Psychology research

This is a list of work in psychology or neuroscience. At the bottom of the page is a list of works currently in progress.

Below are papers that are published or forthcoming--please email me for any drafts or copies of articles that you have trouble accessing!

Forthcoming or Published:

1. Murray, S., O'Neill, K., Bridges, J., Sytsma, J., and Irving, Z.C. Forthcoming. Responsibility for Hum(e)an beings: The role of character information in moral judgment. Social Psychological and Personality Science.

2. Murray, S., Jiménez-Leal, W., and Amaya, S. Forthcoming. Within your rights: dissociating wrongness and permissibility in moral judgment. British Journal of Social Psychology.

3. Murray, S., Bermúdez, J.P., and De Brigard, F. In press. Moralization and self-control strategy selection. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review.

4. Krasich, K., O'Neill, K., Murray, S., Nuthmann, A., Brockmole, J., and De Brigard, F. Forthcoming. Fixation duration variability increases with mind wandering during scene viewing. Cognition.

5. Murray, S., Amaya, S., and Jiménez-Leal, W. Forthcoming. Purity is linked to cooperation but not necessarily through self-control. Behavioral and Brain Sciences. 

6. Murray, S., Liang, N., Brosowsky, N., and Seli, P. In press. What are the benefits of mind wandering to creativity? Psychology of Creativity, Aesthetics, and the Arts.

7. Murray, S., Krasich, K., Irving, Z., Nadelhoffer, T., and De Brigard, F. In press. Mental control and attributions of blame for negligent wrongdoing. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General 152:1, 120 - 138.

8. Khoudary, M., O'Neill, K., Faul, L., Murray, S., Smallman, R., and De Brigard, F. 2022. Neural differences between dispositional and situational episodic counterfactual thought. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B 377.1866: 20210337.

9. Smith, A., Brosowsky, N., Murray, S., Daniel, R., Meier, M., and Seli, P. 2022. Fixation, flexibility, and creativity: The dynamics of mind wandering. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance 48:7, 689 - 710.

10. Brosowsky, N., Murray, S., Schooler, J.W., and Seli, P. 2021. Thought dynamics under task demands: Evaluating the influence of task difficulty on unconstrained thought. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance 47:9, 1298-1312.

11. Krasich, K., Gjorgieva, E., Murray, S., Bhatia, S., Faber, M., De Brigard, F., and Woldorff, M. 2021. The impact of error-consequence severity on the neurocognitive processing cascade underlying event-cued prospective memory. Cerebral Cortex Communications 2:4, doi: 10.1093/texcom/tgab056.

12. Brosowsky, N., Murray, S., Schooler, J.W., and Seli, P. 2021. Attention need not always apply: Mind wandering impedes explicit but not implicit sequence learning. Cognition 209, 104530.

13. Murray, S., Krasich, K., Schooler, J.W., and Seli, P. (2020). What’s in a task? Complications in the study of the task-unrelated-thought (TUT) variety of mind wandering. Perspectives on Psychological Science 15:3, 572-88. 

IN PROGRESS or UNDER REVIEW:

• Loyalty from a personal point of view: A cross-cultural prototypes study of loyalty (revision submitted; with Santiago Amaya, William Jiménez-Leal, Gino Carmona, and Laura Sofia Vega).

• Validating the structure of the Moral Foundations Questionnaire in Latin America (under review; with William Jiménez-Leal, Gino Carmona, and Santiago Amaya)

• Forgetting and forgiving: exploring the phenomenology of forgiveness (with Gabriela Fernández-Miranda, Matthew Stanley, Leonard Faul, and Felipe De Brigard) [DRAFT AVAILABLE]

• Aspiration and duty: an empirical case for moral dualism (with William Jiménez-Leal and Santiago Amaya) [DRAFT AVAILABLE]

• Normative prototypes and their intra- and inter-cultural variability (with Gino Carmona, Santiago Amaya, and William Jiménez-Leal).

• Doomsday: Value, Purpose, and the Impersonal Future (with Ryan Bollier, Elise Dykhuis, and Felipe De Brigard) [DRAFT AVAILABLE]

• Implementing within-subjects design for experimental philosophy (with John Prtozko)

• Structured exposure to reasons as a means to mitigating contrapartisan polarization (with Walter Sinnott-Armstrong and Hannah Read) [DRAFT AVAILABLE]

• Causal negligence (with Paul Henne, Kevin O'Neill, and Felipe De Brigard) [DRAFT AVAILABLE]

• Dissociable dimensions of thought in the stream of consciousness (with Caitlin Mills, Vishal Kuvar, and Zac Irving)