Rule Enforcement and Punishment
How to tell if a rule was broken: The role of codification, norms, morality, and legitimacy. Wylie, J., Bostyn, D., & Gantman, A. P. (under review)
The psychology of state punishment. European Journal of Social Psychology. Wylie, J., Chiu, C., Dakin, N., Cunningham, W., & Gantman, A. P. (2025).
Cooperation, Domination: Twin functions of third party punishment, Social and Personality Psychology Compass, 18. Wylie, J. & Gantman, A. P. (2024)
The biased enforcement of rarely followed rules. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 1-14. Wylie, J., Milless, K., Sciarappo, J., & Gantman, A. P. (2024).
Doesn’t everybody jaywalk? On the motivated enforcement of frequently violated rules. Cognition, 231. Wylie, J. & Gantman, A. P. (2023).
Gender, Care, and Sexual Violence
Moralizing consent: Two field experiments testing a student-led intervention at university parties. Gantman, A. P., Duker, A., Starck, J., & Paluck, E. L. (under review) See pre-registration and talk slides and recording
Is feminized labor antithetical to profitable labor? Psychology of Women Quarterly, 48, 475–490. Flores-Robles, G., & Gantman, A. P. (2024).
Preventing Sexual Violence —A Behavioral Problem Without a Behaviorally-Informed Solution. Psychological Science in the Public Interest, 25, 4-29. Porat, R., Gantman, A. P., Green A. A., Pezzuto, J. H., & Paluck, E. P. (2024). With expert commentary by Lopez & Koss.
Love vs. money: Understanding unique challenges in care workers’ labor organizing. In M. Lindauer Advances in Experimental Political Philosophy. Flores-Robles, G., & Gantman, A. P. (2023).
A behavioral-science framework for understanding college campus sexual assault. Perspectives on Psychological Science, 17, 979-994. Gantman, A. P., & Paluck, E. L. (2022).
What is the psychological appeal of the serial rapist model? Worldviews predicting endorsement. Behavioral Public Policy, 1-16. Gantman, A. P., & Paluck, E. L., (2022).
Art and Morality
People can find their true selves outside moral pursuits. Wylie, J., Lindauer, M., & Gantman, A. P. (under review)
People are curious about immoral and morally ambiguous others. Scientific Reports, 13. Wylie, J., & Gantman, A. P. (2023).
What is moral ambiguity and when does it trigger curiosity? Proceedings of the 44th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society. Wylie, J., & Gantman, A. P. (2022)
Morality in Groups and Institutions
Seeing and sanctioning structural unfairness. Flores-Robles, G., & Gantman, A. P. (under review)
Political ideology and worldviews predict union support. Flores-Robles, G., Gantman, A. P., Carriere, K. (under review)
People construe a corporation as an individual to ascribe responsibility in cases of corporate wrongdoing. Sharma, N., Flores-Robles, G., & Gantman, A. P. (under review)
Investigating differences between American Leftists and Liberals. Journal of Social and Political Psychology. Flores-Robles, G., Alto, A., Anderson, K., Wylie, J., Satter, L., & Gantman, A. P. (2025)
Moral activation: “Binding” values gain importance in the presence of close others. Nature Communications, 12, 1-12. Yudkin, D.A. , Gantman, A., Hofmann, W., & Quoidbach, J. (2021).
Allocating moral responsibility to multiple agents. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 91, 104-127. Gantman, A. P., Sternisko, A., Gollwitzer, P. M., Oettingen, G., Van Bavel, J. J. (2020).
Incomplete professional identity goals override moral concerns.Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 65, 31-41. Marquardt, M. K., Gantman, A. P., Gollwitzer, P. M., & Oettingen, G. (2016).
Moral Psychology and Visual Experience
The time-course of moral perception: An ERP investigation of the moral pop-out effect. Gantman, A. P., Devraj-Kizuk, S., Mende-Siedlecki, P., Van Bavel, J. J., & Mathewson, K. E. (2020). Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, 235-246.
Attentional capture helps explain why moral and emotional content go viral. Brady, W. J., Gantman, A. P., & Van Bavel, J. J. (2020). Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 149, 746-756.
Exposure to justice diminishes moral perception. Gantman, A. P., & Van Bavel, J. J. (2016). Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 145, 1728-1739.
Commentary on Firestone and Scholl: Behavior is multiply determined and perception is multiply defined. Gantman, A. P., Van Bavel, J. J. (2015). Behavioral Brain Sciences.
Letter: See for yourself: Perception is attuned to morality. Gantman, A. P., Van Bavel, J. J. (2016). Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 20, 76-77.
Moral perception. Gantman, A. P., & Van Bavel, J.J. (2015). Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 19, 631-633.
The moral pop-out effect: Enhanced perceptual awareness of morally relevant stimuli. Gantman, A. P. & Van Bavel, J. J., (2014). Cognition, 132, 22-29.