2026 Liane Young: Psychology Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Psychology	63	3070	2827	1749	1575	180	20218

Liane Young 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 Liane Young sits on this spectrum.

31 publications 705+

This scientist: 180 publications — 62nd percentile

62% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Liane Young 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 Liane Young sits on this spectrum.

30 D-Index 144+

This scientist: 63 D-Index — 73rd percentile

73% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Overview

Liane Young is affiliated with Boston College in the United States. Their research spans multiple fields of study including psychology, social sciences, and neuroscience. Within these areas, their work covers various subfields such as cognitive neuroscience, sociology and political science, social psychology, experimental and cognitive psychology, and applied psychology.

The main topics of Liane Young's research focus on the psychology of moral and emotional judgment, social and intergroup psychology, cultural differences and values, psychological well-being and life satisfaction, experimental behavioral economics studies, evolutionary game theory and cooperation, as well as optimism, hope, and well-being.

The scientist has published extensively in several academic venues, with frequent contributions to the Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, Social Cognition, SSRN Electronic Journal, Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, and the British Journal of Social Psychology.

Among recent papers authored or co-authored by Liane Young are:

The sense of should: A biologically-based framework for modeling social pressure (2020) in Physics of Life Reviews
What We Owe to Family: The Impact of Special Obligations on Moral Judgment (2020) in Psychological Science
The Psychology of Motivated versus Rational Impression Updating (2020) in Trends in Cognitive Sciences
The role of right temporoparietal junction in processing social prediction error across relationship contexts (2020) in Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience
Psychology Is a Property of Persons, Not Averages or Distributions: Confronting the Group-to-Person Generalizability Problem in Experimental Psychology (2023) in Advances in Methods and Practices in Psychological Science

Liane Young has frequently collaborated with other researchers in their field. Regular co-authors include Stylianos Syropoulos, Kyle Fiore Law, Trystan Loustau, Minjae Kim, and Gordon Kraft-Todd.

Best Publications

Damage to the prefrontal cortex increases utilitarian moral judgements

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

2332
Citations
The Role of Conscious Reasoning and Intuition in Moral Judgment Testing Three Principles of Harm

Fiery Cushman;Liane Young;Marc Hauser

1549
Citations
Mind Perception Is the Essence of Morality

Kurt James Gray;Liane Young;Adam Waytz

1242
Citations
Many Labs 2: Investigating Variation in Replicability Across Samples and Settings

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

1059
Citations
A Dissociation Between Moral Judgments and Justifications

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

1036
Citations
The neural basis of the interaction between theory of mind and moral judgment

Liane Young;Fiery Cushman;Marc Hauser;Rebecca Saxe

796
Citations
Disruption of the right temporoparietal junction with transcranial magnetic stimulation reduces the role of beliefs in moral judgments

Liane Young;Joan Albert Camprodon;Marc Hauser;Alvaro Pascual-Leone

754
Citations
Impaired theory of mind for moral judgment in high-functioning autism.

Joseph M. Moran;Liane L. Young;Rebecca R. Saxe;Su Mei Lee

450
Citations
Low Levels of Empathic Concern Predict Utilitarian Moral Judgment

Ezequiel Gleichgerrcht;Liane Young

363
Citations
The neural basis of belief encoding and integration in moral judgment.

Liane L. Young;Liane L. Young;Rebecca Saxe

355
Citations
The whistleblower's dilemma and the fairness–loyalty tradeoff

Adam Waytz;James Dungan;Liane Young

354
Citations
Where in the brain is morality? Everywhere and maybe nowhere.

Liane Young;James Dungan

318
Citations
When ignorance is no excuse: Different roles for intent across moral domains.

Liane Young;Rebecca Saxe

318
Citations
Innocent intentions: a correlation between forgiveness for accidental harm and neural activity.

Liane Young;Rebecca Saxe

312
Citations
Decoding moral judgments from neural representations of intentions

Jorie Koster-Hale;Rebecca R. Saxe;James Dungan;Liane L. Young

297
Citations
What gets the attention of the temporo-parietal junction? An fMRI investigation of attention and theory of mind

Liane Young;David Dodell-Feder;Rebecca Saxe

294
Citations
Damage to Ventromedial Prefrontal Cortex Impairs Judgment of Harmful Intent

Liane Young;Antoine Bechara;Daniel Tranel;Hanna Damasio

293
Citations
The Moral Dyad: A Fundamental Template Unifying Moral Judgment.

Kurt Gray;Adam Waytz;Liane Young

284
Citations
Investigating emotion in moral cognition: a review of evidence from functional neuroimaging and neuropsychology

Liane Young;Michael Koenigs

265
Citations
An fmri investigation of spontaneous mental state inference for moral judgment

Liane Young;Rebecca Saxe

263
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Adam Waytz Northwestern University

Rebecca Saxe MIT

Fiery Cushman Harvard University

Marc D. Hauser Harvard University

Ralph Adolphs California Institute of Technology

Deborah Kelemen Boston University

Facundo Manes Favaloro University

Daniel Tranel University of Iowa

Antonio R. Damasio University of Southern California

Michael Koenigs University of Wisconsin–Madison

External Links

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