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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

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

    Fiery Cushman;Liane Young;Marc Hauser

  • Mind Perception Is the Essence of Morality

    Kurt James Gray;Liane Young;Adam Waytz

  • 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

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

    Liane Young;Fiery Cushman;Marc Hauser;Rebecca Saxe

  • 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

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

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

  • Low Levels of Empathic Concern Predict Utilitarian Moral Judgment

    Ezequiel Gleichgerrcht;Liane Young

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

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

  • The whistleblower's dilemma and the fairness–loyalty tradeoff

    Adam Waytz;James Dungan;Liane Young

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

    Liane Young;James Dungan

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

    Liane Young;Rebecca Saxe

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

    Liane Young;Rebecca Saxe

  • Decoding moral judgments from neural representations of intentions

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

  • 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

  • Damage to Ventromedial Prefrontal Cortex Impairs Judgment of Harmful Intent

    Liane Young;Antoine Bechara;Daniel Tranel;Hanna Damasio

  • The Moral Dyad: A Fundamental Template Unifying Moral Judgment.

    Kurt Gray;Adam Waytz;Liane Young

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

    Liane Young;Michael Koenigs

  • An fmri investigation of spontaneous mental state inference for moral judgment

    Liane Young;Rebecca Saxe

Frequent Co-Authors

Adam Waytz
Adam Waytz Northwestern University
Fiery Cushman
Fiery Cushman Harvard University
Marc D. Hauser
Marc D. Hauser Harvard University
Ralph Adolphs
Ralph Adolphs California Institute of Technology
Deborah Kelemen
Deborah Kelemen Boston University
Facundo Manes
Facundo Manes Favaloro University
Daniel Tranel
Daniel Tranel University of Iowa
Antonio R. Damasio
Antonio R. Damasio University of Southern California
Michael Koenigs
Michael Koenigs University of Wisconsin–Madison

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