Joshua D. Greene is an experimental psychologist, neuroscientist, and a philosopher. In 2006 he joined the faculty of Harvard University’s Department of Psychology as an assistant professor. His primary research interest is the psychological and neuroscientific study of morality, focusing on the interplay between emotional and “cognitive” processes in moral decision-making. His broader interests cluster around the intersection of philosophy, psychology and neuroscience. He is currently writing a book about the philosophical implications of our emerging scientific understanding of morality.

Courses Taught:

Introduction to Social Psychology – Harvard University

Social Neuroscience – Harvard University

Moral Cognition – Harvard University

Free Will, Responsibility, and Law – Harvard University

Research Interests: Moral judgment and decision-making using behavioral experiments, functional neuroimaging (fMRI), and other neuroscientific methods.

Select Publications:

Greene, J.D., Paxton, J.M. (2009) Patterns of neural activity associated with honest and dishonest moral decisions. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA, Vol. 106, No. 30, 12506-12511.

Paharia, N., Kassam, K.S., Greene, J.D., Bazerman, M.H. (2009) Dirty work, clean hands: the moral psychology of indirect agency. Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, 109, 134-141.

Greene, J.D. (2009) Fruit flies of the moral mind, in What’s Next: Dispatches from the Future of Science, M. Brockman, Ed., Vintage, New York.

Greene, J.D., Cushman, F.A., Stewart. L.E., Lowenberg, K., Nystrom, L.E., and Cohen, J.D. (2009) Pushing moral buttons: The interaction between personal force and intention in moral judgment. Cognition, Vol. 111 (3), 364-371.

Greene, J.D. (2009) Dual-process morality and the personal/impersonal distinction: A reply to McGuire, Langdon, Coltheart, and Mackenzie. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, Vol. 45 (3), 581-584.

Link to website:

http://www.wjh.harvard.edu/~jgreene/ ^[1]