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Joshua Greene

Professor of Psychology | Harvard University

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Publications

December 07, 2014

Fruit Flies of the Moral Mind→

December 07, 2014/ ScienceSites

J.D. Greene (2009). What's Next: Dispatches from the Future of Science (ed. M. Brockman). Vintage, New York.

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book-chapter, 2009
December 07, 2014

Cognitive Load Selectively Interferes With Utilitarian Moral Judgment (PDF)→

December 07, 2014/ ScienceSites

J.D. Greene, S.A. Morelli, K. Lowenberg, L.E. Nystrom, and J.D. Cohen (2008). Cognition, Vol. 107, 1144-1154.
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2008, journal-articles
December 07, 2014

Why Are VMPFC Patients More Utilitarian?: A Dual-Process Theory of Moral Judgment Explains (PDF)→

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J.D. Greene (2007). Trends in Cognitive Sciences. Vol 11, No. 8, 322-323.

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2007, journal-articles
December 06, 2014

The Secret Joke of Kant's Soul (PDF)→

December 06, 2014/ ScienceSites

J.D. Greene (2007). Moral Psychology, Vol. 3: The Neuroscience of Morality: Emotion, Disease, and Development(ed. W. Sinnott-Armstrong). MIT Press, Cambridge, MA.

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2007, book-chapter
December 06, 2014

Conflict Monitoring in Conflict-Emotion Competition→

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S.M. McClure, M.M. Botvinick, N. Yeung, J.D. Greene, and J.D. Cohen (2007). Handbook of Emotion Regulation (ed. J.J. Gross). Guilford Press, New York.

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2007, book-chapter
December 06, 2014

For the Law, Neuroscience Changes Nothing and Everything (PDF, journal version)→

December 06, 2014/ ScienceSites

J.D. Greene and J.D. Cohen (2006). Law and the Brain (eds. S. Zeki and O. Goodenough). Oxford University Press, New York.

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December 06, 2014

Emotion and Cognition in Moral Judgment: Evidence From Neuroimaging→

December 06, 2014/ ScienceSites

J. Greene (2005). Neurobiology of Human Values (eds. J.P. Changeux, A.R. Damasio, W. Singer, and Y. Christen). Springer-Verlag, Berlin.

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2005, book-chapter
December 06, 2014

Cognitive Neuroscience and the Structure of the Moral Mind (PDF)→

December 06, 2014/ ScienceSites

J. Greene (2005). The Innate Mind: Structure and Contents (eds. S. Laurence, P. Carruthers, and S. Stich). Oxford University Press, New York.

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December 06, 2014

For the Law, Neuroscience Changes Nothing and Everything (PDF)→

December 06, 2014/ ScienceSites

J.D. Greene and J. D. Cohen (2004). Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London B, (Special Issue on Law and the Brain), 359, 1775-17785.

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2004, journal-articles
December 06, 2014

The Neural Bases of Cognitive Conflict and Control in Moral Judgment (PDF)→

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J.D. Greene, L.E. Nystrom, A.D. Engell, J.M. Darley, and J.D. Cohen (2004). Neuron, Vol. 44, 389-400.

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2004, journal-articles
December 06, 2014

From Neural "Is" to Moral "Ought": What Are the Moral Implications of Neuroscientific Moral Psychology? (PDF)→

December 06, 2014/ ScienceSites

J.D. Greene (2003). Nature Reviews Neuroscience, Vol. 4, 847-850.

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2003, journal-articles
December 06, 2014

How (and Where) Does Moral Judgment Work? (PDF)→

December 06, 2014/ ScienceSites

J. Greene and J. Haidt (2002). Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 6(12), 517-523.

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2002, journal-articles
December 06, 2014

An fMRI Investigation of Emotional Engagement in Moral Judgment (PDF)→

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J.D. Greene, R.B. Sommerville, L.E. Nystrom, J.M. Darley, and J.D. Cohen (2001). Science, Vol. 293, 2105-2108.

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2001, journal-articles
December 06, 2014

Intuitions About Declining Marginal Utility (PDF)→

December 06, 2014/ ScienceSites

J.D. Greene and J. Baron (2001). Journal of Behavioral Decision Making, 14, 243-255.

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2001, journal-articles
December 06, 2014

Determinants of Insensitivity to Quantity in Valuation of Public Goods (PDF)→

December 06, 2014/ ScienceSites

J. Baron and J.D. Greene (1996). Journal of Experimental Psychology: Applied, 2, 107-125.

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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.

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

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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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