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REPRESENTATIVE PUBLICATIONS (* indicates an undergraduate coauthor from my lab)
{PDF} Rottman, J., Foster-Hanson, E., & Bellersen, S.* (2023). One strike and you’re a lout: Cherished values increase the stringency of moral character attributions. Cognition, 239, 105570.
{PDF} Rottman, J., Crimston, C. R., & Syropoulos, S.* (2021). Tree-huggers versus human-lovers: Anthropomorphism and dehumanization predict valuing nature over outgroups. Cognitive Science, 45(4), e12967. (Podcast feature)
{PDF} Rottman, J., Zizik, V.*, Minard, K.*, Young, L., Blake, P. R., & Kelemen, D. (2020). The moral, or the story? Changing children’s distributive justice preferences through social communication. Cognition, 205, 104441.
{PDF} Lane, J. D., Conder, E. B., & Rottman, J. (2020). The influence of direct and overheard messages on children’s attitudes toward novel social groups. Child Development, 91(3), 829–845.
{PDF} Rottman, J., DeJesus, J.M., & Greenebaum, H.* (2019). Developing disgust: Theory, measurement, and application. In V. LoBue, K. Pérez-Edgar, & K. Buss (Eds.), Handbook of emotional development (pp. 283–309). New York: Springer.
{PDF} Rottman, J., & Young, L. (2019). Specks of dirt and tons of pain: Dosage distinguishes impurity from harm. Psychological Science, 30(8), 1151–1160.
COMPLETE LIST OF PUBLICATIONS (* indicates an undergraduate coauthor from my lab)
{PDF} Syropoulos, S.*, Leidner, B., Mercado, E., Li, M., Cros, S., Gómez, A., Baka, A., Checkroun, P., & Rottman, J. (2024). How safe are we? Introducing the multidimensional model of perceived personal safety. Personality and Individual Differences, 224, 112640.
{PDF} Grigoreva, A. D.*, Rottman, J., & Tasimi, A. (2024). When does “no” mean no? Insights from sex robots. Cognition, 244, 105687.
{PDF} Försterling, M., Hepach, R., & Rottman, J. (2023). Context matters in myriad ways: A reply to ‘Building a cooperative child: Evidence and lessons cross-culturally’ by Tanya Broesch and Erin Robbins. Global Discourse, 13(3–4), 435–441.
{PDF} Giner-Sorolla, R., Myers, S., & Rottman, J. (2023). Reply to Dahl: Moral content is varied, and premature definitions should not constrain it. Psychological Inquiry, 34(2), 86–90.
{PDF} Rottman, J., Foster-Hanson, E., & Bellersen, S.* (2023). One strike and you’re a lout: Cherished values increase the stringency of moral character attributions. Cognition, 239, 105570.
{PDF} Landy, J., Rottman, J., Batres, C., & Leimgruber, K. (2023). Disgusting Democrats and repulsive Republicans: Members of political outgroups are considered physically gross. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 49(3), 361–375.
{PDF} Agrawal, T., Rottman, J., & Schachner, A. (2023). How musicality changes moral consideration: People judge musical entities as more wrong to harm. Psychology of Music, 51(1), 316–336.
{PDF} Grigoreva, A. D.*, & Rottman, J. (2022). Does disgust-eliciting propaganda shape children’s attitudes toward novel immigrant groups? Acta Psychologica, 231, 103790.
{PDF} White, C. J. M., Schaller, M., Abraham, E.*, & Rottman, J. (2022). Navigating between punishment, avoidance, and instruction: The form and function of responses to moral violations varies across adult and child transgressors. Cognition, 223, 105048.
{PDF} Rottman, J., Crimston, C. R., & Syropoulos, S.* (2021). Tree-huggers versus human-lovers: Anthropomorphism and dehumanization predict valuing nature over outgroups. Cognitive Science, 45(4), e12967. (Podcast feature)
{PDF} DeJesus, J. M., Gerdin, E., Venkatesh, S., & Rottman, J. (2021). Considering uncontaminated food as an early-emerging and previously ignored disgust elicitor. Emotion, 21(7), 1522–1536.
{PDF} Flanagan, T.*, Rottman, J., & Howard, L. H. (2021). Constrained choice: Children’s and adults’ attributions of choice to a humanoid robot. Cognitive Science, 45(10), e13043.
{PDF} Ciuk, D. J., & Rottman, J. (2021). Moral conviction, emotion, and the influence of episodic versus thematic frames. Political Communication, 38(5), 519–538.
