Dr. Liane  Young
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Dr. Liane Young

Associate Professor
Boston College, USA


Highest Degree
Ph.D. in Physiology from Boston University, USA

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Area of Interest:

Biomedical Sciences
100%
Health and Biotechnology
62%
Physical Anthropology
90%
Muscular and Vascular Function
75%
Movement Therapies
55%

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Selected Publications

  1. Waytz, A. and L. Young, 2018. Morality for Us versus Them. In: Atlas of Moral Psychology, Gray, K. and J. Graham (Eds.). Chapter 19, Guilford Press, New York, USA., ISBN-13: 9781462532568, pp: 186-192.
  2. Heiphetz, L., N. Strohminger and L.L. Young, 2017. The role of moral beliefs, memories and preferences in representations of identity. Cognit. Sci., 41: 744-767.
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  3. Heiphetz, L., J.D. Lane, A. Waytz and L.L. Young, 2016. How children and adults represent God's mind. Cognit. Sci., 40: 121-144.
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  4. Chakroff, A., J. Dungan, J. Koster-Hale, A. Brown, R. Saxe and L. Young, 2016. When minds matter for moral judgment: Intent information is neurally encoded for harmful but not impure acts. Social Cognit. Affective Neurosci., 11: 476-484.
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  5. Rottman, J., D. Kelemen and L. Young, 2015. Hindering harm and preserving purity: How can moral psychology save the planet? Philos. Compass, 10: 34-144.
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  6. Rottman, J. and L. Young, 2015. Mechanisms of Moral Development. In: The Moral Brain: A Multidisciplinary Perspective, Decety, J. and T. Wheatley (Eds.). Chapter 8, MIT Press, Cambridge, MA., USA., ISBN-13: 9780262028714, pp: 123-142.
  7. Heiphetz, L., E.S. Spelke and L.L. Young, 2015. In the name of God: How children and adults judge agents who act for religious versus secular reasons. Cognition, 144: 134-149.
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  8. Gaesser, B., M. Horn and L. Young, 2015. When can imagining the self increase willingness to help others? Investigating whether the self-referential nature of episodic simulation fosters prosociality. Social Cognit., 33: 562-584.
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  9. Dungan, J., A. Waytz and L. Young, 2015. The psychology of whistleblowing. Curr. Opin. Psychol., 6: 129-133.
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  10. Dungan, J. and L. Young, 2015. Understanding the Adaptive Functions of Morality from a Cognitive Psychological Perspective. In: Emerging Trends in the Social and Behavioral Sciences: An Interdisciplinary, Searchable and Linkable Resource, Scott, R.A., M.C. Buchmann and S.M. Kosslyn (Eds.). John Wiley and Sons, New York, USA., ISBN-13: 9781118900772.
  11. Chakroff, A., K.A. Thomas, O.S. Haque and L. Young, 2015. An indecent proposal: The dual functions of indirect speech. Cognit. Sci., 39: 199-211.
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  12. Chakroff, A. and L. Young, 2015. How the mind matters for morality. AJOB Neurosci., 6: 43-48.
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  13. Chakroff, A. and L. Young, 2015. Harmful situations, impure people: An attribution asymmetry across moral domains. Cognition, 136: 30-37.
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  14. Waytz, A., L.L. Young and J. Ginges, 2014. Motive attribution asymmetry for love vs. hate drives intractable conflict. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA., 111: 15687-15692.
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  15. Waytz, A. and L. Young, 2014. Two motivations for two dimensions of mind. J. Exp. Social Psychol., 55: 278-283.
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  16. Theriault, J. and L. Young, 2014. Taking an “Intentional Stance” on Moral Psychology. In: Advances in Experimental Philosophy of Mind, Sytsma, J. (Ed.). Chapter 5, Bloomsbury Academic, London, UK., pp: 101-124.
  17. Rottman, J., D. Kelemen and L. Young, 2014. Tainting the soul: Purity concerns predict moral judgments of suicide. Cognition, 130: 217-226.
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  18. Rottman, J., D. Kelemen and L. Young, 2014. Purity matters more than harm in moral judgments of suicide: Response to Gray (2014). Cognition, 133: 332-334.
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  19. Niemi, L. and L. Young, 2014. Blaming the victim in the case of rape. Psychol. Inquiry, 25: 230-233.
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  20. Heiphetz, L. and L. Young, 2014. A social cognitive developmental perspective on moral judgment. Behaviour, 151: 315-335.
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  21. Dungan, J., A. Waytz and L. Young, 2014. Corruption in the context of moral trade-offs. J. Interdisciplin. Econ., 26: 97-118.
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  22. Chakroff, A. and L. Young, 2014. The Prosocial Brain: Perceiving others in Need and Acting on it. In: The Complexities of Raising Prosocial Children: An Examination of the Multidimensionality of Prosocial Behaviors, Padilla-Walker, L. and G. Carlo (Eds.). Oxford University Press, Oxford, UK.
