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Helion, C. & Pizarro, D.A. (2013). Beyond dual-processes: The interplay of reason and emotion in moral judgment. Draft submitted for inclusion in N. Levy & Clausen, J. (Eds.) Springer Handbook for Neuroethics.
Inbar, Y. & Pizarro, D.A. (2013). Pollution and purity in moral and political judgment. Draft submitted for inclusion in J. Wright and Sarkissian, H. (Eds.) Advances in Experimental Moral Psychology: Affect, Character, and Commitments. Continuum Press.
Pizarro, D.A., & Baumeister, R. (in press) Superhero comics as moral pornography. For inclusion in R. Rosenberg (Ed.) Our Superheroes, Ourselves. Oxford University Press.
2013
Inbar, Y. & Pizarro, D.A. (2013) Political psychology. In H. Pashler (Ed.) Encyclopedia of the mind. Sage.
Pizarro, D.A. (2013). Human intuitions will stifle technological progress. [Edge.org 2013 World Question Center]
2012
Critcher, C., Inbar, Y. & Pizarro, D.A. (2012). How quick decisions illuminate moral character. Social Psychological and Personality Science.
Inbar, Y., Pizarro, D. A., Gilovich, T., & Ariely, D. (2012). Moral masochism: On the connection between guilt and self-punishment. Emotion, 13, 14-18.
Reynolds, L., Consedine, N., Pizarro, D.A., & Bissett, I. (2012). Disgust and behavioral avoidance in colorectal cancer screening and treatment: A systematic review and research agenda. Cancer Nursing: An international journal for cancer care, 36, 122-130.
DeSteno, D., Breazeal, C., Frank, R. H., Pizarro, D., Baumann, J., Dickens, L, & Lee, J. (2012). Detecting the trustworthiness of novel partners in economic exchange. Psychological Science, 23, 1549-1556.
Inbar, Y., Pizarro, D.A., Iyer, R., & Haidt, J. (2012). Disgust sensitivity, political conservatism, and voting. Social Psychological and Personality Science, 3, 537-544.
Uhlmann, E. L., Zhu, L. L., Pizarro, D.A., & Bloom, P. (2012) Blood is thicker: Moral spillover effects based on kinship. Cognition, 124, 239-243.
Pizarro, D.A., Tannenbaum, D., & Uhlmann, E.L. (2012). Mindless, harmless, and blameworthy. Psychological Inquiry, 23, 185-188
Inbar, Y., Pizarro, D.A., & Cushman, F. (2012). Benefiting from misfortune: When harmless actions are judged to be morally blameworthy. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 38, 52-62.
Inbar, Y., Pizarro, D.A., & Bloom (2012). Disgusting smells cause decreased liking of gay men. Emotion, 12, 23-27.
Pizarro, D. (2012). What is your favorite deep, elegant, or beautiful explanation? In J. Brockman (Ed.), This explains everything. New York: Harper Perennial.
2011
Pizarro, D.A. (2011). Why neuroscience does not pose a threat to moral responsibility [editorial]. American Journal of Bioethics, Neuroscience, 2, 1-2.
Pizarro, D.A., Inbar, Y., & Helion, C. (2011). On disgust and moral judgment. Emotion Review, 3, 267–268.
Pizarro, D.A. & Tannenbaum, D. (2011). Bringing character back: How the motivation to evaluate character influences judgments of moral blame. In M. Mikulincer & Shaver, P. (Eds) The Social psychology of morality: Exploring the causes of good and evil. APA Press.
Bartels, D. & Pizarro, D.A. (2011). The mismeasure of morals: Antisocial personality traits predict utilitarian responses to moral dilemmas. Cognition, 121, 154-161.
Helzer, E. & Pizarro, D.A. (2011). Dirty Liberals!: Reminders of cleanliness promote conservative political and moral attitudes. Psychological Science, 22, 517.
Pizarro, D. (January, 2011). Everyday Aphopenia. In J. Brockman (Ed.) This will make you smarter. New York: Harper Perennial.
2010
Pizarro, D.A. & Helzer, E. (2010). Freedom of the will and stubborn moralism. In Baumeister, R.F., A.R. Mele, and K. D. Vohs (Eds.) Free will and consciousness: How might they work? (pp. 101-120) Oxford University Press.
Liberman, P. & Pizarro, D. (October, 2010). All politics is olfactory. The New York Times (op-ed).
Pizarro, D.A. (March, 2010). We cannot be emotionless, but we are capable of rational debate. The Globe and Mail (op-ed).
2009
Uhlmann, E.L., Pizarro, D.A., Tannenbaum, D., & Ditto, P.H. (2009). The motivated use of moral principles. Judgment and Decision Making, 4, 479-491.
Inbar, Y., Pizarro, D.A., Knobe, J., & Bloom, P. (2009). Disgust sensitivity predicts intuitive disapproval of gays. Emotion, 9, 435-439.
Inbar, Y., Pizarro, D.A., & Bloom, P. (2009). Conservatives are more easily disgusted than liberals. Cognition and Emotion, 23, 714-725.
Ditto, P.H., Pizarro, D.A., & Tannenbaum, D. (2009). Motivated Moral Reasoning. In B. H. Ross (Series Ed.) & D. M. Bartels, C. W. Bauman, L. J. Skitka, & D. L. Medin (Eds.), Psychology of Learning and Motivation, Vol. 50: Moral Judgment and Decision Making. San Diego, CA: Academic Press.
