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Beyond Point-and-Shoot Morality: Why Cognitive (Neuro)Science Matters for Ethics by Greene, Joshua D.

“…In this article I explain why cognitive science (including some neuroscience) matters for normative ethics. First, I describe the dual-process theory of moral…”
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The rise of moral cognition by Greene, Joshua D.

“…•Moral cognition is a diverse field that has grown very rapidly in recent years.•Morality appears to have no distinctive cognitive mechanisms of its…”
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The rat-a-gorical imperative: Moral intuition and the limits of affective learning by Greene, Joshua D.

“…•A computational perspective on learning helps assess the reliability of moral intuition.•Acquiring good moral intuitions requires representative data and…”
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Veil-of-ignorance reasoning favors the greater good by Huang, Karen, Greene, Joshua D., Bazerman, Max

“…The “veil of ignorance” is a moral reasoning device designed to promote impartial decision making by denying decision makers access to potentially biasing…”
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Integrative moral judgment: dissociating the roles of the amygdala and ventromedial prefrontal cortex by Shenhav, Amitai, Greene, Joshua D

“…A decade's research highlights a critical dissociation between automatic and controlled influences on moral judgment, which is subserved by distinct neural…”
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The dual-process theory of moral judgment does not deny that people can make compromise judgments by Greene, Joshua D

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Why are VMPFC patients more utilitarian? A dual-process theory of moral judgment explains by Greene, Joshua D

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Concepts and Compositionality: In Search of the Brain's Language of Thought by Frankland, Steven M, Greene, Joshua D

“…Imagine Genghis Khan, Aretha Franklin, and the Cleveland Cavaliers performing an opera on Maui. This silly sentence makes a serious point: As humans, we can…”
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Sacrificial utilitarian judgments do reflect concern for the greater good: Clarification via process dissociation and the judgments of philosophers by Conway, Paul, Goldstein-Greenwood, Jacob, Polacek, David, Greene, Joshua D.

“…Researchers have used “sacrificial” trolley-type dilemmas (where harmful actions promote the greater good) to model competing influences on moral judgment:…”
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The lens space realization problem by Greene, Joshua Evan

“…We determine the lens spaces that arise by integer Dehn surgery along a knot in the three-sphere. Specifically, if surgery along a knot produces a lens space,…”
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Spontaneous giving and calculated greed by Rand, David G., Greene, Joshua D., Nowak, Martin A.

“…Economic games are used to investigate the cognitive mechanisms underlying cooperative behaviour, and show that intuition supports cooperation in social…”
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You See, the Ends Don't Justify the Means: Visual Imagery and Moral Judgment by Amit, Elinor, Greene, Joshua D.

“…We conducted three experiments indicating that characteristically deontological judgments—here, disapproving of sacrificing one person for the greater good of…”
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Divine Intuition: Cognitive Style Influences Belief in God by Shenhav, Amitai, Rand, David G., Greene, Joshua D.

“…Some have argued that belief in God is intuitive, a natural (by-)product of the human mind given its cognitive structure and social context. If this is true,…”
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Moral Judgments Recruit Domain-General Valuation Mechanisms to Integrate Representations of Probability and Magnitude by Shenhav, Amitai, Greene, Joshua D.

“…Many important moral decisions, particularly at the policy level, require the evaluation of choices involving outcomes of variable magnitude and probability…”
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Overlooked Evidence and a Misunderstanding of What Trolley Dilemmas Do Best: Commentary on Bostyn, Sevenhant, and Roets (2018) by Plunkett, Dillon, Greene, Joshua D.

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Dual-process morality and the personal/impersonal distinction: A reply to McGuire, Langdon, Coltheart, and Mackenzie by Greene, Joshua D.

“…A substantial body of research supports a dual-process theory of moral judgment, according to which characteristically deontological judgments are driven by…”
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Social heuristics shape intuitive cooperation by Rand, David G., Peysakhovich, Alexander, Kraft-Todd, Gordon T., Newman, George E., Wurzbacher, Owen, Nowak, Martin A., Greene, Joshua D.

“…Cooperation is central to human societies. Yet relatively little is known about the cognitive underpinnings of cooperative decision making. Does cooperation…”
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An architecture for encoding sentence meaning in left mid-superior temporal cortex by Frankland, Steven M., Greene, Joshua D.

“…Human brains flexibly combine the meanings of words to compose structured thoughts. For example, by combining the meanings of “bite,” “dog,” and “man,” we can…”
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Reflection and Reasoning in Moral Judgment by Paxton, Joseph M., Ungar, Leo, Greene, Joshua D.

“…While there is much evidence for the influence of automatic emotional responses on moral judgment, the roles of reflection and reasoning remain uncertain. In…”
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Free Will and Punishment: A Mechanistic View of Human Nature Reduces Retribution by Shariff, Azim F., Greene, Joshua D., Karremans, Johan C., Luguri, Jamie B., Clark, Cory J., Schooler, Jonathan W., Baumeister, Roy F., Vohs, Kathleen D.

“…If free-will beliefs support attributions of moral responsibility, then reducing these beliefs should make people less retributive in their attitudes about…”
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