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If you are looking for a basic overview of my research with links to relevant publications where appropriate, try taking a look at my research web page.
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)
Research Articles
Accidental outcomes guide punishment in a ‘trembling hand’ game
Cushman, F.A., A. Dreber, Y. Wang, J. Costa (2009) PLOS One 4(8): e6699. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0006699
The coevolution of punishment and prosociality among learning agents
Cushman, F.A., Macendoe, O. (2009) In N.A. Taatgen & H. van Rijn (Eds.), Proceedings of the 31st Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society
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. (2009) Cognition 111(3): 364-371
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:
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?
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:
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
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
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:
Cushman, F. (2006) In Character Fall 2006: 50-61
Book
Ed. M.D. Hauser, F.A. Cushman & M. Kamen (2006) Purdue University Press, West Lafayette
