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Joshua Greene

Professor of Psychology | Harvard University

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Publications

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
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)→

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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)→

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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)→

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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)→

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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)→

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* 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
December 07, 2014

Are "Counter-Intuitive" Deontological Judgments Really Counter-Intuitive? (PDF)→

December 07, 2014/ ScienceSites

An Empirical Reply to Kahane et al. (2012) 

J.M. Paxton, T. Bruni, and J.D. Greene (2013 ePub). Social, Cognitive, and Affective Neuroscience.

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journal-articles, 2013
December 07, 2014

Spontaneous Giving and Calculated Greed (PDF)→

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D.G. Rand, *J.D. Greene, and *M.A. Nowak (2012). Nature, 489, 427-430.

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journal-articles, 2012
December 07, 2014

You See, the Ends Don't Justify the Means: Visual Imagery and Moral Judgment (PDF)→

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E. Amit and J.D. Greene (2012). Psychological Science, 23(8), 861-868.

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2012, journal-articles
December 07, 2014

Finding Faults: How Moral Dilemmas Illuminate Cognitive Structure (PDF)→

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F.A. Cushman and J.D. Greene (2012). Social Neuroscience, 7(3-4), 269-279.

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journal-articles, 2012
December 07, 2014

The Duty to Support Nationalistic Policies (PDF)→

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J. Baron, I. Ritov, and J.D. Greene (2011 ePub, 2013). Journal of Behavioral Decision Making, 26(2) 128-138.

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2011, journal-articles
December 07, 2014

Judgment Before Principle: Engagement of the Frontoparietal Control Network in Condemning Harms of Omission (PDF)→

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F.A. Cushman, D. Murray, S. Gordon-McKeon, S. Wharton, and J.D. Greene (2011 ePub, 2012). Social, Cognitive, and Affective Neuroscience, 7(8) 888-895.

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2011, journal-articles
December 07, 2014

Divine Intuition: Cognitive Style Influences Belief in God (PDF)→

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* A.S. Shenhav, * D.G. Rand, and J.D. Greene (2011 ePub, 2012). Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 141(3) 423-8.

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2011, journal-articles
December 07, 2014

Reflection and Reasoning in Moral Judgment (PDF)→

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J.M. Paxton, L. Ungar, and J.D. Greene (2011 ePub, 2012). Cognitive Science, 36(1) 163-177.

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2011, journal-articles
December 07, 2014

Sorting Guilty Minds→

December 07, 2014/ ScienceSites

F.X. Shen, M.B. Hoffman, O.D. Jones, J.D. Greene, and R. Marois (2011). New York University Law Review, Vol. 80.

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2011, journal-articles
December 07, 2014

Emotion and Morality: A Tasting Menu (PDF)→

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J.D. Greene (2011). Emotion Review, 3(3) 1-3.
* Editor’s introduction to special issue

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2011, journal-articles
December 07, 2014

Moral Judgments Recruit Domain-General Valuation Mechanisms to Integrate Representations of Probability and Magnitude (PDF)→

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A.S. Shenhav and J.D. Greene (2010). Neuron, 67, 667-677.

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2010, journal-articles
December 07, 2014

In Favor of Clear Thinking: Incorporating Moral Rules Into Wise Cost-Benefit Analysis (PDF)→

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M.H. Bazerman and J.D. Greene (2010). Perspectives on Psychological Science, 5(2), 209-212.

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2010, journal-articles
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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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