{PDF} Yucel, M., Sjobeck, G. R., Glass, R.*, & Rottman, J. (2021). Being in the know: Social network analysis of gossip and friendship on a college campus. Human Nature, 32, 603–621.
{PDF} Lerner, M.*, & Rottman, J. (2021). The burden of climate action: How environmental responsibility is impacted by socioeconomic status. Journal of Environmental Psychology, 77, 101674.
{PDF} Horne, Z., Rottman, J., & Lawrence, C.* (2021). Can coherence-based interventions change dogged moral beliefs about meat-eating? Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 96, 104160.
{PDF} Levine, S., Rottman, J., Davis, T., O’Neill, E., Stich, S., & Machery, E. (2021). Religious affiliation and conceptions of the moral domain. Social Cognition, 39(1), 139–165.
{PDF} Gerdin, E., Venkatesh, S., Rottman, J., & DeJesus, J. M. (2021). Developmental antecedents of cleansing effects: Evidence against domain-generality. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 44, e7.
{PDF} Syropoulos, S.*, Rivera-Rodriguez, A., Gómez, A., Baka, A., Cros, S., Martel, F. A., & Rottman, J. (2021). Deadly but protective: Americans’ unique perception of weapons. Peace and Conflict: Journal of Peace Psychology, 27(1), 81–84.
{PDF} Rottman, J., Zizik, V.*, Minard, K.*, Young, L., Blake, P. R., & Kelemen, D. (2020). The moral, or the story? Changing children’s distributive justice preferences through social communication. Cognition, 205, 104441.
{PDF} Lane, J. D., Conder, E. B., & Rottman, J. (2020). The influence of direct and overheard messages on children’s attitudes toward novel social groups. Child Development, 91(3), 829–845.
{PDF} Rottman, J., Johnston, A. M., Bierhoff, S.*, Pelletier, T.*, Grigoreva, A. D.*, & Benitez, J.* (2020). In sickness and in filth: Developing a disdain for dirty people. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 196, 104858.
{PDF} Rottman, J., DeJesus, J.M., & Greenebaum, H.* (2019). Developing disgust: Theory, measurement, and application. In V. LoBue, K. Pérez-Edgar, & K. Buss (Eds.), Handbook of emotional development (pp. 283–309). New York: Springer.
{PDF} Piazza, J., Sousa, P., Rottman, J., & Syropoulos, S.* (2019). Which appraisals are foundational to moral judgment? Harm, injustice, and beyond. Social Psychological and Personality Science, 10(7), 903–913.
{PDF} Rottman, J., & Young, L. (2019). Specks of dirt and tons of pain: Dosage distinguishes impurity from harm. Psychological Science, 30(8), 1151–1160.
{PDF} Lynch, J. M.*, Lane, J. D., Berryessa, C. M., & Rottman, J. (2019). How information about perpetrators’ nature and nurture influences assessments of their character, mental states, and deserved punishment. PLOS One, 14(10), e0224093.
{PDF} Rottman, J. (2019). The space between rationalism and sentimentalism: A perspective from moral development. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 42, e165. (Target article and other commentaries)
{PDF} Rottman, J., DeJesus, J. M., & Gerdin, E. (2018). The social origins of disgust. In N. Strohminger & V. Kumar (Eds.), The moral psychology of disgust (pp. 27–52). London: Rowman & Littlefield.
{PDF} Rottman, J., Young, L., & Kelemen, D. (2017). The impact of testimony on children’s moralization of novel actions. Emotion, 17(5), 811–827.
{PDF} Rottman, J., Zhu, L., Wang, W., Schillaci, R. S., Clark, K. J., & Kelemen, D. (2017). Cultural influences on the teleological stance: Evidence from China. Religion, Brain & Behavior, 7(1), 17–26.
{PDF} Rottman, J., Kelemen, D., & Young, L. (2015). Hindering harm and preserving purity: How can moral psychology save the planet? Philosophy Compass, 10(2), 134–144.
{PDF} Rottman, J., & Young, L. (2015). Mechanisms of moral development. In J. Decety & T. Wheatley (Eds.), The moral brain: A multidisciplinary perspective (pp. 123–142). Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
{PDF} Rottman, J. (2014). Breaking down biocentrism: Two distinct forms of moral concern for nature. Frontiers in Psychology, 5, 905.
