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Joshua Greene

Professor of Psychology | Harvard University

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Publications

December 07, 2014

Spontaneous Giving and Calculated Greed (PDF)→

December 07, 2014/ ScienceSites

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)→

December 07, 2014/ ScienceSites

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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December 07, 2014

The Philosopher in the Theater (PDF)→

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F.A. Cushman and J.D. Greene (2012). The Social Psychology of Morality: Exploring the Causes of Good and Evil (eds. M. Mikulincer and P.R. Shaver). APA Press.

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2012, book-chapter
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)→

December 07, 2014/ ScienceSites

* 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)→

December 07, 2014/ ScienceSites

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

Social Neuroscience and the Soul's Last Stand (PDF)→

December 07, 2014/ ScienceSites

J.D. Greene (2011). Social Neuroscience: Toward Understanding the Underpinnings of the Social Mind (eds. A. Todorov, S. Fiske, and D. Prentice). Oxford University Press, New York.

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2011, book-chapter
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
December 07, 2014

Moral Reasoning: Hints and Allegations (PDF)→

December 07, 2014/ ScienceSites

J.M. Paxton and J.D. Greene (2010). Topics in Cognitive Science, 2(3), 511-527.

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2010, journal-articles
December 07, 2014

Our Multi-System Moral Psychology: Towards a Consensus View (PDF)→

December 07, 2014/ ScienceSites

F. Cushman, L. Young, and J.D. Greene (2010). The Oxford Handbook of Moral Psychology (eds. J. Doris, G. Harman, S. Nichols, J. Prinz, W. Sinnott-Armstrong, and S. Stich). Oxford University Press.

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2010, book-chapter
December 07, 2014

Patterns of Neural Activity Associated With Honest and Dishonest Moral Decisions (PDF)→

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J.D. Greene and J.M. Paxton (2009). Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA, Vol. 106, No. 30, 12506-12511.

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2009, journal-articles
December 07, 2014

Dirty Work, Clean Hands: The Moral Psychology of Indirect Agency (PDF)→

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N. Paharia, K.S. Kassam, J.D. Greene, and M.H. Bazerman (2009). Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, 109, 134-141.

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2009, journal-articles
December 07, 2014

Pushing Moral Buttons: The Interaction Between Personal Force and Intention in Moral Judgment (PDF)→

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J.D. Greene, F.A. Cushman, L.E. Stewart, K. Lowenberg, L.E. Nystrom, and J.D. Cohen (2009). Cognition, Vol. 111 (3), 364-371.
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2009, journal-articles
December 07, 2014

Dual-Process Morality and the Personal/Impersonal Distinction: A Reply to McGuire, Langdon, Coltheart, and Mackenzie (PDF)→

December 07, 2014/ ScienceSites

J.D. Greene (2009). Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, Vol. 45 (3), 581-584.

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2009, journal-articles
December 07, 2014

The Cognitive Neuroscience of Moral Judgment (PDF)→

December 07, 2014/ ScienceSites

J.D. Greene (2009). The Cognitive Neurosciences IV (ed. M.S. Gazzaniga). MIT Press, Cambridge, MA.

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2009, book-chapter
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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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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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