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Joshua Greene

Professor of Psychology | Harvard University

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Publications

July 01, 2025

Defusing political animosity in the United States with a cooperative online quiz game→

July 01, 2025/ Lab Manager

Woodley L., DeFillipis, E., Ravi, S., Greene, J.D. (2025). Nature Human Behaviour. (Research Briefing)

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January 25, 2023

Boosting the impact of charitable giving with donation bundling and micro-matching (PDF)→

January 25, 2023/ Lab Manager

L. Caviola, & J. D. Greene (2023). Science Advances.

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May 05, 2021

The psychology of (in)effective altruism (PDF)→

May 05, 2021/ Lab Manager

L. Caviola, S. Schubert, & J.D. Greene (2021). Trends in Cognitive Sciences.

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April 13, 2020

Two ways to build a thought: Distinct forms of compositional semantic representation across brain regions (PDF)→

April 13, 2020/ Lab Manager

S.M. Frankland & J.D. Greene (2020). Cerebral Cortex.

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April 13, 2020

Concepts and compositionality: In search of the brain’s language of thought (PDF)→

April 13, 2020/ Lab Manager

S.M. Frankland & J.D. Greene (2020). Annual Review of Psychology.

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October 28, 2019

Veil-of-ignorance reasoning favors the greater good (PDF)→

October 28, 2019/ Lab Manager

K. Huang, J.D. Greene, & M. Bazerman (2019). Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

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October 28, 2019

Sacrificial utilitarian judgments do reflect concern for the greater good: Clarification via process dissociation and the judgments of philosophers (PDF)→

October 28, 2019/ Lab Manager

P. Conway, J. Goldstein-Greenwood, D. Polacek, & J.D. Greene (2018). Cognition.

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journal-articles, 2017
October 28, 2019

An Architecture for Encoding Sentence Meaning in Left Mid-Superior Temporal Cortex (PDF)→

October 28, 2019/ Lab Manager

S.M. Frankland & J.D. Greene (2015). Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

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journal-articles, 2015
September 27, 2016

Our Driveless Dilemma: When Should Your Car be Willing to Kill You? (PDF)→

September 27, 2016/ Lab Manager

J.D. Greene (2016). Science.

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2016, magazine article
September 27, 2016

Variation in the Oxytocin Receptor Gene (OXTR) is Associated with Differences in Moral Judgment (PDF)→

September 27, 2016/ Lab Manager

R.M. Bernhard, J. Chaponis, R. Siburian, P. Gallagher, K. Ransohoff, D. Wikler, *R.H. Perlis, & *J.D. Greene (2016). Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience.

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September 27, 2016

Embedding Ethical Principles in Collective Decision Support Systems→

September 27, 2016/ Lab Manager

J.D. Greene, F. Rossi, J. Tasioula, K.B. Veneable, & B. Williams (2016). Proceedings of the Thirtieth AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence.

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2016, conference proceedings
September 27, 2016

Solving the Trolley Problem (PDF)→

September 27, 2016/ Lab Manager

J.D. Greene (2016). In: A Companion to Experimental Psychology. John Wiley & Sons. 

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2016, book-chapter
June 23, 2015

The Rise of Moral Cognition (PDF)→

June 23, 2015/ Lab Manager

J.D. Greene (2015). Cognition. 135, 39-42.

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February 06, 2015

The Cognitive Neuroscience of Moral Judgment and Decision-Making (PDF)→

February 06, 2015/ ScienceSites

J.D. Greene (2014). The Cognitive Neurosciences V (ed. M.S. Gazzaniga). MIT Press, Cambridge, MA.

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book-chapter, 2014
February 05, 2015

From Fear Recognition to Kidney Donation (PDF)→

February 05, 2015/ ScienceSites

J.D. Greene (2014). Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 111(42), 14966-14967.
(Commentary on Marsh et al., 2014)

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2014, journal-articles
December 07, 2014

Response to Anticipated Reward in the Nucleus Accumbens Predicts Behavior in an Independent Test of Honesty (PDF)→

December 07, 2014/ ScienceSites

N. Abe and J.D. Greene (2014). Journal of Neuroscience. 34(32), 10564-10572.

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2014, journal-articles
December 07, 2014

Integrative Moral Judgment: Dissociating the Roles of the Amygdala and the Ventromedial Prefrontal Cortex (PDF)→

December 07, 2014/ ScienceSites

A. Shenhav and J.D. Greene (2014). Journal of Neuroscience. 34(13), 4741-4749.

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2014, journal-articles
December 07, 2014

Beyond Point-and-Shoot Morality: Why Cognitive (Neuro)science Matters for Ethics (PDF)→

December 07, 2014/ ScienceSites

J.D. Greene (2014). Ethics, 124(4), 695-726.
* See also: Notes on “The Normative Insignificance of Neuroscience” by Selim Berker

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2014, journal-articles
December 07, 2014

Free Will and Punishment: A Mechanistic View of Human Nature Reduces Retribution (PDF)→

December 07, 2014/ ScienceSites

A.F. Shariff, J.D. Greene, J.C. Karremans, J. Luguri, C.J. Clark, J.W. Schooler, R.F. Baumeister, and K.D. Vohs (2014 ePub). Psychological Science.

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2014, journal-articles
December 07, 2014

Social Heuristics Shape Intuitive Cooperation (PDF)→

December 07, 2014/ ScienceSites

* D.G. Rand, * A. Peysakhovich, G.T. Kraft-Todd, G.E. Newman, O. Wurzbacher, M.A. Nowak, and J.D. Greene (2014) Nature Communications. doi: 10.1038/ncomms4677

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journal-articles, 2014
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Joshua Greene

Lab Projects and Featured Publications

We’ve created a cooperative quiz game that reduces animosity and increases openness and respect across lines of division.

Woodley et al. Nature Human Behaviour (2025)

New lab project: Increase the impact of your donations with Giving Multiplier

We've built a donation platform that solves the "heart vs. head" dilemma in charitable giving while promoting super-effective charities

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

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

FEATURED Articles

Featured
Jul 1, 2025
Defusing political animosity in the United States with a cooperative online quiz game
Jul 1, 2025

Woodley L., DeFillipis, E., Ravi, S., Greene, J.D. (2025). Nature Human Behaviour. (Research Briefing)

Jul 1, 2025
Jan 25, 2023
Boosting the impact of charitable giving with donation bundling and micro-matching (PDF)
Jan 25, 2023

L. Caviola, & J. D. Greene (2023). Science Advances.

Jan 25, 2023
May 5, 2021
The psychology of (in)effective altruism (PDF)
May 5, 2021

L. Caviola, S. Schubert, & J.D. Greene (2021). Trends in Cognitive Sciences.

May 5, 2021
Apr 13, 2020
Two ways to build a thought: Distinct forms of compositional semantic representation across brain regions (PDF)
Apr 13, 2020

S.M. Frankland & J.D. Greene (2020). Cerebral Cortex.

Apr 13, 2020
Apr 13, 2020
Concepts and compositionality: In search of the brain’s language of thought (PDF)
Apr 13, 2020

S.M. Frankland & J.D. Greene (2020). Annual Review of Psychology.

Apr 13, 2020
 

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