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D-Index
59
Citations
18418
World Ranking
3651
National Ranking
2050

Overview

Joshua Knobe is affiliated with Yale University in the United States. Their research spans multiple areas within neuroscience and psychology, focusing particularly on aspects such as moral and emotional judgment, cognitive processes, and decision-making behavior.

The scientist's main fields of study include Neuroscience and Psychology, with significant contributions to the subfields of Cognitive Neuroscience, Social Psychology, Developmental and Educational Psychology, Sociology and Political Science, and Philosophy. Their work addresses diverse topics such as the Psychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment, Child and Animal Learning Development, Epistemology, Ethics, and Metaphysics, Free Will and Agency, Cultural Differences and Values, Decision-Making and Behavioral Economics, and Social and Intergroup Psychology.

Joshua Knobe has published extensively in several academic journals. The most frequent venues include Cognition, Review of Philosophy and Psychology, Journal of Experimental Psychology General, Behavioral and Brain Sciences, and SSRN Electronic Journal.

Recent papers authored or co-authored by Joshua Knobe include:

  • Philosophical Intuitions Are Surprisingly Stable Across both Demographic Groups and Situations, 2021, Filozofia Nauki
  • Knowledge before belief, 2020, Behavioral and Brain Sciences
  • Autonomy in consumer choice, 2020, Marketing Letters
  • Experimental Philosophical Bioethics, 2020, AJOB Empirical Bioethics
  • Happiness is from the soul: The nature and origins of our happiness concept., 2020, Journal of Experimental Psychology General

Throughout their career, they have collaborated frequently with several co-authors including Jonathan Phillips, Fiery Cushman, Brian D. Earp, Ivar R. Hannikainen, and George E. Newman.

Best Publications

  • Intentional Action and Side Effects in Ordinary Language

    Joshua Knobe

  • The Folk Concept of Intentionality

    Bertram F. Malle;Joshua Knobe

  • Experimental Philosophy: Volume 2

    Joshua Knobe;Shaun Nichols

  • Moral Responsibility and Determinism: The Cognitive Science of Folk Intuitions

    Shaun Nichols;Joshua Knobe

  • Disgust sensitivity predicts intuitive disapproval of gays.

    Yoel Inbar;David A. Pizarro;Joshua Knobe;Paul Bloom

  • Intentional Action in Folk Psychology: An Experimental Investigation

    Joshua Knobe

  • Oxford studies in experimental philosophy

    Tania Lombrozo;Joshua Michael Knobe;Shaun Nichols

  • Acting intentionally and the side-effect effect: 'Theory of mind' and moral judgment

    Alan M. Leslie;Joshua Knobe;Adam Cohen

  • The Concept of Intentional Action: A Case Study in the Uses of Folk Psychology

    Joshua Knobe

  • Cause and Norm

    Christopher Hitchcock;Joshua Knobe

  • Person as scientist, person as moralist.

    Joshua Knobe

  • The True Self: A Psychological Concept Distinct From the Self:

    Nina Strohminger;Joshua Knobe;George Newman

  • More than a body: mind perception and the nature of objectification.

    Kurt Gray;Joshua Knobe;Mark Sheskin;Paul Bloom

  • Intuitions about consciousness: Experimental studies

    Joshua Knobe;Jesse J. Prinz

  • Value Judgments and the True Self

    George E. Newman;Paul Bloom;Joshua Knobe

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

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

  • Intention, intentional action and moral considerations

    Joshua Knobe

  • Free to punish: a motivated account of free will belief.

    Cory J. Clark;Jamie B. Luguri;Peter H. Ditto;Joshua Knobe

  • Causal judgment and moral judgment: Two experiments

    Joshua Knobe;Benjamin Fraser

  • Is Belief in Free Will a Cultural Universal

    Hagop Sarkissian;Amita Chatterjee;Felipe De Brigard;Joshua Knobe;Joshua Knobe

  • The social origin and moral nature of human thinking

    Jeremy I. M. Carpendale;Stuart I. Hammond;Charlie Lewis

Frequent Co-Authors

Fiery Cushman
Fiery Cushman Harvard University
Shaun Nichols
Shaun Nichols Cornell University
Bertram F. Malle
Bertram F. Malle Brown University
Frank C. Keil
Frank C. Keil Yale University
Tania Lombrozo
Tania Lombrozo Princeton University
Paul Bloom
Paul Bloom Columbia University
Sarah E. Nelson
Sarah E. Nelson Harvard University
David A. Pizarro
David A. Pizarro Cornell University
Roy F. Baumeister
Roy F. Baumeister University of Queensland
Woo-kyoung Ahn
Woo-kyoung Ahn Yale University

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