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Media Coverage
You can find my Publons (review history) page here.
Under Review:
- Kim, M.J*, Theriault, J.*, Hirschfeld-Kroen, J., Young, L. (under review). Reframing of moral dilemmas reveals an unexpected "positivity bias" in updating and attributions.
- * These authors contributed equally to this work.
- [Preprint]
- * These authors contributed equally to this work.
- Krause, P., Gustafson, D., Theriault, J., Young, L. (under review). Knowing is half the battle: How education decreases the fear of terrorism.
In Preparation:
- Theriault, J. E. (in prep). A constructivist and biologically tractable account of moral motivation. In M. Berg & E. C. Chang (Eds.), Motivation & Morality: A Biopsychosocial Approach. American Psychological Association.
- Theriault, J. E., Shaffer, C., Dickerson, B. C., Dienel, G. A., Hooker, J. M., Whitfield-Gabrieli, S., Barrett, L. F., & Quigley, K. S. (in prep). Aerobic glycolysis, predictive processing, and the speed-efficiency tradeoff.
Published Papers:
- Theriault, J. E., Young, L., Barrett, L.F. (2021). The sense of should: A biologically-based framework for modeling social pressure. Physics of Reviews, 36, 100–136. DOI: 10.1016/j.plrev.2020.01.004
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- Comments:
- Constant, A., Friston, K. J., & Ramstead, M. J. D. (2021). What kind of explanation is the constructing and coasting strategy? Physics of Life Reviews, 36, 80–82. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.plrev.2020.06.003
- Fotopoulou, A. (2021). Mentalising allostasis: The sense that I should eat. Physics of Life Reviews, 36, 20–23. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.plrev.2020.09.002
- Jebari, J. (2021). Beyond the metabolic costs of prediction error. Physics of Life Reviews, 36, 18–19. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.plrev.2020.11.001
- Rai, T. S. (2021). Toward a moral psychology untethered from long-term cooperation. Physics of Life Reviews, 36, 7–8. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.plrev.2020.12.002
- Tsakiris, M. (2021). How should the political animals of the 21st century feel? Physics of Life Reviews, 36, 77–79. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.plrev.2020.06.008
- Tummolini, L., & Pezzulo, G. (2021). The epistemic value of conformity. Physics of Life Reviews, 36, 74–76. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.plrev.2020.06.010
- Constant, A., Friston, K. J., & Ramstead, M. J. D. (2021). What kind of explanation is the constructing and coasting strategy? Physics of Life Reviews, 36, 80–82. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.plrev.2020.06.003
- Response:
- Theriault, J.E., Young, L., Feldman Barrett, L.F. (2021). Situating and extending the sense of should. Physics of Life Reviews, 37, 10–16. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.plrev.2021.01.001
- Theriault, J., Waytz, A., Heiphetz, L., & Young, L. (2020). Theory of Mind network activity is associated with metaethical judgment: An item analysis. Neuropsychologia, 143, 107475. DOI: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2020.107475
- Theriault, J.E., Coleman, M., Feldman, M.J., Fridman, J.D., Sennesh, E., Barrett, L.F.*, Quigley, K.S.* (2020). Beginning with biology: “Aspects of cognition” exist in the service of the brain’s overall function as a resource-regulator, Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 43, e26. DOI: 10.1017/S0140525X19001705
- * These authors jointly supervised this work.
- [Journal Copy] [Preprint]
- Castelhano, M.S., Fernandes, S. & Theriault, J. (2019). Examining the Hierarchical Nature of Scene Representations in Memory. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory & Cognition, 45(9), 1619–1633. DOI: 10.1037/xlm0000660
- Klein, R.A. Vianello, M., Hasselman, F., ... Theriault, J., ... Nosek, B. (2018). Many Labs 2: Investigating variation in replicability across samples and settings. Advances in Methods and Practices in Psychological Science, 1(4), 443–490. DOI: 10.1177/2515245918810225
- Theriault, J. & Young, L. (2018) Not as distinct as you think: Reasons to doubt that morality comprises a unified and objective conceptual category. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 41(e114). DOI: 10.1017/S0140525X18000195
- Theriault, J., Waytz, A., Heiphetz, L. & Young, L. (2017). Examining overlap in behavioral and neural representations of morals, facts, and preferences. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 146(11), 1586–1605. DOI: 10.1037/xge0000350
- Theriault, J., Krause, P. & Young, L. (2017). Know thy enemy: Education about terrorism improves social attitudes toward terrorists. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 146(3), 305–317. DOI:10.1037/xge0000261
- Theriault, J. & Young, L. (2014). Taking an “intentional stance” on moral psychology. In J. Sytsma (ed.), Advances in Experimental Philosophy of Mind. Continuum.
- Harkness, K.L., Theriault, J.E., Stewart, J. G. & Bagby, R. M. (2014). Acute and chronic stress exposure predicts one-year recurrence in adult outpatients with residual depression symptoms following response to treatment. Depression and Anxiety. 31(1), 1–8. DOI: 10.1002/da.22177
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- Harkness, K.L., Washburn, D.W., Theriault, J.E., Lee, L. & Sabbagh, M.A. (2011). Maternal history of depression is associated with enhanced theory of mind in depressed and non-depressed adult women. Psychiatric Research, 189(1), 91–96. DOI: 10.1016/j.psychres.2011.06.007
Media Coverage
- Are you a liberal? Are you sure? Reasons to be Cheerful, 09/15/2020
- The metaethics of moral claims, Parsing Science Podcast, 8/4/2020
- When it comes to defining ‘terrorism,’ there is no consensus, PBS Newshour, 2/26/2017
- Beyond good and evil: New science casts light on morality in the brain, WBUR, 8/7/2014