Research

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Niszczota, P. & Conway, P. (2023). Judgements of research co-created by generative AI: experimental evidence. Economics and Business Review, 9(2). https://doi.org/10.18559/ebr.2023.2.744

Conway, P. (2023). Interpersonal Moral Reasoning. In N. Ellemers, S. Pagliaro, & F. V. Nunspeet (Eds.), The Routledge international handbook of the psychology of morality. London: Routledge.

Schaerer, M., du Plessis, C., Nguyen, M. H. B., van Aert, R. C. M., Tiokhin, L., Lakens, D., Clemente, E. G., Pfeiffer, T., Dreber, A., Johannesson, M., Clark, C. J., Gender Audits Forecasting Collaboration & Uhlmann, E. L. (2023). On the trajectory of discrimination: a meta-analysis and forecasting survey capturing 44 years of field experiments on gender and hiring decisions. In: Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, 179, 26 p., https://doi.org/10.1016/j.obhdp.2023.104280

Weiss, A., Burgmer, P., Rom, S., & Conway, P. (in press). Taking the moral high ground: Deontological and absolutist moral dilemma judgments convey self-righteousness. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology.

Conway, P. (2023). Moral judgment. In D. E. Carlston, K. Johnson, & K. Hugenberg (Eds.), The Oxford handbook of social cognition (2nd edition). New York: Oxford University Press.

Kirova, A., Tang, Y., & Conway, P. (2023). Are people really less moral in their foreign language? proficiency and comprehension matter for the moral foreign language effect in Russian speakers. PlosONE, 18(7): e0287789. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0287789

Redmond, T., Conway, P., Bailey, S., Lee, P., & Lundrigan, S. (2023). How we can protect the protectors: Learning from police officers and staff involved in child sexual abuse and exploitation investigations. Frontiers in Psychology, 14, 1152446. doi:10.3389/fpsyg.2023.1152446

Daly, E., Lundrigan, S., Conway, P., Fjelldal, M., & Devendran, P. (2023). Building public resilience against self-generated indecent imagery of children through a public awareness campaign: What works and what next? [White paper]. The Policing Institute for the Eastern Region, United Kingdom Home Office.

van Leeuwen, F., Inbar, J., Peterson, M. B., Aarøe, L., Barclay, P., Barlow, F., K., Barra, M. K., Becker, D. V., Borovoi, L., Choi, J., Consedine, N. S., Conway, J. R., Conway, P., Adoric, V. C., Demirci, E., Fernández, A., M., Ferreira, D., C., S., Ishii, K., Jakšić, I., Ji, T., Jonaityte, I., Lewis, D. M. G., Li, N. P., McIntyre, J. C., Mukherjee, S., Park, J. H., Pawlowski, B., Pizarro, D., Prokop, P., Prodromitis, G., Rantala, M. J., Reynolds, L. M., Sandin, B., Sevi, B., Srinivasan, N., Tewari, S., Yong, J. C., Žeželj, I., & Tybur, J. M. (2023). Disgust sensitivity relates to attitudes toward gay men and lesbian women across 31 nations. Group Process and Intergroup Relations, 26(3), 629-651. https://doi.org/10.1177/13684302211067151

*Richardson, I., & Conway, P. (2022). Standing up or giving up? Moral foundations mediate political differences in evaluations of Black Lives Matter and other protests. European Journal of Social Psychology, 52, 553-569. https://doi.org/10.1002/ejsp.2837

Niszczota, P., Bialek, M, & Conway, P. (2022). Deontological and utilitarian responses to sacrificial dilemmas predict disapproval of sin stocks. Social Psychology, 52, 51-62. https://doi.org/10.1027/1864-9335/a000474

Maranges, H. M., Chen, S. K., & Conway, P. (2022). Insecure and insensitive: Avoidant and anxious attachment predict less concern for others in sacrificial moral dilemmas. Personality and Individual Differences, 185, 111274. doi:10.1016/j.paid.2021.111274

Cameron, C. D., Conway, P., & Scheffer, J. A. (2022). Empathy regulation, prosociality, and moral judgment. Current Opinion in Psychology, 44, 188-195. doi:10.1016/j.copsyc.2021.09.011

