Dr. Liane Young
Associate ProfessorBoston College, USA
Highest Degree
Ph.D. in Physiology from Boston University, USA
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Selected Publications
- 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.
- 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.
CrossRef | Direct Link | - 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.
CrossRef | Direct Link | - 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.
CrossRef | Direct Link | - 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.
CrossRef | Direct Link | - 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.
- 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.
CrossRef | Direct Link | - 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.
CrossRef | Direct Link | - Dungan, J., A. Waytz and L. Young, 2015. The psychology of whistleblowing. Curr. Opin. Psychol., 6: 129-133.
CrossRef | Direct Link | - 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.
- 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.
CrossRef | Direct Link | - Chakroff, A. and L. Young, 2015. How the mind matters for morality. AJOB Neurosci., 6: 43-48.
CrossRef | Direct Link | - Chakroff, A. and L. Young, 2015. Harmful situations, impure people: An attribution asymmetry across moral domains. Cognition, 136: 30-37.
CrossRef | Direct Link | - 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.
CrossRef | Direct Link | - Waytz, A. and L. Young, 2014. Two motivations for two dimensions of mind. J. Exp. Social Psychol., 55: 278-283.
CrossRef | Direct Link | - 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.
- Rottman, J., D. Kelemen and L. Young, 2014. Tainting the soul: Purity concerns predict moral judgments of suicide. Cognition, 130: 217-226.
CrossRef | Direct Link | - 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.
CrossRef | Direct Link | - Niemi, L. and L. Young, 2014. Blaming the victim in the case of rape. Psychol. Inquiry, 25: 230-233.
CrossRef | Direct Link | - Heiphetz, L. and L. Young, 2014. A social cognitive developmental perspective on moral judgment. Behaviour, 151: 315-335.
CrossRef | Direct Link | - Dungan, J., A. Waytz and L. Young, 2014. Corruption in the context of moral trade-offs. J. Interdisciplin. Econ., 26: 97-118.
CrossRef | Direct Link | - 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.
- 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.
CrossRef | Direct Link | - 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.
- 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.
- 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.
CrossRef | Direct Link | - Waytz, A., J. Dungan and L. Young, 2013. The Whistleblower’s dilemma and the fairness-loyalty tradeoff. J. Exp. Social Psychol., 49: 1027-1033.
CrossRef | Direct Link | - 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.
CrossRef | Direct Link | - 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.
CrossRef | Direct Link | - 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.
CrossRef | Direct Link | - Gleichgerrcht, E. and L. Young, 2013. Low levels of empathic concern predict utilitarian moral judgment. PLoS One, Vol. 8. 10.1371/journal.pone.0060418.
CrossRef | Direct Link | - 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.
CrossRef | Direct Link | - 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.
CrossRef | Direct Link | - Young, L., M. Koenigs, M. Kruepke and J. Newman, 2012. Psychopathy increases perceived moral permissibility of accidents. J. Abnormal Psychol., 121: 659-667.
- 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.
CrossRef | Direct Link | - Young, L. and J. Dungan, 2012. Where in the brain is morality? Everywhere and maybe nowhere. Social Neurosci., 7: 1-10.
CrossRef | Direct Link | - Waytz, A. and L. Young, 2012. The group-member mind trade-off: Attributing mind to groups versus group members. Psychol. Sci., 23: 77-85.
CrossRef | Direct Link | - Gray, K., L. Young and A. Waytz, 2012. Mind perception is the essence of morality. Psychol. Inquiry, 23: 101-124.
CrossRef | Direct Link | - Gray, K., A. Waytz and L. Young, 2012. The moral dyad: A fundamental template unifying moral judgment. Psychol. Inquiry, 23: 206-215.
CrossRef | Direct Link | - 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.
- 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.
- 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.
CrossRef | Direct Link | - 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.
- Young, L. and R. Saxe, 2011. When ignorance is no excuse: Different roles for intent across moral domains. Cognition, 120: 202-214.
CrossRef | Direct Link | - Young, L. and R. Saxe, 2011. Moral universals and individual differences. Emotion Rev., 3: 323-324.
CrossRef | Direct Link | - Young, L. and J. Phillips, 2011. The paradox of moral focus. Cognition, 119: 166-178.
CrossRef | Direct Link | - 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.
CrossRef | Direct Link | - Cushman, F. and L. Young, 2011. Patterns of moral judgment derive from nonmoral psychological representations. Cognitive Sci., 35: 1052-1075.
CrossRef | Direct Link | - 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.
CrossRef | Direct Link | - 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.
CrossRef | Direct Link | - 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.
CrossRef | Direct Link | - 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.
CrossRef | Direct Link | - 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.
CrossRef | Direct Link | - 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.
- 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.
Direct Link | - Dungan, J. and L. Young, 2010. Multiple moralities: Tensions and tradeoffs in moral psychology and the law. Thurgood Marshall Law Rev., 36: 177-195.
- 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.
- Young, L. and R. Saxe, 2009. Innocent intentions: A correlation between forgiveness for accidental harm and neural activity. Neuropsychologia, 47: 2065-2072.
CrossRef | Direct Link | - Young, L. and R. Saxe, 2009. An FMRI investigation of spontaneous mental state inference for moral judgment. J. Cognit. Neurosci., 21: 1396-1405.
Direct Link | - 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.
Direct Link | - Cushman, F. and L. Young, 2009. The psychology of dilemmas and the philosophy of morality. Ethical Theory Moral Pract., 12: 9-24.
CrossRef | Direct Link | - Young, L. and R. Saxe, 2008. The neural basis of belief encoding and integration in moral judgment. Neuroimage, 40: 1912-1920.
CrossRef | Direct Link | - Kliemann, D., L. Young, J. Scholz and R. Saxe, 2008. The influence of prior record on moral judgment. Neuropsychologia, 46: 2949-2957.
CrossRef | Direct Link | - 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.
- 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.
- 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.
CrossRef | Direct Link | - 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.
CrossRef | Direct Link | - 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.
CrossRef | Direct Link | - 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.
CrossRef | Direct Link | - 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.
Direct Link | - 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.
CrossRef | Direct Link | - 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.