  23. Carmona-Perera, M., L. Clark, L. Young, M. Perez-Garcia and A. Verdejo-Garcia, 2014. Impaired decoding of fear and disgust predicts utilitarian moral judgment in alcohol-dependent individuals. Alcoholism: Clin. Exp. Res., 38: 179-185.
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  24. Young, L. and L. Tsoi, 2013. When mental states matter, when they don’t and what that means for morality. Social Personality Psychol. Compass, 7: 585-604.
  25. Young, L. and A. Waytz, 2013. Morality. In: Understanding Other Minds: Perspectives from Developmental Social Neuroscience, Baron-Cohen, S., H. Tager-Flusberg and M. Lombardo (Eds.). 3rd Edn., Oxford University Press, UK., ISBN-13: 978-0199692972, pp: 93-103.
  26. Young, L. and A. Durwin, 2013. Moral realism as moral motivation: The impact of meta-ethics on everyday decision-making. J. Exp. Social Psychol., 49: 302-306.
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  27. Waytz, A., J. Dungan and L. Young, 2013. The Whistleblower’s dilemma and the fairness-loyalty tradeoff. J. Exp. Social Psychol., 49: 1027-1033.
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  28. Niemi, L. and L. Young, 2013. Caring across boundaries versus keeping boundaries intact: Links between moral values and interpersonal orientations. PLoS ONE, Vol. 8. 10.1371/journal.pone.0081605.
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  29. Koster-Hale, J., R. Saxe, J. Dungan and L.L. Young, 2013. Decoding moral judgments from neural representations of intentions. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci., 110: 5648-5653.
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  30. Hawley-Dolan, A. and L. Young, 2013. Whose mind matters more-the agent or the artist? An investigation of ethical and aesthetic evaluations. PLoS One, Vol. 8. 10.1371/journal.pone.0070759.
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  31. Gleichgerrcht, E. and L. Young, 2013. Low levels of empathic concern predict utilitarian moral judgment. PLoS One, Vol. 8. 10.1371/journal.pone.0060418.
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  32. Dufour, N., E. Redcay, L. Young, P. Mavros and J. Moran et al., 2013. Similar brain activation during false belief tasks in a large sample of adults with and without autism. PLoS One, Vol. 8. 10.1371/journal.pone.0075468.
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  33. Chakroff, A., J. Dungan and L. Young, 2013. Harming ourselves and defiling others: What determines a moral domain? PLoS One, Vol. 8. 10.1371/journal.pone.0074434.
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  34. Young, L., M. Koenigs, M. Kruepke and J. Newman, 2012. Psychopathy increases perceived moral permissibility of accidents. J. Abnormal Psychol., 121: 659-667.
  35. Young, L., A. Chakroff and J. Tom, 2012. Doing good leads to more good: The reinforcing power of a moral self-concept. Rev. Philosophy Psychol., 3: 325-334.
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  36. Young, L. and J. Dungan, 2012. Where in the brain is morality? Everywhere and maybe nowhere. Social Neurosci., 7: 1-10.
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  37. Waytz, A. and L. Young, 2012. The group-member mind trade-off: Attributing mind to groups versus group members. Psychol. Sci., 23: 77-85.
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  38. Gray, K., L. Young and A. Waytz, 2012. Mind perception is the essence of morality. Psychol. Inquiry, 23: 101-124.
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  39. Gray, K., A. Waytz and L. Young, 2012. The moral dyad: A fundamental template unifying moral judgment. Psychol. Inquiry, 23: 206-215.
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  40. Dungan, J. and L. Young, 2012. The Two-Type Model of Morality. In: Companion to Moral Anthropology, Fassin, D. (Ed.). Wiley-Blackwell, USA., ISBN: 9781118290583, pp: 578-594.
  41. Carmona-Perera, M., A. Verdejo-Garcia, L. Young, A. Molina-Fernandez and M. Garcia-Perez, 2012. Moral decision-making in polysubstance dependent individuals. Drug Alcohol Dependence, 3: 389-392.
  42. Young, L., J. Scholz and R. Saxe, 2011. Neural evidence for “Intuitive prosecution”: The use of mental state information for negative moral verdicts. Social Neurosci., 6: 302-315.
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  43. Young, L., 2011. How We Read People's Moral Minds. In: Future Science: Essays from the Cutting Edge, Brockman, M. (Ed.)., Oxford University Press, USA.
  44. Young, L. and R. Saxe, 2011. When ignorance is no excuse: Different roles for intent across moral domains. Cognition, 120: 202-214.
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  45. Young, L. and R. Saxe, 2011. Moral universals and individual differences. Emotion Rev., 3: 323-324.
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  46. Young, L. and J. Phillips, 2011. The paradox of moral focus. Cognition, 119: 166-178.
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  47. Moran, J.M., L.L. Young, R. Saxe, S.M. Lee, D. O'Young, P.L. Mavros and J.D. Gabrieli, 2011. Impaired theory of mind for moral judgment in high-functioning autism. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci., 108: 2688-2692.
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  48. Cushman, F. and L. Young, 2011. Patterns of moral judgment derive from nonmoral psychological representations. Cognitive Sci., 35: 1052-1075.