Reynolds, C. J., Makhanova, A., Nikonova, L., Eckel, L. A., & Conway, P. (2021). Testosterone and cortisol do not predict rejecting harm or maximizing outcomes in sacrificial moral dilemmas: A preregistered analysis. Hormones and Behavior, 136, 105063. doi:10.1016/j.yhbeh.2021.105063

Bostyn, D. M., Roets, A., & Conway, P. (2021). Sensitivity to moral principles predicts both deontological and utilitarian response tendencies in sacrificial dilemmas. Social Psychological and Personality Science, 13, 436-445. doi:10.1177/19485506211027031

*Mallinas, S. & Conway, P. (2021). If you don’t believe in God, do you at least believe in Aristotle? Evaluations of religious outgroup members hinge upon moral perceptions. The International Journal for the Psychology of Religion, 32, 127-149. doi:10.1080/10508619.2021.1916240

*Huang, X., Funsch, K.M., Park, E.C., Conway, P., & Franklin, J.C. (2021). Safety and ethics of intense suicide research methods: Findings from two longitudinal laboratory studies. Scientific Reports, 11, 9653. doi:10.1038/s41598-021-89152-0

*Maranges, H. M., Hasty, C., Maner, J. K., & Conway, P. (2021). The behavioral ecology of moral dilemmas: Childhood unpredictability, but not harshness, predicts less deontological and utilitarian responding. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 120, 1696–1719. doi:10.1037/pspp0000368

Gawronski, B., Conway, P., Hütter, M., Luke, D. M., Armstrong, J., & Friesdorf, R. (2020). On the validity of the CNI model of moral decision-making: Reply to Baron and Goodwin (2020). Judgment and Decision-Making. 15, 1054-1072.

*Fleischmann, A., Lammers, J., Conway, P., & Galinsky, A. (2020). Kant be compared: People high in social comparison orientation make fewer—not more—deontological decisions in sacrificial dilemmas. Social Psychological and Personality Science, 12, 984-995. doi:10.1177/1948550620947294

Brandt, M. J., Kuppens, T., Spears, R., Andrighetto, L., Autin, F., Babincak, P., Badea, C., Bae, J., Batruch, A., Becker, J. C., Bocian, K., Bodroža, B., Bourguignon, D., Bukowski, M., Butera, F., Butler, S. E., Chryssochoou, X., Conway, P., Crawford, J. T. ... Zimmerman, J. L. (2020). Subjective status and perceived legitimacy across countries. European Journal of Social Psychology, 5, 921-942. doi:10.1002/ejsp.2694

*Reynolds, C. J., Smith, S. M., & Conway, P. (2020). Intrinsic religiosity attenuates the negative relationship between social disconnectedness and meaning in life. Psychology of Religion and Spirituality. doi:10.1037/rel0000318

*Goldstein-Greenwood, J., Conway, P., Summerville, A., & Johnson, B. (2020). (How) do you regret killing one to save five? Affective and cognitive regret differ after utilitarian and deontological decisions. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 46, 1303-1317. doi:10.1177/0146167219897662

*Reynolds, C. J., Makhanova, A., Ng, B., & Conway, P. (2020). Bound together for God and country: The binding foundations explain the impact of analytic cognitive style on religiosity and conservatism. Personality and Individual Differences, 155, 1-12. doi:10.1016/j.paid.2019.109632

*Byrd, N., & Conway, P. (2019). Not all who ponder count costs: arithmetic reflection predicts utilitarian tendencies, but more general reflection predicts both deontological and utilitarian tendencies. Cognition, 195, 1-19. doi:10.1016/j.cognition.2019.06.007

*Reynolds, C. J., Knighten, K., & Conway, P. (2019). Mirror, mirror, on the wall, who is deontological? Completing dilemmas in front of mirrors increases deontological but not utilitarian response tendencies. Cognition, 192, 103993. doi:10.1016/j.cognition.2019.06.005

Landy, J. F., Jia, M., Ding I. L., Viganola, D., Tierney, W., … Conway, P... Uhlmann, E. L. (2019). Crowdsourcing hypothesis tests: Making transparent how design choices shape research results. Psychological Bulletin, 146, 451-479. doi:10.1037/bul0000220

