Dr. Joshua Greene

Biography

Joshua Greene is an experimental psychologist, neuroscientist, and philosopher at Harvard University. His research focuses on moral judgment and decision-making, employing a combination of behavioral experiments and functional neuroimaging techniques such as fMRI. Greene's work explores the dual processes involved in moral reasoning, distinguishing between 'fast' automatic emotional responses and 'slow' controlled reasoning processes. His laboratory examines complex topics such as cooperation and conflict resolution, the neural bases of high-level cognition, and the infrastructure of complex thought. Greene's approach integrates psychological, philosophical, and neurobiological perspectives to investigate how individuals navigate moral dilemmas and make decisions, informed by research interests that include multimodal compositional semantics, belief systems, and the interplay between cognition and emotion. He is also the author of the book 'Moral Tribes: Emotion, Reason, and the Gap Between Us and Them.'

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