Joshua D. Greene

21.9k total citations · 7 hit papers
71 papers, 12.6k citations indexed

About

Joshua D. Greene is a scholar working on Cognitive Neuroscience, Sociology and Political Science and Social Psychology. According to data from OpenAlex, Joshua D. Greene has authored 71 papers receiving a total of 12.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 49 papers in Cognitive Neuroscience, 20 papers in Sociology and Political Science and 19 papers in Social Psychology. Recurrent topics in Joshua D. Greene's work include Psychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment (45 papers), Emotions and Moral Behavior (14 papers) and Experimental Behavioral Economics Studies (14 papers). Joshua D. Greene is often cited by papers focused on Psychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment (45 papers), Emotions and Moral Behavior (14 papers) and Experimental Behavioral Economics Studies (14 papers). Joshua D. Greene collaborates with scholars based in United States, Israel and United Kingdom. Joshua D. Greene's co-authors include Jonathan D. Cohen, Leigh E. Nystrom, John M. Darley, Jonathan Haidt, R. Brian Sommerville, David G. Rand, Martin A. Nowak, Andrew D. Engell, Amitai Shenhav and Sylvia A. Morelli and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Joshua D. Greene

69 papers receiving 11.8k citations

Hit Papers

5 papers align trajectories

What are hit papers?

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.

An fMRI Investigation of Emotional Engagement in Moral Judgment

2001 2.8k citations Joshua D. Greene, Leigh E. Nystrom et al. profile →
The Neural Bases of Cognitive Conflict and Control in Moral Judgment

2004 1.6k citations Joshua D. Greene, Leigh E. Nystrom et al. Neuron profile →
How (and where) does moral judgment work?

2002 1.2k citations Joshua D. Greene et al. profile →
Spontaneous giving and calculated greed

2012 872 citations David G. Rand, Joshua D. Greene et al. profile →
Cognitive load selectively interferes with utilitarian moral judgment

2008 777 citations Joshua D. Greene, Leigh E. Nystrom et al. Cognition profile →
Social heuristics shape intuitive cooperation

2014 530 citations David G. Rand, Alexander Peysakhovich et al. profile →
Divine intuition: Cognitive style influences belief in God.

2011 379 citations David G. Rand, Joshua D. Greene et al. profile →

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Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Joshua D. Greene United States	37	9.4k	5.5k	3.9k	2.4k	1.8k	71	12.6k
Fiery Cushman United States	39	6.0k 0.6×	3.4k 0.6×	2.4k 0.6×	1.5k 0.6×	827 0.5×	102	7.6k
Liane Young United States	47	7.2k 0.8×	4.7k 0.9×	3.0k 0.8×	1.4k 0.6×	618 0.3×	163	9.1k
Kurt Gray United States	44	4.8k 0.5×	4.7k 0.8×	3.6k 0.9×	730 0.3×	1.4k 0.8×	136	9.5k
Adam Waytz United States	38	3.5k 0.4×	4.9k 0.9×	3.7k 0.9×	687 0.3×	1.2k 0.7×	75	10.1k
Bertram F. Malle United States	44	3.5k 0.4×	4.6k 0.8×	4.7k 1.2×	437 0.2×	1.1k 0.6×	131	9.8k
Joshua Knobe United States	47	5.1k 0.5×	2.8k 0.5×	2.7k 0.7×	659 0.3×	477 0.3×	134	7.7k
Bertram Gawronski United States	58	4.2k 0.4×	6.3k 1.2×	8.0k 2.1×	600 0.2×	406 0.2×	178	13.6k
Jesse Graham United States	36	5.0k 0.5×	5.0k 0.9×	6.7k 1.7×	1.2k 0.5×	573 0.3×	84	11.2k
Paul Bloom United States	59	5.1k 0.5×	4.4k 0.8×	3.5k 0.9×	298 0.1×	557 0.3×	160	14.1k
Alan G. Sanfey Netherlands	42	6.5k 0.7×	2.9k 0.5×	2.0k 0.5×	191 0.1×	1.8k 1.0×	116	10.7k

