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. Bermúdez, J.P. and Murray, S.* Forthcoming. Believe in your self-control: Lay theories of self-control and their downstream effects. Current Opinion in Psychology.

2. Murray, S. and Amaya, S. Forthcoming. The Strategic Allocation Theory of Vigilance. WIREs: Cognitive Science.

3. Murray, S., Carmona, G., Vega, L.S., Jiménez-Leal, W., and Amaya, S. Forthcoming. Loyalty from a personal point of view: A cross-cultural prototypes study of loyalty. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General.

4. Murray, S., O’Neill, K., Bridges, J., Sytsma, J., & Irving, Z. C. 2024. Blame for Hum (e) an beings: The role of character information in judgments of blame. Social Psychological and Personality Science, 19485506241233708.

5. Murray, S., Jiménez‐Leal, W., & Amaya, S. 2024. Within your rights: Dissociating wrongness and permissibility in moral judgement. British Journal of Social Psychology, 63(1), 340-361.

6. Murray, S., Liang, N., Brosowsky, N., and Seli, P. 2024. What are the benefits of mind wandering to creativity? Psychology of Creativity, Aesthetics, and the Arts 18:3, 403 - 416.

7. Krasich, K., O'Neill, K., Murray, S., Brockmole, J. R., De Brigard, F., & Nuthmann, A. 2024. A computational modeling approach to investigating mind wandering-related adjustments to gaze behavior during scene viewing. Cognition, 242, 105624.

8. Murray, S., Bermúdez, J. P., & De Brigard, F. 2023. Moralization and self-control strategy selection. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 30(4), 1586-1595.

9. Murray, S., Amaya, S., & Jiménez-Leal, W. 2023. Purity is linked to cooperation but not necessarily through self-control. Behavioral and brain sciences, 46, e311. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0140525X23000316 

10. Murray S, Krasich K, Irving Z, Nadelhoffer T, De Brigard F. 2023. Mental control and attributions of blame for negligent wrongdoing. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General 152(1): 120-138. doi: 10.1037/xge0001262. Epub 2022 Aug 1. PMID: 35913874.

11. 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.

12. 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.

13. 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.

14. 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.

15. 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.

16. 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:

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

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

• 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]

• Consciousness, Just in Time (with Caitlin Mills, Vishal Kuvar, and Zac Irving)