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Selected readings · 45 works
Moral
Psychology
A cross-disciplinary reading list spanning moral cognition, philosophy, development, neuroscience, economics, cultural anthropology, and evolutionary theory.
(2002). Altruistic punishment in humans. Nature, 415, 137–140.
(1990). Governing the commons: The evolution of institutions for collective action. Cambridge University Press.
(1971). The evolution of reciprocal altruism. The Quarterly Review of Biology, 46(1), 35–57.
(1982). Moral saints. The Journal of Philosophy, 79(8), 419–439.
(2014). A theory of blame. Psychological Inquiry, 25(2), 147–186.
(1979). Moral luck. In Mortal questions (pp. 24–38). Cambridge University Press.
(1977). Moral development: A review of the theory. Theory Into Practice, 16(2), 53–59.
(2009). Piaget’s theory of moral development. In U. Müller, J. I. M. Carpendale, & L. Smith (Eds.), The Cambridge companion to Piaget (pp. 270–286). Cambridge University Press.
(2005). Moral conviction: Another contributor to attitude strength or something more?. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 88(6), 895–917.
(1977). In a different voice: Women’s conceptions of self and of morality. Harvard Educational Review, 47(4), 481–517.
(2001). An fMRI investigation of emotional engagement in moral judgment. Science, 293(5537), 2105–2108.
(2007). The neural basis of the interaction between theory of mind and moral judgment. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 104(20), 8235–8240.
(2010). Punishers benefit from third-party punishment in fish. Science, 327(5962), 171.
(1978). Social regulations and domains of social concepts. New Directions for Child and Adolescent Development, 1978(1), 45–74.
(2004). Third-party punishment and social norms. Evolution and Human Behavior, 25(2), 63–87.
(1988). The evolution of reciprocity in sizable groups. Journal of Theoretical Biology, 132(3), 337–356.
(2001). Costly signaling and cooperation. Journal of Theoretical Biology, 213(1), 103–119.
(2001). Why people punish defectors: Weak conformist transmission can stabilize costly enforcement of norms in cooperative dilemmas. Journal of Theoretical Biology, 208(1), 79–89.
(2006). Altruistic helping in human infants and young chimpanzees. Science, 311(5765), 1301–1303.
(2003). The evolution of altruistic punishment. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 100(6), 3531–3535.
(2016). Third-party punishment as a costly signal of trustworthiness. Nature, 530(7591), 473–476.
(2012). Mind perception is the essence of morality. Psychological Inquiry, 23(2), 101–124.
(2001). The emotional dog and its rational tail: A social intuitionist approach to moral judgment. Psychological Review, 108(4), 814–834.
(2014). The myth of harmless wrongs in moral cognition: Automatic dyadic completion from sin to suffering. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 143(4), 1600–1615.
(2011). Mapping the moral domain. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 101(2), 366–385.
(2016). Rational learners and moral rules. Mind & Language, 31(5), 530–554.
(2000). The psychology of the unthinkable: Taboo trade-offs, forbidden base rates, and heretical counterfactuals. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 78(5), 853–870.
(2011). Moral psychology is relationship regulation: Moral motives for unity, hierarchy, equality, and proportionality. Psychological Review, 118(1), 57–75.
(2006). Costly punishment across human societies. Science, 312(5781), 1767–1770.
(2014). Harm to others outweighs harm to self in moral decision making. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 111(48), 17320–17325.
(2008). Crime and punishment: Distinguishing the roles of causal and intentional analyses in moral judgment. Cognition, 108(2), 353–380.
(2003). Intentional action and side effects in ordinary language. Analysis, 63(279), 190–194.
(2000). Culpable control and the psychology of blame. Psychological Bulletin, 126(4), 556–574.
(2002). Why do we punish? Deterrence and just deserts as motives for punishment. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 83(2), 284–299.
(2014). Moral character predominates in person perception and evaluation. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 106(1), 148–168.
(1981). Practical necessity. In Moral luck: Philosophical papers 1973–1980 (pp. 124–131). Cambridge University Press.
(2010). Young children selectively avoid helping people with harmful intentions. Child Development, 81(6), 1661–1669.
(2014). Does disgust influence moral judgment?. Australasian Journal of Philosophy, 92(1), 125–141.
(2015). “Utilitarian” judgments in sacrificial moral dilemmas do not reflect impartial concern for the greater good. Cognition, 134, 193–209.
(2013). Deontological and utilitarian inclinations in moral decision making: A process dissociation approach. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 104(2), 216–235.
(1987). Culture and moral development. In J. Kagan & S. Lamb (Eds.), The emergence of morality in young children (pp. 1–83). University of Chicago Press.
(1998). Normative ethics. Westview Press. Assigned: Chapters 1–3.
(2013). Diagnostic value underlies asymmetric updating of impressions in the morality and ability domains. The Journal of Neuroscience, 33(50), 19406–19415.
(2018). Beliefs about bad people are volatile. Nature Human Behaviour, 2(10), 750–756.