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| Joshua D GreeneSummaryAffiliation: Princeton University Country: USA Publications
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An fMRI investigation of emotional engagement in moral judgmentJ D Greene
Center for the Study of Brain, Mind, and Behavior, Department of Philosophy, 1879 Hall, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ 08544, USA
Science 293:2105-8. 2001..These results may shed light on some puzzling patterns in moral judgment observed by contemporary philosophers...
From neural 'is' to moral 'ought': what are the moral implications of neuroscientific moral psychology?Joshua Greene
Department of Psychology and the Center for the Study of Brain, Mind, and Behavior, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey 08544, USA
Nat Rev Neurosci 4:846-9. 2003
The neural bases of cognitive conflict and control in moral judgmentJoshua D Greene
Department of Psychology, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ 08544, USA
Neuron 44:389-400. 2004..We speculate that the controversy surrounding utilitarian moral philosophy reflects an underlying tension between competing subsystems in the brain...
For the law, neuroscience changes nothing and everythingJoshua Greene
Department of Psychology, Center for the Study of Brain, Mind, and Behavior, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ 08544, USA
Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci 359:1775-85. 2004..We foresee, and recommend, a shift away from punishment aimed at retribution in favour of a more progressive, consequentialist approach to the criminal law...
Reflection and reasoning in moral judgmentJoseph M Paxton
Department of Psychology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA
Cogn Sci 36:163-77. 2012..These factors interacted in a manner consistent with moral reasoning: A strong argument defending the incestuous behavior was more persuasive than a weak argument, but only when increased deliberation time encouraged subjects to reflect...
Moral judgments recruit domain-general valuation mechanisms to integrate representations of probability and magnitudeAmitai Shenhav
Department of Psychology, Harvard University, 33 Kirkland Street, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA
Neuron 67:667-77. 2010..The present results suggest that complex life-and-death moral decisions that affect others depend on neural circuitry adapted for more basic, self-interested decision making involving material rewards...
Pushing moral buttons: the interaction between personal force and intention in moral judgmentJoshua D Greene
Department of Psychology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA
Cognition 111:364-71. 2009..These studies also introduce a method for controlling for people's real-world expectations in decisions involving potentially unrealistic hypothetical dilemmas...
Patterns of neural activity associated with honest and dishonest moral decisionsJoshua D Greene
Department of Psychology, Harvard University, 33 Kirkland Street, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 106:12506-11. 2009..Levels of activity in these regions correlated with the frequency of dishonesty in individuals...
Divine intuition: cognitive style influences belief in GodAmitai Shenhav
Department of Psychology, Harvard University, 33 Kirkland Street, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA
J Exp Psychol Gen 141:423-8. 2012..Study 3 revealed such a causal relationship over the short term: Experimentally inducing a mindset that favors intuition over reflection increases self-reported belief in God...
Why are VMPFC patients more utilitarian? A dual-process theory of moral judgment explainsJoshua D Greene
Trends Cogn Sci 11:322-3; author reply 323-4. 2007
Cognitive load selectively interferes with utilitarian moral judgmentJoshua D Greene
Department of Psychology, Harvard University, 33 Kirkland St, Cambridge, MA 02138, United States
Cognition 107:1144-54. 2008..This interference effect provides direct evidence for the influence of controlled cognitive processes in moral judgment, and utilitarian moral judgment more specifically...