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20 of 20 papers shown

Greene, Joshua D., et al.. (2024). The Language of Creativity: Evidence from Humans and Large Language Models. The Journal of Creative Behavior. 58(1). 128–136. 22 indexed citations

Lillehammer, Hallvard, Hallvard Lillehammer, Hallvard Lillehammer, et al.. (2023). The Trolley Problem. Cambridge University Press eBooks. 4 indexed citations

Caviola, Lucius & Joshua D. Greene. (2023). Boosting the impact of charitable giving with donation bundling and micromatching. Science Advances. 9(3). eade7987–eade7987. 2 indexed citations

Greene, Joshua D.. (2022). La broma secreta del alma de Kant. 183–229. 1 indexed citations

Huang, Karen, et al.. (2021). Veil-of-ignorance reasoning mitigates self-serving bias in resource allocation during the COVID-19 crisis. Judgment and Decision Making. 16(1). 1–19. 11 indexed citations

Bazerman, Max H., et al.. (2020). How Should We Allocate Scarce Medical Resources. 1 indexed citations

Abe, Nobuhito, Joshua D. Greene, & Kent A. Kiehl. (2018). Reduced engagement of the anterior cingulate cortex in the dishonest decision-making of incarcerated psychopaths. Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience. 13(8). 797–807. 21 indexed citations

Conway, Paul, et al.. (2018). Sacrificial utilitarian judgments do reflect concern for the greater good: Clarification via process dissociation and the judgments of philosophers. Cognition. 179. 241–265. 124 indexed citations

Frankland, Steven & Joshua D. Greene. (2015). An architecture for encoding sentence meaning in left mid-superior temporal cortex. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 112(37). 11732–11737. 68 indexed citations

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Rand, David G., Alexander Peysakhovich, Gordon Kraft‐Todd, et al.. (2013). Intuitive Cooperation and the Social Heuristics Hypothesis: Evidence from 15 Time Constraint Studies. SSRN Electronic Journal. 38 indexed citations

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Amit, Elinor & Joshua D. Greene. (2012). You See, the Ends Don’t Justify the Means. Psychological Science. 23(8). 861–868. 143 indexed citations

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Baron, Jonathan, Ilana Ritov, & Joshua D. Greene. (2011). The Duty to Support Nationalistic Policies. Journal of Behavioral Decision Making. 26(2). 128–138. 23 indexed citations

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Cushman, Fiery & Joshua D. Greene. (2011). Finding faults: How moral dilemmas illuminate cognitive structure. Social Neuroscience. 7(3). 269–279. 111 indexed citations

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Ungar, Leo, et al.. (2011). Reflection and Reasoning in Moral Judgment. Cognitive Science. 36(1). 163–177. 276 indexed citations

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Greene, Joshua D. & Jonathan D. Cohen. (2011). For The Law, Neuroscience Changes Nothing And Everything. Oxford University Press eBooks. 28 indexed citations

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Cushman, Fiery, et al.. (2011). Judgment before principle: engagement of the frontoparietal control network in condemning harms of omission. Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience. 7(8). 888–895. 36 indexed citations

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Greene, Joshua D., et al.. (2010). Moral Reasoning: Hints and Allegations. Topics in Cognitive Science. 2(3). 511–527. 123 indexed citations

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Greene, Joshua D., et al.. (2009). Patterns of neural activity associated with honest and dishonest moral decisions. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 106(30). 12506–12511. 280 indexed citations

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Bazerman, Max H. & Joshua D. Greene. (2009). In Favor of Clear Thinking: Incorporating Moral Rules into a Wise Cost-Benefit Analysis. SSRN Electronic Journal. 5 indexed citations

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Greene, Joshua D., Leigh E. Nystrom, Andrew D. Engell, John M. Darley, & Jonathan D. Cohen. (2004). The Neural Bases of Cognitive Conflict and Control in Moral Judgment. Neuron. 44(2). 389–400. 1647 indexed citations breakdown →

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