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Overview

Joshua D. Greene is affiliated with Harvard University in the United States. Their research intersects the fields of Neuroscience, Social Sciences, and Psychology, focusing extensively on cognitive and social aspects of human behavior.

Their main fields of study include:

  • Neuroscience
  • Social Sciences
  • Psychology

Within these domains, Joshua D. Greene has contributed notably to several subfields such as Cognitive Neuroscience, Sociology and Political Science, Safety Research, Information Systems and Management, and Experimental and Cognitive Psychology.

The primary research topics covered in their work are:

  • Psychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment
  • Experimental Behavioral Economics Studies
  • Ethics in Business and Education
  • Memory and Neural Mechanisms
  • Memory Processes and Influences
  • Social Media and Politics
  • Emotions and Moral Behavior

Joshua D. Greene has co-authored frequently with various researchers, including:

  • Hallvard Lillehammer
  • Lucius Caviola
  • Steven Frankland
  • Evan DeFilippis
  • Daniel L. Schacter

Their recent publications demonstrate a range of topics and venues. Noteworthy papers include:

  • The Psychology of (In)Effective Altruism, 2021, Trends in Cognitive Sciences
  • Two Ways to Build a Thought: Distinct Forms of Compositional Semantic Representation across Brain Regions, 2020, Cerebral Cortex
  • Comparing the effect of rational and emotional appeals on donation behavior, 2020, Judgment and Decision Making
  • Megastudy testing 25 treatments to reduce antidemocratic attitudes and partisan animosity, 2024, Science
  • The Language of Creativity: Evidence from Humans and Large Language Models, 2024, The Journal of Creative Behavior

In terms of publication venues, Joshua D. Greene has contributed to the following journals multiple times:

  • Judgment and Decision Making
  • Trends in Cognitive Sciences
  • Cerebral Cortex
  • Science
  • The Journal of Creative Behavior

Additionally, Joshua D. Greene has published a book titled The Trolley Problem in 2023 with Cambridge University Press.

Best Publications

  • An fMRI Investigation of Emotional Engagement in Moral Judgment

    Joshua D. Greene;R. Brian Sommerville;Leigh E. Nystrom;John M. Darley

  • The neural bases of cognitive conflict and control in moral judgment.

    Joshua D. Greene;Leigh E. Nystrom;Andrew D. Engell;John M. Darley

  • How (and where) does moral judgment work

    Joshua D. Greene;Jonathan Haidt

  • Moral Tribes: Emotion, Reason, and the Gap Between Us and Them

    Joshua David Greene

  • Spontaneous giving and calculated greed

    David G. Rand;David G. Rand;Joshua D. Greene;Martin A. Nowak

  • Cognitive load selectively interferes with utilitarian moral judgment

    Joshua D. Greene;Sylvia A. Morelli;Kelly Lowenberg;Leigh E. Nystrom

  • The secret joke of Kant's soul.

    Joshua D. Greene

  • Social heuristics shape intuitive cooperation

    David G. Rand;Alexander Peysakhovich;Alexander Peysakhovich;Gordon T. Kraft-Todd;George E. Newman

  • 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

  • For the law, neuroscience changes nothing and everything.

    Joshua Greene;Jonathan D. Cohen

  • Why are VMPFC patients more utilitarian? A dual-process theory of moral judgment explains.

    Joshua D. Greene

  • Divine intuition: cognitive style influences belief in God.

    Amitai Shenhav;David G. Rand;Joshua D. Greene

  • From neural 'is' to moral 'ought': what are the moral implications of neuroscientific moral psychology?

    Joshua D. Greene

  • Reflection and Reasoning in Moral Judgment

    Joseph M. Paxton;Leo Ungar;Joshua D. Greene

  • Beyond Point-and-Shoot Morality: Why Cognitive (Neuro)Science Matters for Ethics

    Joshua D. Greene

  • Patterns of neural activity associated with honest and dishonest moral decisions

    Joshua D. Greene;Joseph M. Paxton

  • Dual-process morality and the personal/impersonal distinction: A reply to McGuire, Langdon, Coltheart, and Mackenzie

    Joshua D. Greene

  • Moral judgments recruit domain-general valuation mechanisms to integrate representations of probability and magnitude.

    Amitai Shenhav;Joshua D. Greene

  • Free Will and Punishment A Mechanistic View of Human Nature Reduces Retribution

    Azim F. Shariff;Joshua D. Greene;Johan C. Karremans;Jamie B. Luguri

  • Moral reasoning: hints and allegations.

    Joseph M. Paxton;Joshua D. Greene

  • You See, the Ends Don’t Justify the Means: Visual Imagery and Moral Judgment

    Elinor Amit;Joshua D. Greene

  • Integrative moral judgment: dissociating the roles of the amygdala and ventromedial prefrontal cortex.

    Amitai Shenhav;Joshua D. Greene

  • The cognitive neuroscience of moral judgment.

    Joshua D. Greene

Frequent Co-Authors

David G. Rand
David G. Rand Cornell University
Jonathan D. Cohen
Jonathan D. Cohen Princeton University
Amitai Shenhav
Amitai Shenhav Brown University
Jonathan Baron
Jonathan Baron University of Pennsylvania
Fiery Cushman
Fiery Cushman Harvard University
Roy F. Baumeister
Roy F. Baumeister University of Queensland
John M. Darley
John M. Darley Princeton University
Ilana Ritov
Ilana Ritov Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Kathleen D. Vohs
Kathleen D. Vohs University of Minnesota
Jonathan W. Schooler
Jonathan W. Schooler University of California, Santa Barbara

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