{PDF} Rottman, J. (2014). Evolution, development, and the emergence of disgust. Evolutionary Psychology, 12(2), 417–433.
{PDF} Rottman, J., & Kelemen, D. (2014). The morality of martyrdom and the stigma of suicide. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 37(4), 375–376. (Target article and other commentaries)
{PDF} Rosset, E., & Rottman, J. (2014). The big "whoops" in the study of intentional behavior: An appeal for a new framework in understanding human actions. Journal of Cognition and Culture, 14(1–2), 27–39.
{PDF} Rottman, J., Kelemen, D., & Young, L. (2014). Purity matters more than harm in moral judgments of suicide: Response to Gray (2014). Cognition, 133(1), 332–334. (Commentary by Gray)
{PDF} Rottman, J., Kelemen, D., & Young, L. (2014). Tainting the soul: Purity concerns predict moral judgments of suicide. Cognition, 130(2), 217–226. (Coverage in The Atlantic)
{PDF} Rottman, J., & Young, L. (2014). Comment: Scholarly disgust and related mysteries. Emotion Review, 6(3), 222–223. (Target article) (Other commentaries)
{PDF} Kelemen, D., Rottman, J., & Seston, R. (2013). Professional physical scientists display tenacious teleological tendencies: Purpose-based reasoning as a cognitive default. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 142(4), 1074–1083.
{PDF} Rottman, J. (2013). Review of "Born believers: The science of children's religious belief". Religion, Brain & Behavior, 3(3), 254–256.
{PDF} Rottman, J., & Kelemen, D. (2012). Aliens behaving badly: Children's acquisition of novel purity-based morals. Cognition, 124(3), 356–360.
{PDF} Rottman, J., & Kelemen, D. (2012). Is there such a thing as a Christian child? Evidence of religious beliefs in early childhood. In P. McNamara & W. J. Wildman (Eds.), Science and the world’s religions, Volume 2: Persons and groups (pp. 205–238). Santa Barbara, CA: Praeger Press.
Electronic versions are provided as a professional courtesy to ensure timely dissemination of academic work for individual, noncommercial purposes. Copyright (and all rights therein) resides with the respective copyright holders. These files may not be reposted without permission.
For my Psychology Today blog, with short articles written for the general public, please click here.
REPRESENTATIVE PUBLICATIONS (* indicates an undergraduate coauthor from my lab)
{PDF} Rottman, J., Foster-Hanson, E., & Bellersen, S.* (2023). One strike and you’re a lout: Cherished values increase the stringency of moral character attributions. Cognition, 239, 105570.
{PDF} Rottman, J., Crimston, C. R., & Syropoulos, S.* (2021). Tree-huggers versus human-lovers: Anthropomorphism and dehumanization predict valuing nature over outgroups. Cognitive Science, 45(4), e12967. (Podcast feature)
{PDF} Rottman, J., Zizik, V.*, Minard, K.*, Young, L., Blake, P. R., & Kelemen, D. (2020). The moral, or the story? Changing children’s distributive justice preferences through social communication. Cognition, 205, 104441.
{PDF} Lane, J. D., Conder, E. B., & Rottman, J. (2020). The influence of direct and overheard messages on children’s attitudes toward novel social groups. Child Development, 91(3), 829–845.
{PDF} Rottman, J., DeJesus, J.M., & Greenebaum, H.* (2019). Developing disgust: Theory, measurement, and application. In V. LoBue, K. Pérez-Edgar, & K. Buss (Eds.), Handbook of emotional development (pp. 283–309). New York: Springer.
{PDF} Rottman, J., & Young, L. (2019). Specks of dirt and tons of pain: Dosage distinguishes impurity from harm. Psychological Science, 30(8), 1151–1160.
COMPLETE LIST OF PUBLICATIONS (* indicates an undergraduate coauthor from my lab)
{PDF} Syropoulos, S.*, Leidner, B., Mercado, E., Li, M., Cros, S., Gómez, A., Baka, A., Checkroun, P., & Rottman, J. (2024). How safe are we? Introducing the multidimensional model of perceived personal safety. Personality and Individual Differences, 224, 112640.
{PDF} Grigoreva, A. D.*, Rottman, J., & Tasimi, A. (2024). When does “no” mean no? Insights from sex robots. Cognition, 244, 105687.
