Fiery Cushman

15.2k total citations · 3 hit papers
102 papers, 7.6k citations indexed

About

Fiery Cushman is a scholar working on Cognitive Neuroscience, Social Psychology and Sociology and Political Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Fiery Cushman has authored 102 papers receiving a total of 7.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 70 papers in Cognitive Neuroscience, 42 papers in Social Psychology and 32 papers in Sociology and Political Science. Recurrent topics in Fiery Cushman's work include Psychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment (61 papers), Emotions and Moral Behavior (26 papers) and Experimental Behavioral Economics Studies (18 papers). Fiery Cushman is often cited by papers focused on Psychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment (61 papers), Emotions and Moral Behavior (26 papers) and Experimental Behavioral Economics Studies (18 papers). Fiery Cushman collaborates with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and Germany. Fiery Cushman's co-authors include Liane Young, Michael A. Hauser, Eric Schwitzgebel, Daniel Tranel, Ralph Adolphs, Michael Koenigs, António R. Damásio, Joshua D. Greene, Rebecca Saxe and Samuel J. Gershman and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Journal of Personality and Social Psychology.

In The Last Decade

Fiery Cushman

99 papers receiving 7.2k citations

Hit Papers

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Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

Damage to the prefrontal cortex increases utilitarian moral judgements

2007 1.0k citations Michael Koenigs, Liane Young et al. Nature profile →
The Role of Conscious Reasoning and Intuition in Moral Judgment

2006 731 citations Fiery Cushman, Liane Young et al. profile →
Crime and punishment: Distinguishing the roles of causal and intentional analyses in moral judgment

2008 604 citations Fiery Cushman Cognition profile →

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#	Work	Indexed citations
1	People reward others based on their willingness to exert effort 2024 ·Journal of Experimental Social Psychology ·(unknown), (unknown), Fiery Cushman, Natalia Vélez, Samuel J. Gershman	2
2	Teachers recruit mentalizing regions to represent learners’ beliefs 2023 ·Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences ·Natalia Vélez, (unknown), (unknown), Fiery Cushman, Samuel J. Gershman	10
3	Representational exchange in social learning: Blurring the lines between the ritual and instrumental 2022 ·Behavioral and Brain Sciences ·Natalia Vélez, Charley M. Wu, Fiery Cushman	2
4	The role of causal structure in implicit evaluation 2022 ·Cognition ·Benedek Kurdi, Adam Morris, Fiery Cushman	2
5	Diffusion of punishment in collective norm violations 2022 ·Scientific Reports ·(unknown), (unknown), Bahador Bahrami, Ophélia Deroy, Fiery Cushman	4
6	Knowledge before belief 2020 ·Behavioral and Brain Sciences ·Jonathan Phillips, Wesley Buckwalter, Fiery Cushman, Ori Friedman, Alia Martin, John Turri, Laurie R. Santos, Joshua Knobe	54
7	Downloading Culture.zip: Social learning by program induction. 2020 ·Cognitive Science ·Max Kleiman‐Weiner, (unknown), Bill Thompson, (unknown), Tom Griffiths, Samuel J. Gershman, Fiery Cushman	2
8	Hard choices: Children's understanding of the cost of action selection. 2019 ·Cognitive Science ·Shari Liu, Fiery Cushman, Samuel J. Gershman, Wouter Kool, Elizabeth S. Spelke	2
9	Downloading Culture.zip: Social learning by program induction with execution traces. 2019 ·Cognitive Science ·Max Kleiman‐Weiner, (unknown), Samuel J. Gershman, Fiery Cushman	1
10	The Cognitive Mechanisms of Contractualist Moral Decision-Making. 2018 ·Cognitive Science ·Sydney Levine, Max Kleiman‐Weiner, N Chater, Fiery Cushman, Josh Tenenbaum	2
11	Effectively Learning from Pedagogical Demonstrations. 2018 ·Cognitive Science ·Mark K. Ho, Michael L. Littman, Fiery Cushman, Joseph L. Austerweil	1
12	On the instrumental value of hypothetical and counterfactual thought. 2018 ·Cognitive Science ·Thomas Icard, Fiery Cushman, Joshua Knobe	3
13	Act Versus Impact: Conservatives and Liberals Exhibit Different Structural Emphases in Moral Judgment 2017 ·Ratio ·Ivar R. Hannikainen, Ryan M. Miller, Fiery Cushman	23
14	Showing versus doing: Teaching by demonstration 2016 ·Neural Information Processing Systems ·Mark K. Ho, Michael L. Littman, James MacGlashan, Fiery Cushman, Joseph L. Austerweil	29
15	Multiple Systems for Modal Cognition. 2016 ·Cognitive Science ·Jonathan Phillips, Fiery Cushman	2
16	Habitual control of goal selection in humans 2015 ·Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences ·Fiery Cushman, Adam Morris	105
17	Teaching with Rewards and Punishments: Reinforcement or Communication? 2015 ·Cognitive Science ·Mark K. Ho, Michael L. Littman, Fiery Cushman, Joseph L. Austerweil	15
18	Philosophers’ biased judgments persist despite training, expertise and reflection 2015 ·Cognition ·Eric Schwitzgebel, Fiery Cushman	119
19	Damage to the prefrontal cortex increases utilitarian moral judgements breakdown → 2007 ·Nature ·Michael Koenigs, Liane Young, Ralph Adolphs, Daniel Tranel, Fiery Cushman, Michael A. Hauser, António R. Damásio	1003
20	Does emotion mediate the effect of an action's moral status on its intentional status? Neuropsychological evidence 2006 ·Breast Cancer Research and Treatment ·Liane Young, Fiery Cushman, Ralph Adolphs, Daniel Tranel, Michael A. Hauser	24

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