Justin F. Landy, Ph.D.

Landy, J. F. & Perry, A. D. (2024). Forming evaluations of moral character: How are multiple pieces of information prioritized and integrated? Cognitive Science, 48, e13443. [link] [OSF]

Huppert, E., Herzog, N., Landy, J. F., & Levine, E. (2023). On being honest about dishonesty: The social costs of taking nuanced (but realistic) moral stances. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 125, 259-283. [link] [OSF]

Scott, S. E. & Landy, J. F. (2023). "Good people don't need medication": How moral character beliefs affect medical decision making. Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, 174, 104225. [link] [OSF]

Landy, J. F., Rottman, J., Batres, C., & Leimgruber K. L. (2023). Disgusting Democrats and repulsive Republicans: Members of political outgroups are considered physically gross. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 49(3), 361-375. [link] [OSF]

Landy, J. F., Shigeto, A., Laxman, D. J., & Scheier, L. M. (2022). Typologies of stress appraisal and problem-focused coping in the COVID-19 pandemic: Associations with compliance with public health recommendations. BMC Public Health, 22, 784. [link]

Landy, J. F. & Shah, P. (2022). What drives opposition to suicide? Two exploratory studies of normative judgments. Judgment and Decision Making, 17(1), 164-188. [link] [OSF]

Shigeto, A., Laxman, D. J., Landy, J. F., & Scheier, L. M. (2021). Typologies of coping in young adults in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic. Journal of General Psychology, 148(3), 272-304. [link]

Landy, J. F., Jia., M., Ding, I. L., Viganola, D., Tierney, W., ... & Uhlmann, E. L. (2020). Crowdsourcing hypothesis tests: Making transparent how design choices shape research results. Psychological Bulletin, 146(5), 451-479. [link] [OSF]

Piazza, J. & Landy, J. F. (2020). Folk beliefs about the relationships anger and disgust have with moral disapproval. Cognition and Emotion, 34(2), 229-241. [link] [OSF]

Landy, J. F., & Piazza, J. (2019). Re-evaluating moral disgust: Sensitivity to many affective states predicts extremity in many evaluative judgments. Social Psychological and Personality Science, 10(2), 211-219. [link] [OSF]

Landy, J. F. & Bartels, D. M. (2018). An empirically-derived taxonomy of moral concepts. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 147(11), 1748-1761. [link] [OSF]

Landy, J. F., Walco, D. K., & Bartels, D. M. (2017). What's wrong with using steroids? Exploring whether and why people oppose the use of performance enhancing drugs. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 113(3), 377-392. [link] [SJDM 2017 Poster] [OSF]

Caruso, E. M., Shapira, O., & Landy, J. F. (2017). Show me the money: A systematic exploration of manipulations, moderators, and mechanisms of priming effects. Psychological Science, 28(8), 1148-1159. [link] [OSF]

Landy, J. F. (2016). Representations of moral violations: Category members and associated features. Judgment and Decision Making, 11(5), 496-508. [link]

Landy, J. F., Piazza, J. & Goodwin, G. P. (2016). When it's bad to be friendly and smart: The desirability of sociability and competence depends on morality. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 42(9), 1272-1290. [link]

Landy, J. F. & Goodwin, G. P. (2015). Does incidental disgust amplify moral judgment? A meta-analytic review of experimental evidence. Perspectives on Psychological Science, 10(4), 518-536. [link] [OSF]

Royzman, E. B., Landy, J. F., & Leeman, R. F. (2015). Are thoughtful people more utilitarian? CRT as a unique predictor of moral minimalism in the dilemmatic context. Cognitive Science, 39(2), 325-352. [link]

Royzman, E., Atanasov, P., Landy, J. F., Parks, A., & Gepty, A. (2014). CAD or MAD? Anger (not disgust) as the predominant response to pathogen-free violations of the Divinity code. Emotion, 14(5), 892-907. [link]

Royzman, E. B., Landy, J. F., & Goodwin, G. P. (2014). Are good reasoners more incest-friendly? Trait cognitive reflection predicts selective moralization in a sample of American adults. Judgment and Decision Making, 9(3), 175-190. [link]

Goodwin, G. P. & Landy, J. F. (2014). Valuing different human lives. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 143(2), 778-803. [link]

Piazza, J., Landy, J. F., & Goodwin, G. P. (2014). Cruel nature: Harmfulness as an important, overlooked dimension in judgments of moral standing. Cognition, 131(1), 108-124. [link]

Piazza, J. & Landy, J. F. (2013). "Lean not on your own understanding": Belief that morality is founded on divine authority and non-utilitarian moral judgments. Judgment and Decision Making, 8(6), 639-661. [link]

Landy, J. F. & Kupfer, T. R. (2023). Editorial: Appraisal processes in moral judgment: resolving moral issues through cognition and emotion. Frontiers in Psychology, 14, 1233865. [link]

Landy, J. F. (2019). Cautiously optimistic rationalism may not be cautious enough. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 42, E159. [link]

Landy, J. F., Piazza, J., & Goodwin, G. P. (2018). Morality traits still dominate in forming impressions of others. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of United States of America, 115(25) E5636. [link]

Landy, J. F. & Goodwin, G. P. (2015). Our conclusions were tentative, but appropriate: A reply to Schnall et al. (2015). Perspectives on Psychological Science, 10(4), 539-540. [link]

Goodwin, G. P. & Landy, J. F. (in press). Moral character. In P. Robbins & B. Malle (Eds.), Cambridge handbook of moral psychology.

Landy, J. F. & Perry, A. D. (2024). Harnessing moral cognition to save lives. In M. Miller (Ed.), The social science of the COVID-19 pandemc: A call to action for researchers (pp. 437-448). Oxford University Press.

Piazza, J., Landy, J. F., Chakroff, A., Young, L., & Wasserman, E. W. (2018). What disgust does and does not do for moral cognition. In N. Strohmnger & V. Kumar (Eds.), The moral psychology of disgust (pp. 53-81). Rowan & Littlefield.

Landy, J. F. & Royzman, E. B. (2018). The Moral Myopia Model: Why and how reasoning matters in moral judgment. In G. Pennycook (Ed.), The new reflectionism in cognitive psychology: Why reason matters (pp. 70-92). Psychology Press.

Landy, J. F. & Uhlmann, E. L. (2018). Morality is personal. In J. Graham & K. Gray (Eds.), The atlas of moral psychology: Mapping good and evil in the mind (pp. 121-132). Guilford.