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  49. Young, L., S. Nichols and R. Saxe, 2010. Investigating the neural and cognitive basis of moral luck: It's not what you do but what you know. Rev. Philos. Psychol., 1: 333-349.
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  50. Young, L., J.A. Camprodon, M. Hauser, A. Pascual-Leone and R. Saxe, 2010. Disruption of the right temporoparietal junction with transcranial magnetic stimulation reduces the role of beliefs in moral judgments. Proc. Nat. Acad. Sci., 107: 6753-6758.
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  51. Young, L., D. Dodell-Feder and R. Saxe, 2010. What gets the attention of the temporo-parietal junction? An fMRI investigation of attention and theory of mind. Neuropsychologia, 48: 2658-2664.
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  52. Young, L., A. Bechara, D. Tranel, H. Damasio, M. Hauser and A. Damasio, 2010. Damage to ventromedial prefrontal cortex impairs judgment of harmful intent. Neuron, 65: 845-851.
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  53. Young, L. and R. Saxe, 2010. It's not just what you do, but what's on your mind: A review of Kwame Anthony Appiah's "experiments in ethics". Neuroethics, 3: 201-207.
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  54. Sinnott-Armstrong, W., L. Young and F. Cushman, 2010. Moral Intuitions as Heuristics. In: The Oxford Handbook of Moral Psychology, Doris, J., G. Harman, S. Nichols, J. Prinz, W. Sinnott-Armstrong and S. Stich (Eds.)., Oxford University Press, USA.
  55. Miller, M., W. Sinnott-Armstrong, L. Young, D. King, A. Paggi, M. Fabri, G. Polonara and M. Gazzaniga, 2010. Abnormal moral reasoning in complete and partial callosotomy patients. Neuropsychologia, 48: 2215-2220.
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  56. Dungan, J. and L. Young, 2010. Multiple moralities: Tensions and tradeoffs in moral psychology and the law. Thurgood Marshall Law Rev., 36: 177-195.
  57. Cushman, F., L. Young and J. Greene, 2010. Me, Myself and I: Exploring our Multi-System Morality. In: The Oxford Handbook of Moral Psychology, Doris, J., G. Harman, S. Nichols, J. Prinz, W. Sinnott-Armstrong and S. Stich (Eds.)., Oxford University Press, USA.
  58. Young, L. and R. Saxe, 2009. Innocent intentions: A correlation between forgiveness for accidental harm and neural activity. Neuropsychologia, 47: 2065-2072.
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  59. Young, L. and R. Saxe, 2009. An FMRI investigation of spontaneous mental state inference for moral judgment. J. Cognit. Neurosci., 21: 1396-1405.
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  60. Glenn, A.L., A. Raine, R.A. Schug, L. Young and M. Hauser, 2009. Increased DLPFC activity during moral decision-making in psychopathy. Mol. Psychiat., 14: 909-911.
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  61. Cushman, F. and L. Young, 2009. The psychology of dilemmas and the philosophy of morality. Ethical Theory Moral Pract., 12: 9-24.
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  62. Young, L. and R. Saxe, 2008. The neural basis of belief encoding and integration in moral judgment. Neuroimage, 40: 1912-1920.
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  63. Kliemann, D., L. Young, J. Scholz and R. Saxe, 2008. The influence of prior record on moral judgment. Neuropsychologia, 46: 2949-2957.
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  64. Hauser, M., L. Young and F. Cushman, 2008. Reviving Rawls' Linguistic Analogy. In: Moral Psychology and Biology, Sinnott-Armstrong, W. (Ed.)., Oxford University Press, USA.
  65. Hauser, M., L. Young and F. Cushman, 2008. On Misreading the Linguistic Analogy: Response to Jesse Prinz and Ron Mallon. In: Moral Psychology and Biology, Sinnott-Armstrong, W. (Ed.)., Oxford University Press, USA.
  66. Young, L., F. Cushman, M. Hauser and R. Saxe, 2007. The neural basis of the interaction between theory of mind and moral judgment. Proc. Nat. Acad. Sci., 104: 8235-8240.
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  67. Young, L. and M. Koenigs, 2007. Investigating emotion in moral cognition: a review of evidence from functional neuroimaging and neuropsychology. Br. Med. Bull., 84: 69-79.
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  68. Koenigs, M., L. Young, R. Adolphs, D. Tranel, F. Cushman, M. Hauser and A. Damasio, 2007. Damage to the prefrontal cortex increases utilitarian moral judgements. Nature, 446: 908-911.
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  69. Hauser, M., F. Cushman, L. Young, R.K.X. Jin and J. Mikhail, 2007. A dissociation between moral judgments and justifications. Mind Language, 22: 1-21.
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  70. Young, L., F. Cushman, R. Adolphs, D. Tranel and M. Hauser, 2006. Does emotion mediate the relationship between an action’s moral status and its intentional status? Neuropsychological evidence. J. Cognit. Cult., 6: 291-304.
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  71. Cushman, F., L. Young and M. Hauser, 2006. The role of conscious reasoning and intuition in moral judgment: Testing three principles of harm. Psychol. Sci., 17: 1082-1089.
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  72. Cushman, F., L. Young and M. Hauser, 2006. The psychology of justice: A commentary on natural justice by Ken Binmore. Anal. Kritik, 28: 95-98.