divergent moral domains

    Angelika Seidel;Jesse Prinz

  • Emotion and Aesthetic Value

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  • Beyond Appearances: The Content of Sensation and Perception

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  • Cognition and the Brain: A Neurofunctional Theory of Consciousness

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  • Wonder, appreciation, and the value of art.

    Joerg Fingerhut;Jesse J. Prinz

  • Aesthetic Emotions Reconsidered

    Joerg Fingerhut;Jesse J Prinz

  • The Return of Concept Empiricism

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  • Reviving Whorf: The Return of Linguistic Relativity

    Maria Francisca Reines;Jesse Prinz

  • The Aesthetic Self. The Importance of Aesthetic Taste in Music and Art for Our Perceived Identity

    Joerg Fingerhut;Javier Gomez-Lavin;Javier Gomez-Lavin;Claudia Winklmayr;Claudia Winklmayr;Jesse J. Prinz;Jesse J. Prinz

  • Grounding evaluative concepts.

    Joerg Fingerhut;Jesse J. Prinz

  • Mad and glad: Musically induced emotions have divergent impact on morals

    Angelika Seidel;Jesse Prinz

  • Against Moral Nativism

    Jesse J. Prinz

  • The Aesthetics of Punk Rock

    Jesse Prinz

  • Great works: A reciprocal relationship between spatial magnitudes and aesthetic judgment.

    Angelika Seidel;Jesse Prinz

  • Diachronic Identity and the Moral Self

    Jesse J. Prinz;Shaun Nichols

  • Where Do Morals Come From? – A Plea for a Cultural Approach

    Jesse J. Prinz

  • Emotion and Political Polarization

    Jesse Prinz

  • What Makes Something Fashionable

    Anya Farennikova;Jesse Prinz

  • Sensational Judgmentalism: Reconciling Solomon and James

    Jesse J. Prinz

Frequent Co-Authors

Shaun Nichols
Shaun Nichols Cornell University

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