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Articles in preparation   (PDFs not available)



Why do we punish and reward accidents? An experimental investigation

Cushman, F.A., Costa, J. (in prep)


Judgments of naughtiness versus punishment rely differentially on intentions versus outcomes in young children

Cushman, F.A., R. Sheketoff, S. Wharton, S. Carey (in prep)



The coevolution of punishment and prosociality in a population of learning agents

Cushman, F.A., Macendoe, O. and Rand, D. (in prep)


Accidental outcomes guide punishment in a ‘trembling hand’ game

Cushman, F.A., A. Dreber, Y. Wang, J. Costa (submitted)


The role of mental state attribution in moral judgment:

A dissociation between help and harm

Cushman, F.A. (submitted)


Deriving moral principles from non-moral representations: 

A study of three distinctions

Cushman, F.A., L. Young & M. Hauser (submitted)




Research Articles



Pushing moral buttons:

The interaction between personal force and intention in moral judgment

Greene, J.D., Cushman, F.A., Stewart, L.E, Lowenberg, K., Nystrom, L.E., Cohen, J.D. (in press)  Cognition


Crime and Punishment:

Distinguishing the roles of causal and intentional analyses in moral judgment

Cushman, F.A. (2008)  Cognition 108(2): 353-380


Moral judgments impact doing/allowing judgments

Cushman, F.A., J. Knobe, W. Sinnott-Armstrong (2008) Cognition 108(1): 281-289


Intentional action, folk judgments and stories:

Sorting things out

Mele, A. & F.A. Cushman (2007) Midwest Studies in Philosophy 31(1): 184-201


Brain regions for belief attribution drive moral condemnation for crimes of attempt

Young, L., F.A. Cushman, M.D. Hauser, R. Saxe. (2007) Proceedings of the National Academy of Science 104(20): 8235-8240


Damage to ventromedial prefrontal cortex increases utilitarian moral judgments

Koenigs, M., Young, L., R. Adolphs, D. Tranel F.A. Cushman, M.D. Hauser & A. Damasio (2007) Nature 446: 908-911


A dissociation between moral judgments and justifications

Hauser, M.D., F.A. Cushman, L. Young, R. Kang-Xing Jin & J. Mikhail (2007) Mind and Language 22(1): 1-21


The Role of Reasoning and Intuition in Moral Judgments:

Testing three principles of harm

Cushman, F.A., L. Young & M.D. Hauser (2006) Psychological Science 17(12): 1082-1089


Does emotion mediate the relationship between an action's moral status and its intentional status?

Neuropsychological evidence

Young, L., F.A. Cushman, R. Adolphs, D. Tranel & M.D. Hauser (2006) Journal of Culture and Cognition 6(1-2): 291-304


Cognitive constraints on reciprocity and tolerated scrounging

Stevens, J.R. & F.A. Cushman (2004). Commentary on M. Gurven, Behavioral and Brain Sciences 27:4




Reviews & Book Chapters


Our multi-system moral psychology:

Towards a consensus view

Cushman, F.A., L. Young & J. Greene (in press) in The Oxford Handbook of Moral Psychology


Moral intuitions as heuristics (PDF not available)

Sinnott-Armstrong, W., L. Young and F.A. Cushman (in press) in The Oxford Handbook of Moral Psychology


The Psychology of Dilemmas and the Philosophy of Morality

Cushman, F.A. & L. Young (2009) Ethical Theory and Moral Practice 12(1): 9


Intentional action:

Two and half folk concepts (PDF not available)

Cushman, F.A. & A. Mele (2008) in Experimental Philosophy, ed. J. Knobe and S. Nichols. New York: Oxford University Press, NY


Reviving Rawls' Linguistic Analogy

Hauser, M.D., L. Young & F.A. Cushman (2008) in Moral Psychology and Biology ed. W. Sinnott-Armstrong, Oxford University Press, NY


Aping ethics:

Behavioral homologies and nonhuman rights

Cushman, F.A. (2006) in People, Property or Pets? ed. M. Hauser, F. Cushman & M. Kamen; Purdue University Press, West Lafayette


Evolving the psychological mechanisms for cooperation

Stevens, J.R., F.A. Cushman & M.D. Hauser (2005) Annual Review of Ecology and Systematics 36:499-518




Essays & Book Reviews



The Psychology of Justice: 

A review of Natural Justice by Kenneth Binmore

Cushman, F.A., L. Young & M.D. Hauser (2006) Analyse & Kritik 28:95-98


The Declaration of Independence:

A Lab Report

Cushman, F. (2006)  In Character  Fall 2006: 50-61




Book



People, Property or Pets?

Ed.  M.D. Hauser, F.A. Cushman & M. Kamen (2006) Purdue University Press, West Lafayette

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