*Goldstein-Greenwood, J., & Conway, P. (2019). Fatigue compatibilism: Perceivers recognize that fatigue reduces prosociality in others, but moral evaluations remain insensitive to perceptions of fatigue. Social Cognition, 37, 57–102. doi:10.1521/soco.2019.37.1.57

*Fleischmann, A., Lammers, J., Conway, P., & Galinsky, A. (2019). Paradoxical effects of power on moral thinking: Why power both increases and decreases deontological and utilitarian moral decisions. Social Psychological and Personality Science, 10, 110-120. doi:10.1177/1948550617744022

Skitka, L. J., & Conway, P. (2019). Morality. In Baumeister, R. F., & Finkel, E. J. (Eds.). (2019). Advanced social psychology: The state of the science, Second Edition (pp. 299-324). OUP USA.

Conway, P., Goldstein-Greenwood, J., Polacek, D., and Greene, J. D. (2018). Sacrificial utilitarian judgments do reflect concern for the greater good: Clarification via process dissociation and the judgments of philosophers. Cognition, 179, 241-265. doi:10.1016/j.cognition.2018.04.018

*McPhetres, J., Conway, P., Hughes, J. S., & Zuckerman, M. (2018). Reflecting on God's will: Reflective processing contributes to religious peoples' deontological dilemma responses. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 79, 301-314. doi:10.1016/j.jesp.2018.08.013

Conway, P., Weiss, A., Burgmer, P., & Mussweiler, T. (2018). Distrusting your moral compass: The impact of distrust mindsets on moral dilemma processing and judgments. Social Cognition, 36, 345-380. doi:10.1521/soco.2018.36.3.345

*Reynolds, C. J., & Conway, P. (2018). Not just bad actions: Affective concern for bad outcomes contributes to moral condemnation of harm in moral dilemmas. Emotion, 18, 1009-1023. doi:10.1037/emo0000413

*Armstrong, J., Friesdorf, R., & Conway, P. (2018). Gender differences in moral dilemma judgments: the complementary roles of harm aversion and action aversion. Social Psychological and Personality Science, 10, 353-363. doi:10.1177/1948550618755873

Gawronski, B., Conway, P., Armstrong, J., Friesdorf, R., & Hütter, M. (2018). Effects of incidental emotions on moral dilemma judgments: An analysis using the CNI model. Emotion, 18, 989-1008. doi:10.1037/emo0000399

Conway, P. (2018). The core of morality is the moral self. In Kurt Gray & Jesse Graham (Eds.), The Atlas of Moral Psychology. New York: Guilford Press.

*Rom, S., & Conway, P. (2018). The strategic moral self: Self-presentation shapes moral dilemma judgments. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 74, 24-37. doi:10.1016/j.jesp.2017.08.003

*Christov-Moore, L., Conway, P., & Iacoboni, M. (2017). Deontological judgments in moral dilemmas are grounded in sensorimotor representations of harm to others. Frontiers in Integrative Neuroscience, 11, doi:10.3389/fnint.2017.00034

Muda, R., Niszczota, P., Bialek, M., & Conway, P. (2017). Reading dilemmas in a foreign language reduces both deontological and utilitarian response tendencies. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, & Cognition, 44, 321-326. doi:10.1037/xlm0000447

Gawronski, B., Armstrong, J., Conway, P., Friesdorf, R., & Hütter, M. (2017). Consequences, norms, and generalized inaction in moral dilemmas: The CNI model of moral decision-making. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 113, 343-376. doi:10.1037/pspa0000086

Maxwell-Smith, M. A., Conway, P., Wright, J. D., & Olson, J. M. (2016). Translating environmental ideologies into action: The amplifying role of commitment to beliefs. Journal of Business Ethics, 153, 1-20. doi:10.1007/s10551-016-3404-3

*Rom, S., Weiss, A., & Conway, P. (2017). Judging those who judge: perceivers infer the roles of affect and cognition underpinning others’ moral dilemma responses. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 69, 44-58. doi:10.1016/j.jesp.2016.09.007

Lammers, J., Koch, A., Conway, P., & Brandt, M. J. (2016). The political domain appears simpler to the politically extreme than to political moderates. Social Psychological and Personality Science, 8, 612-622. doi:10.1177/1948550616678456