{PDF} Försterling, M., Hepach, R., & Rottman, J. (2023). Context matters in myriad ways: A reply to ‘Building a cooperative child: Evidence and lessons cross-culturally’ by Tanya Broesch and Erin Robbins. Global Discourse, 13(3–4), 435–441.
{PDF} Giner-Sorolla, R., Myers, S., & Rottman, J. (2023). Reply to Dahl: Moral content is varied, and premature definitions should not constrain it. Psychological Inquiry, 34(2), 86–90.
{PDF} Rottman, J., Foster-Hanson, E., & Bellersen, S.* (2023). One strike and you’re a lout: Cherished values increase the stringency of moral character attributions. Cognition, 239, 105570.
{PDF} Landy, J., Rottman, J., Batres, C., & Leimgruber, K. (2023). Disgusting Democrats and repulsive Republicans: Members of political outgroups are considered physically gross. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 49(3), 361–375.
{PDF} Agrawal, T., Rottman, J., & Schachner, A. (2023). How musicality changes moral consideration: People judge musical entities as more wrong to harm. Psychology of Music, 51(1), 316–336.
{PDF} Grigoreva, A. D.*, & Rottman, J. (2022). Does disgust-eliciting propaganda shape children’s attitudes toward novel immigrant groups? Acta Psychologica, 231, 103790.
{PDF} White, C. J. M., Schaller, M., Abraham, E.*, & Rottman, J. (2022). Navigating between punishment, avoidance, and instruction: The form and function of responses to moral violations varies across adult and child transgressors. Cognition, 223, 105048.
{PDF} Rottman, J., Crimston, C. R., & Syropoulos, S.* (2021). Tree-huggers versus human-lovers: Anthropomorphism and dehumanization predict valuing nature over outgroups. Cognitive Science, 45(4), e12967. (Podcast feature)
{PDF} DeJesus, J. M., Gerdin, E., Venkatesh, S., & Rottman, J. (2021). Considering uncontaminated food as an early-emerging and previously ignored disgust elicitor. Emotion, 21(7), 1522–1536.
{PDF} Flanagan, T.*, Rottman, J., & Howard, L. H. (2021). Constrained choice: Children’s and adults’ attributions of choice to a humanoid robot. Cognitive Science, 45(10), e13043.
{PDF} Ciuk, D. J., & Rottman, J. (2021). Moral conviction, emotion, and the influence of episodic versus thematic frames. Political Communication, 38(5), 519–538.
{PDF} Yucel, M., Sjobeck, G. R., Glass, R.*, & Rottman, J. (2021). Being in the know: Social network analysis of gossip and friendship on a college campus. Human Nature, 32, 603–621.
{PDF} Lerner, M.*, & Rottman, J. (2021). The burden of climate action: How environmental responsibility is impacted by socioeconomic status. Journal of Environmental Psychology, 77, 101674.
{PDF} Horne, Z., Rottman, J., & Lawrence, C.* (2021). Can coherence-based interventions change dogged moral beliefs about meat-eating? Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 96, 104160.
{PDF} Levine, S., Rottman, J., Davis, T., O’Neill, E., Stich, S., & Machery, E. (2021). Religious affiliation and conceptions of the moral domain. Social Cognition, 39(1), 139–165.
{PDF} Gerdin, E., Venkatesh, S., Rottman, J., & DeJesus, J. M. (2021). Developmental antecedents of cleansing effects: Evidence against domain-generality. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 44, e7.
{PDF} Syropoulos, S.*, Rivera-Rodriguez, A., Gómez, A., Baka, A., Cros, S., Martel, F. A., & Rottman, J. (2021). Deadly but protective: Americans’ unique perception of weapons. Peace and Conflict: Journal of Peace Psychology, 27(1), 81–84.
{PDF} Rottman, J., Zizik, V.*, Minard, K.*, Young, L., Blake, P. R., & Kelemen, D. (2020). The moral, or the story? Changing children’s distributive justice preferences through social communication. Cognition, 205, 104441.
{PDF} Lane, J. D., Conder, E. B., & Rottman, J. (2020). The influence of direct and overheard messages on children’s attitudes toward novel social groups. Child Development, 91(3), 829–845.
{PDF} Rottman, J., Johnston, A. M., Bierhoff, S.*, Pelletier, T.*, Grigoreva, A. D.*, & Benitez, J.* (2020). In sickness and in filth: Developing a disdain for dirty people. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 196, 104858.
