Articles in preparation

Young, L., Bechara, A., Tranel, D., Damasio, H., Hauser, M., Damasio, A. (submitted) Damage to prefrontal cortex impairs judgment of harmful intent.

Young, L., Camprodon, J., Hauser, M., Pascual-Leone, A., Saxe, R. (submitted). TMS to temporo-parietal junction reduces the role of beliefs in moral judgments.

Young, L. Feder, D., Saxe, R. (submitted). What gets the attention of the temporo-parietal junction? An FMRI investigation of attention and theory of mind.

Young, L., Scholz, J., Saxe, R. (submitted) A role for theory of mind brain regions in moral blame and praise: An fMRI investigation.

Moran, J.*, Young, L.*, Saxe, R., Lee, S., O’Young, D., Gabrieli, J. (submitted). Moral Judgment in High-functioning Autism. *Equal contributors

Miller, M., Sinnott-Armstrong, W., Young, L., King, D., Paggi, A., Fabri, M., Polonara, G., Gazzaniga, M. (submitted) Abnormal Moral Reasoning in Split-Brain Patients.

Cushman, F., Young, L., Hauser, M. (in prep) Deriving moral principles from non-moral representations: A study of three distinctions.

Research Articles

Young, L., Nichols, S., Saxe, R. (in press). Investigating the neural and cognitive basis of moral luck: It’s not what you do but what you know. Review of Philosophy and Psychology.

Young, L., Saxe, R. (2009). Innocent Intentions: A correlation between forgiveness for accidental harm and neural activity. Neuropsychologia, 47, 2065-2072.

Young, L., Saxe, R. (2009). An fMRI Investigation of Spontaneous Mental State Inference for Moral Judgment . Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 21, 1396-1405.

Glen, A., Raine, A., Schug,, R. Young, L., Hauser, M. (2009). Do psychopathic patients use their DLPFC when making decisions in moral dilemmas? Molecular Psychiatry, 14, 908-911.

Young, L., Saxe, R. (2008). The neural basis of belief encoding and integration in moral judgment. NeuroImage, 40, 1912-1920.

Kliemann, D., Young, L., Scholz, J., Saxe, R. (2008). The influence of prior record on moral judgment. Neuropsychologia, 46, 2949-2957.

Young, L., Cushman, F., Hauser, M., Saxe, R. (2007). The neural basis of the interaction between theory of mind and moral judgment. PNAS, 104(20), 8235-8240.

Koenigs, M.*, Young, L.*, Adolphs, R., Tranel, D., Cushman, F., Hauser, M., Damasio, A. (2007). Damage to the prefrontal cortex increases utilitarian moral judgments. Nature, 446, 908-911. *Equal contributors

Hauser, M., Cushman, F., Young, L., Jin, R., Mikhail, J. (2007). A dissociation between moral judgment and justification. Mind and Language, 22(1), 1-21.

Cushman, F., Young, L., Hauser, M. (2006). The role of conscious reasoning and intuitions in moral judgment: Testing three principles of harm. Psychological Science, 17(12), 1082-1089.

Young, L., Cushman, F., Adolphs, R., Tranel D., and Hauser, M. (2006). Does emotion mediate the relationship between an action's moral status and its intentional status? Neuropsychological evidence. Journal of Cognition and Culture, 6(1-2), 265-278.

Commentary & Review

Young, L. (in press). Moral Thinking. In D. Reisberg (ed.), The Oxford Handbook of Cognitive Psychology. Oxford University Press.

Young, L., Saxe R. (in press). It’s not just what you do, but what’s on your mind: A review of Kwame Anthony Appiahs’ “Experiments in Ethics”. Neuroethics.

Sinnott-Armstrong, W., Young, L., Cushman, F. (in press). Moral Intuitions as Heuristics. In J. Doris, G. Harman, S. Nichols, J. Prinz, W. Sinnott-Armstrong, S. Stich. (eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Moral Psychology. Oxford University Press.

Cushman, F., Young, L., Greene, J. (in press). Our multi-system moral psychology: Towards a consensus view. In J. Doris, G. Harman, S. Nichols, J. Prinz, W. Sinnott-Armstrong, S. Stich. (eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Moral Psychology. Oxford University Press.

Cushman, F., Young, L. (2009) The Psychology of Dilemmas and the Philosophy of Morality. Ethical Theory and Moral Practice, 12(1), 9-24.

Koenigs, M., Young, L., Adolphs, R., Tranel, D., Cushman, F., Hauser, M., Damasio, A. (2008). Reply to G. Kahane & N. Shackel. Nature, 452, E5-E6.

Young, L., Koenigs, M. (2007). Investigating emotion in moral cognition: a review of evidence from functional neuroimaging and neuropsychology. British Medical Bulletin, 84, 67-79.

Hauser, M., Young, L., Cushman, F. (2007). Reviving Rawls’ Linguistic Analogy. In W. Sinnott-Armstrong (ed.), The Cognitive Science of Morality: Intuition and Diversity. Oxford University Press.

Hauser, M., Young, L., Cushman, F. (2007). On Misreading the Linguistic Analogy: Response to Jesse Prinz and Ron Mallon. In W. Sinnott-Armstrong (ed.), The Cognitive Science of Morality: Intuition and Diversity. Oxford University Press.

Cushman, F., Young, L., Hauser, M. (2006). The psychology of Justice: A commentary on Natural Justice by Ken Binmore. Analyse & Kritik, 28, 95-98.