Jean Decety - Selected Publications#

Yoder, K. J., & Decety, J. (2022). Moral conviction and metacognitive ability shape multiple stages of information processing during social decision-making. Cortex, 151, 162-175.

Decety, J. (2021). Why empathy is not a reliable source of information in moral decision-making. Current Directions in Psychological Science, 30(5), 425-430.

Decety, J., Steinbeis, N., & Cowell, J. (2021). The neuro-development of social preferences in early childhood. Current Opinion in Neurobiology, 68, 23-28.

Santamaría-García, H., Baez, S., Aponte, D. M., Pasciarello, G. O., Donnelly-Kehoe, P. A., Maggiotti, G., Matallana, D., Hesse, E., Neely, A., Zapata, J. G., Chiong, W., Levy, J., Decety, J., & Ibáñez, A. (2021). Uncovering social-contextual and individual health factors associated with violence via computational inference. Patterns, 2, 100176.

Yoder, K., Ruby, K., Pape, R., & Decety, J. (2020). EEG spectral power distinguishes between heroic and social narratives. Scientific Reports, 10: 19593.

Workman, C. I., Yoder, K. J., & Decety, J. (2020). The dark side of morality – Neural mechanisms underpinning moral convictions and support for violence. American Journal of Bioethics - Neuroscience, 11(4), 269-284.

Yoder, K. J., & Decety, J. (2020). Me first: Neural representations of fairness during a three-party interactions. Neuropsychologia, 147, 107576.

Sajous-Turner, A., Anderson, N. E., Widdows, M., Nyalakanti, P., Harenski, K., Harenski, C., Koenigs, M., Decety, J., & Kiehl, K. A. (2020). Aberrant brain gray matter in murderers. Brain Imaging and Behavior,14(5), 2050-2061.

Cowell, J. M., Sommerville, J. A., & Decety, J. (2019). That’s not fair: Children’s neural computations of fairness and their impact on allocation behaviors and judgments. Developmental Psychology, 55(11), 2299-2310.

Fourie, M., Stein, D. J., Solms, M., Gobodo-Madikizela, P., & Decety, J. (2019). Effects of early adversity and social discrimination on empathy for complex mental states: An fMRI investigation. Scientific Reports, 9: 12959.

Decety, J., Ben-Ami Bartal, I., Uzefovsky, F., & Knafo-Noam, A. (2016). Empathy as a driver of prosocial behavior: Highly conserved neurobehavioral mechanisms across species. Proceedings of the Royal Society London - Biology, 371, 20150077.

Cowell, J., & Decety, J. (2015). Precursors to morality in development as a complex interplay between neural, socio-environmental, and behavioral facets. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 112 (41), 12657-12662.

Decety, J., & Cowell, J. M. (2014). The complex relation between morality and empathy. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 18(7), 337-339.

Decety, J., Michalska, K. J., & Kinzler, K. D. (2012). The contribution of emotion and cognition to moral sensitivity: A neurodevelopmental study. Cerebral Cortex, 22, 209-220.

Ben-Ami Bartal, I., Decety, J., & Mason, P. (2011). Empathy and pro-social behavior in rats. Science, 334, 1427-1430.

Decety, J., Echols, S. C., & Correll, J. (2010). The blame game: the effect of responsibility and social stigma on empathy for pain. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 22, 985-997.

Lamm, C., Batson, C. D., & Decety, J. (2007). The neural substrate of human empathy: effects of perspective-taking and cognitive appraisal. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 19, 42-58.

Decety, J., & Jackson, P. L. (2004). The functional architecture of human empathy. Behavioral and Cognitive Neuroscience Reviews, 3, 71-100.