Inbar, Y. & Pizarro, D.A. (2009). Grime and Punishment: How disgust influences moral, social, and legal judgments. The Jury Expert, 21, 11-23.
2008
Critcher, C. R., & Pizarro, D. A. (2008). Paying for someone else's mistake: The effect of bystander negligence on perpetrator blame. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 34, 1357-1370.
Pizarro, D.A. (2008). The Virtue in Being Morally Wrong. Scientific American Mind, February/March 2008.
Uhlmann, E.L., Pizarro, D.A., & Bloom, P. (2008). Varieties of Unconscious Social Cognition. Journal for the Theory of Social Behaviour, 38, 293-322.
2007
Rice, J. A., Levine, L. J., & Pizarro, D. A. (2007). "Just stop thinking about it": Effects of emotional disengagement on children's memory for educational material. Emotion, 7, 812-23.
Uhlmann, E.L., Brescoll, V.L., & Pizarro, D.A. (2007). The motivated use and neglect of base rates [Commentary]. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 30, 284-285.
Monin, B., Pizarro, D., & Beer, J. (2007). Deciding vs. reacting: Conceptions of moral judgment and the reason-affect debate. Review of General Psychology, 11, 99-111.
Pizarro, D.A., (2007). Entries contributed on Moral cognition; Moral emotion; Reciprocal altruism. In Baumeister, R. F., & Vohs, K. D. (Eds.). Encyclopedia of social psychology. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications.
Monin, B., Pizarro, D., & Beer, J. (2007). Emotion and reason in moral judgment: Different prototypes lead to different theories. In K.D. Vohs, R.F. Baumeister, & G. Loewenstein (Eds.), Do emotions help or hurt decision making? A hedgefoxian perspective. New York: Russell Sage.
Pizarro, D.A. (2007). Hodgepodge Morality. In J. Brockman (Ed.), What is your dangerous idea? New York: Harper Collins.
2006
Pizarro, D.A., Laney, C., Morris, E., & Loftus, E. (2006). Ripple effects in memory: Judgments of moral blame can distort memory for events. Memory and Cognition, 34, 550-555.
Ditto, P.H., Pizarro, D.A., Epstein, E.B., Jacobson, J.A., MacDonald, T.K. (2006). Motivational myopia: Visceral influences on risk taking behavior. Journal of Behavioral Decision-Making, 19, 99-113.
Levine, L. J. & Pizarro, D.A. (2006). Emotional valence, discrete emotions, and memory. In B. Uttl, N. Ohta, & A. L. Siegenthaler, (Eds.). Memory and Emotion: Interdisciplinary Perspectives. Blackwell Publishing.
Pizarro, D.A., Detweiler-Bedell, B., & Bloom, P. (2006). The Creativity of Everyday Moral Reasoning: Empathy, Disgust and Moral Persuasion. In J. C. Kaufman & J. Baer (Eds.), Creativity and Reason in Cognitive Development. Cambridge University Press.
Fernández-Berrocal, P., Alcaide, R., Extremera, N., & Pizarro, D. (2006). The role of emotional intelligence in anxiety and depression among adolescents. Individual Differences Research, 4, 16-27.
Bloom, P. & Pizarro, D.A. (2006). Homer’s Soul. In A. Brown & C. Logan (Eds.), The Psychology of The Simpsons. Benbella Books.
2005
Ditto, P.H., Hawkins, N., & Pizarro, D.A. (2005). Imagining the End of Life: On the Psychology of Advance Medical Decision Making. Motivation and Emotion, 29, 475-496.
Pizarro, D.A., & Uhlmann, E. (2005). Do normative standards advance our understanding of moral judgment? [commentary] Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 28, 558-559.
Rivers, S.E., Pizarro, D.A., Schneider, T.R., Pizarro, J., & Salovey. P. (2005). Message framing and pap test utilization among women attending a community health clinic. Journal of Health Psychology, 10, 65-77.
2004 and before
Levine, L. J. & Pizarro, D. A. (2004). Emotion and Memory Research: A Grumpy Overview. Social Cognition, 22, 530-544.
Pizarro, D.A., Uhlmann, E., & Bloom, P. (2003). Causal deviance and the attribution of moral responsibility. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 39, 653-660.
Pizarro, D.A., Uhlmann, E., & Salovey, P. (2003). Asymmetry in judgments of moral blame and praise: The role of perceived metadesires. Psychological Science, 14, 267-272.
Pizarro, D.A., & Bloom, P. (2003). The intelligence of moral intuitions: Comment on Haidt (2001). Psychological Review, 110, 197-198.
Pizarro, D.A., & Salovey, P. (2003). Religious systems as “Emotionally Intelligent” organizations. [commentary] Psychological Inquiry, 13, 220-222.
Salovey, P., & Pizarro, D.A., (2003). The value of emotional intelligence. In R. J. Sternberg, J. Lautrey, & T. Lubart (Eds.), Models of Intelligence: International Perspectives (pp.263-278). Washington, DC: American Psychological Association.
Pizarro, D.A., & Salovey, P. (2003). Emotional Genius. The Duke Gifted Letter, 3, 4.
Pizarro, D.A., & Salovey, P. (2002). On being and becoming a good person: The role of emotional intelligence in moral development and behavior. In J. Aronson (Ed.), Improving academic achievement: Impact of psychological factors on education (pp. 247-266). San Diego: Academic Press.
Pizarro, D. (2000). Nothing more than feelings?: The role of emotions in moral judgment. Journal for the Theory of Social Behaviour, 30, 355-375.