{PDF} Rottman, J., DeJesus, J.M., & Greenebaum, H.* (2019). Developing disgust: Theory, measurement, and application. In V. LoBue, K. Pérez-Edgar, & K. Buss (Eds.), Handbook of emotional development (pp. 283–309). New York: Springer.
{PDF} Piazza, J., Sousa, P., Rottman, J., & Syropoulos, S.* (2019). Which appraisals are foundational to moral judgment? Harm, injustice, and beyond. Social Psychological and Personality Science, 10(7), 903–913.
{PDF} Rottman, J., & Young, L. (2019). Specks of dirt and tons of pain: Dosage distinguishes impurity from harm. Psychological Science, 30(8), 1151–1160.
{PDF} Lynch, J. M.*, Lane, J. D., Berryessa, C. M., & Rottman, J. (2019). How information about perpetrators’ nature and nurture influences assessments of their character, mental states, and deserved punishment. PLOS One, 14(10), e0224093.
{PDF} Rottman, J. (2019). The space between rationalism and sentimentalism: A perspective from moral development. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 42, e165. (Target article and other commentaries)
{PDF} Rottman, J., DeJesus, J. M., & Gerdin, E. (2018). The social origins of disgust. In N. Strohminger & V. Kumar (Eds.), The moral psychology of disgust (pp. 27–52). London: Rowman & Littlefield.
{PDF} Rottman, J., Young, L., & Kelemen, D. (2017). The impact of testimony on children’s moralization of novel actions. Emotion, 17(5), 811–827.
{PDF} Rottman, J., Zhu, L., Wang, W., Schillaci, R. S., Clark, K. J., & Kelemen, D. (2017). Cultural influences on the teleological stance: Evidence from China. Religion, Brain & Behavior, 7(1), 17–26.
{PDF} Rottman, J., Kelemen, D., & Young, L. (2015). Hindering harm and preserving purity: How can moral psychology save the planet? Philosophy Compass, 10(2), 134–144.
{PDF} Rottman, J., & Young, L. (2015). Mechanisms of moral development. In J. Decety & T. Wheatley (Eds.), The moral brain: A multidisciplinary perspective (pp. 123–142). Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
{PDF} Rottman, J. (2014). Breaking down biocentrism: Two distinct forms of moral concern for nature. Frontiers in Psychology, 5, 905.
{PDF} Rottman, J. (2014). Evolution, development, and the emergence of disgust. Evolutionary Psychology, 12(2), 417–433.
{PDF} Rottman, J., & Kelemen, D. (2014). The morality of martyrdom and the stigma of suicide. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 37(4), 375–376. (Target article and other commentaries)
{PDF} Rosset, E., & Rottman, J. (2014). The big "whoops" in the study of intentional behavior: An appeal for a new framework in understanding human actions. Journal of Cognition and Culture, 14(1–2), 27–39.
{PDF} Rottman, J., Kelemen, D., & Young, L. (2014). Purity matters more than harm in moral judgments of suicide: Response to Gray (2014). Cognition, 133(1), 332–334. (Commentary by Gray)
{PDF} Rottman, J., Kelemen, D., & Young, L. (2014). Tainting the soul: Purity concerns predict moral judgments of suicide. Cognition, 130(2), 217–226. (Coverage in The Atlantic)
{PDF} Rottman, J., & Young, L. (2014). Comment: Scholarly disgust and related mysteries. Emotion Review, 6(3), 222–223. (Target article) (Other commentaries)
{PDF} Kelemen, D., Rottman, J., & Seston, R. (2013). Professional physical scientists display tenacious teleological tendencies: Purpose-based reasoning as a cognitive default. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 142(4), 1074–1083.
{PDF} Rottman, J. (2013). Review of "Born believers: The science of children's religious belief". Religion, Brain & Behavior, 3(3), 254–256.
{PDF} Rottman, J., & Kelemen, D. (2012). Aliens behaving badly: Children's acquisition of novel purity-based morals. Cognition, 124(3), 356–360.
{PDF} Rottman, J., & Kelemen, D. (2012). Is there such a thing as a Christian child? Evidence of religious beliefs in early childhood. In P. McNamara & W. J. Wildman (Eds.), Science and the world’s religions, Volume 2: Persons and groups (pp. 205–238). Santa Barbara, CA: Praeger Press.
Electronic versions are provided as a professional courtesy to ensure timely dissemination of academic work for individual, noncommercial purposes. Copyright (and all rights therein) resides with the respective copyright holders. These files may not be reposted without permission.