Tybur, J. M., Inbar, Y., Aarøe, L., … Conway, P., … & Žeželj, C. (2016). Parasite stress and pathogen avoidance relate to distinct dimensions of political ideology across 30 nations. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 113, 12408-12413. doi:10.1073/pnas.1607398113

Effron, D. A., & Conway, P. (2016). When virtue leads to villainy: Advances in research on moral self-licensing. Current Opinion in Psychology, 6, 32-35. doi:10.1016/j.copsyc.2015.03.017

*Friesdorf, R., Conway, P., & Gawronski, B. (2015). Gender differences in responses to moral dilemmas: A process dissociation analysis. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 42, 696-713. doi:10.1177/0146167215575731

Gawronski, B., Conway, P., Armstrong, J., Friesdorf, R., & Hütter, M. (2015). Moral dilemma judgments: Disentangling deontological inclinations, utilitarian inclinations, and general action tendencies. In J. P. Forgas, P. A. M. Van Lange, & L. Jussim (Eds.), Social psychology of morality. New York: Psychology Press.

Maxwell-Smith, M. A., Seligman, C., Conway, P., & Cheung, I. (2015). Individual differences in commitment to value-based beliefs and the amplification of perceived belief dissimilarity effects. Journal of Personality, 83, 127-141. doi:10.1111/jopy.12089

Conway, P., & Gawronski, B. (2013). Deontological and utilitarian inclinations in moral decision-making: A process dissociation approach. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 104, 216-235. doi:10.1037/a0031021

Hafer, C. L., Conway, P., Cheung, I., Malyk, D., & Olson, J. M. (2012). The relation between identification with a target and the perceived importance of justice. Basic and Applied Social Psychology, 34, 395-409. doi:10.1080/01973533.2012.711693

Conway, P., & Peetz, J. (2012). When does feeling moral actually make you a better person? Conceptual abstraction moderates whether past moral deeds motivate consistency or compensatory behavior. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 38, 907-919. doi:10.1177/0146167212442394

Olson, J. M., Cheung, I., Conway, P., Hutchison, J., & Hafer, C. L. (2011). Distinguishing two meanings of moral exclusion: Irrelevance of fairness vs. rationalized harm-doing. Social Justice Research, 24, 1-26. doi:10.1007/s11211-011-0141-8

Olson, J. M., Hafer, C. L., Cheung, I., & Conway, P. (2009). Deservingness, the scope of justice, and actions toward others. In A. C. Kay, D. R. Bobocel, M. P. Zanna, & J. M. Olson (Eds.), The psychology of justice and legitimacy: The Ontario symposium (Vol. 11, pp. 125-149). New York: Psychology Press.

Grants

Research Grant, Principal Investigator, 2023-2024, Understanding mental health and moral injury in UK military chaplains, Phase 1, ~£20,500, Taigh More Foundation

Seedmoney Grant, Co-Investigator, 2023-2024, The trolley that got away: Do moral judgments in sacrificial dilemmas resemble moral behavior in an economic setting? €3.000, Kurt Lewin Institute

Research Grant, Principal Investigator, 2020-2021, RAPID: Comparing healthcare providers’ and laypeople’s perceptions of COVID-19 sacrifices to reduce reactance to medical advice, $61,086 National Science Foundation.

Research Grant, Co-Investigator, 2019-2021, The gravity of corporate sins: an experimental analysis, €82,706, National Science Centre of Poland.

Research Grant, Principal Investigator, 2019, Moral Decision-making among people on the Autism spectrum, $1000, Disability Independence Group, Inc.

Planning Grant, 2018, Clarifying the psychophysiology of moral judgment, $13,000, FSU Council on Research and Creativity.

University Equipment and Infrastructure Enhancement Grant, 2017-2020: Co-Investigator, Virtual reality equipment for advancing psychological study, $35,041, FSU Council on Research and Creativity.

First Year Assistant Professor Research Grant, Principal Investigator, 2016: Do harm acceptance judgments in moral dilemmas reflect utilitarian considerations or immoral motivations? $20,000, Florida State University Office of Research.

Research Grant, Co-Investigator, 2016-2017 Moral judgments of racial passing: role of perceiver ideology and consequences for social distancing behavior, $5000, The Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues.