Jesse Graham

Jesse Graham
October 2014
University of Southern California
Department of Psychology
3620 S. McClintock Ave., SGM 501
Los Angeles, CA 90089
213-740-9535
jesse.graham@usc.edu
www.usc.edu/grahamlab
Professional Appointment
Assistant Professor, University of Southern California
Education
University of Virginia, 2004-2010:
Ph.D., Psychology, 2010
M.A., Psychology, 2007
Advisor:
Jonathan Haidt
Dissertation: “Left gut, right gut: Ideology and automatic moral reactions”
Harvard University, 1999-2002:
Master of Theological Studies, Divinity School, 2002
Advisor:
David Lamberth
Thesis:
“This world shall remain unfinished: The role of psychical research in the
psychology and philosophy of William James”
University of Chicago, 1994-1998:
B.A., Psychology, 1998
Advisor:
Amanda Woodward
Thesis:
“Humor, conceptual incongruities and cognitive development in 3- to 5year-old children”
Honors and Awards
USC General Education Course Development Award, $1,000, 2014
USC General Education Teacher of the Year Award, $2,000, 2012
Society for Experimental Social Psychology (SESP) dissertation award finalist, 2011
Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues (SPSSI) dissertation award finalist, 2011
University of Virginia Faculty Senate Dissertation Fellowship, $25,000, 2009
Morton Deutsch Award for best 2007 paper published in Social Justice Research, 2008
University of Virginia Award for Excellence in Scholarship in the Sciences, $5,000, 2008
SPSP Graduate Student Poster Award (runner up 2006, first place 2007)
Huskey Graduate Research presentation award (second place 2007, $350, first place 2009, $500)
UVA Interdisciplinary Fellowship in Education Sciences ($30,000 annually), 2007-2009
Jacob K. Javits Graduate Fellowship ($30,000 annually), 2005-2007
University of Virginia Fellow, Max Planck Institute LIFE Academy, Berlin, 2004-2006
Japan Exchange and Teaching (JET) Program Essay Competition winner, ¥10,000, 2003
Phi Beta Kappa, General and Special Honors, University of Chicago, 1998
Richter Grant for Undergraduate Research, University of Chicago, $1,000, 1997
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Grants
2014-2017. Templeton Foundation. Motivated cognitions of God: A theoretical and empirical
framework and computational model. Role: Co-PI ($295,880).
2013-2015. Haynes Foundation. A social science look at Los Angeles teen court jurors. Role:
Co-PI ($149,957).
2011-2014. Templeton Foundation. The varieties of moral strength and weakness: Using valueenvironment interactions to reduce moral hypocrisy. Role: PI ($398,838).
Publications
Beall, E., & Graham, J. (in press). Variation and levels of analysis in religion’s evolutionary
origins: Comment on Johnson, Li, & Cohen. Religion, Brain, & Behavior.
Graham, J., Meindl, P., Koleva, S., Iyer, R., & Johnson, K. M. (in press). When values and
behavior conflict: Moral pluralism and intrapersonal moral hypocrisy. Social and
Personality Psychology Compass.
Johnson, K. M., Iyer, R., Wojcik, S. P., Vaisey, S., Miles, A., Chu, V., & Graham, J. (in press).
Ideology-specific patterns of moral indifference predict intentions not to vote. Analyses of
Social Issues and Public Policy.
Scherer, A. M., Windschitl, P. D., & Graham, J. (in press). An ideological house of mirrors:
Political stereotypes as exaggerations of motivated social cognition differences. Social
Psychological and Personality Science.
Waytz, A., Iyer, R., Young, L., & Graham, J. (in press). Ideological differences in the expanse of
empathy. In Valdesolo, P. & Graham, J., (Eds.), Bridging Ideological Divides (Claremont
Series on Applied Social Psychology). New York, NY: Taylor and Francis.
Graham, J. (2014). Morality beyond the lab. Science, 345, 1242.
Jost, J. T., Hawkins, C. B., Nosek, B. A., Hennes, E. P., Stern, C., Gosling, S. D., & Graham, J.
(2014). Belief in a just God (and a just society): A system justification perspective on
religious ideology. Journal of Theoretical and Philosophical Psychology, 34, 56-81.
Koleva, S., Selterman, D., Iyer, R., Ditto, P. H., & Graham, J. (2014). The moral compass of
insecurity: Anxious and avoidant attachment predict moral judgment. Social
Psychological and Personality Science, 5, 185-194.
Meindl, P., & Graham, J. (2014). Know thy participant: The trouble with nomothetic
assumptions in moral psychology. In H. Sarkissian and J. C. Wright (Eds.), Advances in
Experimental Moral Psychology (pp. 233-252). London: Bloomsbury.
Open Science Collaboration. (2014). The Reproducibility Project: A model of large-scale
collaboration for empirical research on reproducibility. In V. Stodden, F. Leisch, & R.
Peng (Eds.), Implementing Reproducible Computational Research (A Volume in The R
Series) (pp. 299-323). New York, NY: Taylor & Francis.
Smith, I., Aquino, K., Koleva, S., & Graham, J. (2014). The moral ties that bind…even to
outgroups: The interactive effect of moral identity and the binding moral foundations.
Psychological Science, 25, 1554-1562.
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Stone, S. J., Johnson, K. M., Bell, E., Meindl, P., Smith, B. J., & Graham, J. (2014). Political
psychology. WIREs Cognitive Science, 5, 373-385.
Valdesolo, P., & Graham, J. (2014). Awe, uncertainty, and agency detection. Psychological
Science, 25, 170-178.
Van Leeuwen, F., Koenig, B. L., Graham, J., & Park, J. H. (2014). Moral concerns across the
United States: Associations with life-history variables, pathogen prevalence,
urbanization, cognitive ability, and social class. Evolution and Human Behavior, 35, 464471.
Graham, J., Iyer, R., & Meindl, P. (2013). The psychology of economic ideology: Emotion,
motivation, and moral intuition. Report for Demos/Rockefeller Foundation project New
Economic Paradigms.
Iyer, R., Motyl, M., & Graham, J. (2013). What is freedom – and does wealth cause it?
[Commentary on Van de Vliert]. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 36, 492-493.
Dehghani, M., Immordino-Yang, M. H., Graham, J., Marsella, S., Forbus, K., Ginges J., Tambe,
M. & Maheswaran, R. (2013). Computational models of moral perception, conflict, and
elevation. In Proceedings of the International Association for Computing and Philosophy
(IACAP) 2013, College Park, MD.
Graham, J. (2013). Mapping the moral maps: From alternate taxonomies to competing
predictions. Personality and Social Psychology Review, 17, 237-241.
Graham, J. (2013). Beyond economic games: A mutualistic approach to the rest of moral life.
[Commentary on Baumard, André, & Sperber]. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 36, 9192.
Graham, J., Haidt, J., Koleva, S., Motyl, M., Iyer, R., Wojcik, S., & Ditto, P. H. (2013). Moral
Foundations Theory: The pragmatic validity of moral pluralism. Advances in
Experimental Social Psychology, 47, 55-130.
Kim, E., Iyer, R., Graham, J., Chang, Y., & Maheswaran, R. (2013). Moral values from simple
game play. In A. M. Greenberg, W. G. Kennedy, & N. D. Bos (Eds.), Social Computing,
Behavioral-Cultural Modeling, and Prediction (pp. 56-64). New York: Springer.
Oishi, S., Graham, J., Kesebir, S., & Galinha, I. C. (2013). Concepts of happiness across time
and cultures. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 39, 559-577.
Graham, J., Meindl, P., & Beall, E. (2012). Integrating the streams of morality research: The case
of political ideology. Current Directions in Psychological Science, 21, 373-377.
Graham, J., Nosek, B. A., & Haidt, J. (2012). The moral stereotypes of liberals and
conservatives: Exaggeration of differences across the political spectrum. PLoS ONE, 7,
e50092.
Iyer, R., & Graham, J. (2012). Leveraging the wisdom of crowds in a data-rich utopia.
[Commentary on Nosek & Bar-Anan]. Psychological Inquiry, 23, 271-273.
Open Science Collaboration. (2012). An open, large-scale, collaborative effort to estimate the
reproducibility of psychological science. Perspectives on Psychological Science, 7, 657660.
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Baumeister, R. F., & Graham, J. (2012). Good and evil, past and future, laboratory and world. In
P. Shaver & M. Mikulincer (Eds.), The Social Psychology of Morality: Exploring the
Causes of Good and Evil (pp. 401-412). New York: APA Books.
Graham, J., & Haidt, J. (2012). Sacred values and evil adversaries: A moral foundations
approach. In P. Shaver & M. Mikulincer (Eds.), The Social Psychology of Morality:
Exploring the Causes of Good and Evil (pp. 11-31). New York: APA Books.
Graham, J., & Iyer, R. (2012). The unbearable vagueness of “essence”: Forty-four clarification
questions for Gray, Young, & Waytz. Psychological Inquiry, 23, 162-165.
Iyer, R., Koleva, S., Graham, J., Ditto, P. H., & Haidt, J. (2012). Understanding libertarian
morality: The psychological dispositions of self-identified libertarians. PLoS ONE, 7,
e42366.
Koleva, S., Graham, J., Haidt, J., Iyer, R., & Ditto, P. H. (2012). Tracing the threads: How five
moral concerns (especially Purity) help explain culture war attitudes. Journal of Research
in Personality, 46, 184-194.
Van Leeuwen, F., Park, J. H., Koenig, B. L., & Graham, J. (2012). Regional variation in
pathogen prevalence predicts endorsement of group-focused moral concerns. Evolution
and Human Behavior, 33, 429-437.
Graham, J., Koo, M., & Wilson, T. D. (2011). Conserving energy by inducing people to drive
less. Journal of Applied Social Psychology, 41, 106-118.
Graham, J., Nosek, B. A., Haidt, J., Iyer, R., Koleva, S., & Ditto, P. H. (2011). Mapping the
moral domain. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 101, 366-385.
Glenn, A. L., Koleva, S., Iyer, R., Graham, J., & Ditto, P. H. (2010). Moral identity in
psychopathy. Judgment and Decision Making, 5, 497-505.
Graham, J., & Haidt, J. (2010). Beyond beliefs: Religions bind individuals into moral
communities. Personality and Social Psychology Review, 14, 140-150.
Kesebir, S., Graham, J., & Oishi, S. (2010). A theory of human needs should be human-centered,
not animal-centered: Commentary on Kenrick et al. Perspectives on Psychological
Science, 5, 315-319.
Iyer, R., Graham, J., Koleva, S., Ditto, P. H., & Haidt, J. (2010). Beyond identity politics: Moral
psychology and the 2008 Democratic primary. Analysis of Social Issues and Public
Policy, 10, 293-306.
Nosek, B. A., Graham, J., & Hawkins, C. B. (2010). Implicit political cognition. In B. Gawronski
& B. K. Payne (Eds.), Handbook of Implicit Social Cognition: Measurement, Theory, and
Applications (pp. 548-564). New York: Guilford.
Nosek, B. A., Graham, J., Lindner, N. M., Kesebir, S., Hawkins, C. B., Hahn, C., Schmidt, K.,
Motyl, M., Joy-Gaba, J., Frazier, R., & Tenney, E. R. (2010). Cumulative and careerstage citation impact of social-personality programs and their members. Personality and
Social Psychology Bulletin, 36, 1283-1300.
Oishi, S., & Graham, J. (2010). Social ecology: Lost and found in psychological science.
Perspectives on Psychological Science, 5, 356-377.
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Glenn, A. L., Iyer, R., Graham, J., Koleva, S., & Haidt, J. (2009). Are all types of morality
compromised in psychopathy? Journal of Personality Disorders, 23, 384-398.
Graham, J., Haidt, J., & Nosek, B.A. (2009). Liberals and conservatives rely on different sets of
moral foundations. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 96, 1029-1046.
Haidt, J., & Graham, J. (2009). The planet of the Durkheimians, where community, authority and
sacredness are foundations of morality. In J. T. Jost, A. C. Kay, & H. Thorisdottir (Eds.),
Social and Psychological Bases of Ideology and System Justification (pp. 371-401). New
York: Oxford University Press.
Haidt, J., Graham, J., & Joseph, C. (2009). Above and below left-right: Ideological narratives
and moral foundations. Psychological Inquiry, 20, 110-119.
Joseph, C., Graham, J., & Haidt, J. (2009). The end of equipotentiality: A moral foundations
approach to ideology-attitude links and cognitive complexity. Psychological Inquiry, 20,
172-176.
Graham, J., Haidt, J., & Rimm-Kaufman, S. E. (2008). Ideology and intuition in moral
education. European Journal of Developmental Science, 2, 269-286.
Haidt, J., & Graham, J. (2007). When morality opposes justice: Conservatives have moral
intuitions that liberals may not recognize. Social Justice Research, 20, 98-116.
[Winner of the International Society for Justice Research Morton Deutsch award]
Graham, J. (2006). Research summary of the Uncle Dan’s Report Card pilot study. Report for
Kansas Governor Sebelius on a possible statewide moral education program.
Graham, J. (2005). From sea battles to string puppets: Leviathan, creation and theodicy in the
book of Job. Amalgam: The Virginia Interdisciplinary Review, 1, 15-25.
Manuscripts Under Revision or Review
Azarnoosh, S., Parmar, N. J., Sagi, E., Graham, J., Vaisey, S., & Dehghani, M. (2014). Moral
rhetoric as a predictor of behavior on social media. Manuscript submitted for publication.
Beall, E., & Graham, J. (2014). How power limits the role of disgust in moral judgment.
Manuscript submitted for publication.
Graham, J., Englander, Z., Morris, J. P., Hawkins, C. B., Haidt, J., & Nosek, B. A. (2014).
Warning bell: Liberals implicitly respond to group morality before rejecting it explicitly.
Manuscript submitted for publication.
Graham, J., Iyer, R., Sherman, G. D., Hawkins, C. B., & Nosek, B. (2014). Political ideology
moderates nonpolitical moral decision-making processes. Manuscript submitted for
publication.
Graham, J., & Valdesolo, P. (2015). Morality. To be included in K. Deaux & M. Snyder (Eds.),
The Oxford Handbook of Personality and Social Psychology. Oxford, UK: Oxford
University Press.
Gray, K. & Graham, J. (2015). The Atlas of Moral Psychology: Mapping Good and Evil in the
Mind. New York: Guilford.
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Koleva, S., Selterman, D., Kang, H., & Graham, J. (2014). Beyond Kohlberg vs. Gilligan:
Empathy and disgust mediate gender differences in moral judgment. Manuscript
submitted for publication.
Meindl, P., Johnson, K. M., Beall, E., & Graham, J. (2014). Altruism takes time. Manuscript
submitted for publication.
Meindl, P., Johnson, K. M., & Graham, J. (2014). The moral assumption effect: Moralization of
behaviors drives negative trait attributions. Manuscript submitted for publication.
Valdesolo, P. & Graham, J. (2015). Bridging Ideological Divides. Claremont Applied Social
Psychology Series. New York: Wiley-Blackwell.
Wojcik, S., Hovasapian, A., Graham, J., Motyl, M., & Ditto, P. H. (2014). Closing the
ideological happiness gap: Behavioral indicators of liberal and conservative happiness
from big data. Manuscript submitted for publication.
Invited Talks
Eccles School of Business, University of Utah
University of Michigan
University of California, Riverside
University of Florida
University of California, San Diego
USC Anthropology Human Condition Series
Washington University, St. Louis
Fuller Graduate School of Psychology
MURI Virtual Brownbag, University of Maryland
University of Chicago Political Psychology Colloquium
California State-Northridge Psychology Colloquium
Moral Psychology Research Group, Ohio State
Institute for Creative Technologies Human Behavior Symposium
UC-Irvine Social Psychology Colloquium
Norwegian U. of Science and Technology Colloquium
UCLA Cognitive Psychology Colloquium
SPSP Political Psychology Preconference
UCLA Social Psychology Colloquium
Columbia Business School
Herzliya Symposium on Morality (Herzliya, Israel)
Ben-Gurion University (Be’er Sheva, Israel)
Saxelab, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
University of Oregon
Booth School of Business, University of Chicago
Fall 2015
Spring 2015
Spring 2015
Spring 2015
May 2014
March 2014
December 2013
June 2013
March 2013
January 2013
December 2012
November 2012
November 2012
March 2012
March 2012
February 2012
January 2012
October 2011
May 2010
April 2010
April 2010
March 2010
January 2010
January 2010
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Georgia State University
University of Maryland
Texas A&M University
University of Southern California
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January 2010
December 2009
December 2009
December 2009
Chaired Conferences and Symposia
Beall, E., & Graham, J. (2014, February). Power from top to bottom: How the sense of power
affects judgment at the levels of culture, self, physical environment, and emotion.
Symposium to be presented at the Society for Personality and Social Psychology annual
conference, Austin, TX. Speakers: Erica Beall, Nathanael Fast, Lora Park, Andy Yap.
Meindl, P., & Graham, J. (2014, February). Automatic ethics: Exploring the relationship between
cognitive resources and prosocial behavior. Symposium to be presented at the Society
for Personality and Social Psychology annual conference, Austin, TX. Speakers: Pete
Meindl, Nathan DeWall, Matthew Wallaert, Dave Rand.
Valdesolo, P., & Graham, J. (2013, March). Bridging ideological divides. Claremont Symposium
on Applied Social Psychology, Claremont, CA. Speakers: Pete Ditto, Yoel Inbar, Ronnie
Janoff-Bulman, Lee Jussim, Jamie Napier, Linda Skitka, Adam Waytz, Robb Willer.
Graham, J. (2012, January). Political ideology and morality: New empirical intersections.
Symposium presented at the Society for Personality and Social Psychology annual
conference, San Diego, CA. Speakers: G. Scott Morgan, David Pizarro, Ronnie JanoffBulman, Jesse Graham.
Graham, J. & Gray, K. (2011, February). The power of virtue: How goodness transforms and
compels. Symposium presented at the Society for Personality and Social Psychology
annual conference, San Antonio, TX. Speakers: Kurt Gray, Benoit Monin, David Pizarro,
Dan P. McAdams.
Graham, J. & Shariff, A. F. (2009, February). Group morality. Symposium presented at the
Society for Personality and Social Psychology annual conference, Tampa, FL. Speakers:
Jonathan Haidt, Azim F. Shariff, John T. Jost, with moderated discussion.
Graham, J. & Ranganath, K. A. (2008, February). Moral head, moral heart: Dual-process
approaches to understanding moral judgment. Symposium presented at the Society for
Personality and Social Psychology annual conference, Albuquerque, NM. Speakers:
Joshua Greene, Jesse Graham, Peter H. Ditto, Kate A. Ranganath, John Darley.
Graham, J. & Ranganath, K. A. (2007, May). Implicit cognition and social justice. Symposium
presented at the Association for Psychological Science annual conference, Washington,
DC. Speakers: Linda Skitka, Kate A. Ranganath, Jesse Graham, Nilanjana Dasgupta,
Tom Tyler.
Paper Presentations
Beall, E., & Graham, J. (2014, February). Powerful guts: Power limits the role of disgust in
moral judgment. Presented to the Society for Personality and Social Psychology annual
conference, Austin, TX.
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Meindl, P., Johnson, K. M., Beall, E., & Graham, J. (2014, February). Altruism takes time.
Presented to the Society for Personality and Social Psychology annual conference,
Austin, TX.
Heddy, B. C., Sinatra, G. M., Danielson, R. W. & Graham, J. (2013, July). Conceptual change
and attitude change: A dynamic interplay. Presented to the American Psychological
Association annual conference, Honolulu, HI.
Graham, J. (2012, January). Political ideology, moral concerns, and moral decision-making: Two
findings and a question. Presented to the Society for Personality and Social Psychology
annual conference, San Diego, CA.
Graham, J., & Cushman, F. (2011, October). Judgments of character across different moral
domains. Presented to the Society for Experimental Social Psychology annual
conference, Washington, DC.
Graham, J., Haidt, J., & Motyl, M. S. (2010, January). Around the maypole: Religions foster
group-focused morality. Presented to the Society for Personality and Social Psychology
annual conference, Las Vegas, NV.
Graham, J., Koleva, S., Haidt, J., Nosek, B. A., Iyer, R. & Ditto, P. H. (2008, August). Culture
war casualties: Moral foundation endorsement predicts intergroup attitudes. Presented to
the American Psychology Association annual conference, Boston, MA.
Graham, J., Haidt, J. & Nosek, B. A. (2008, February). The persistence of the gut: Moral
carryover and political ideology. Presented to the Society for Personality and Social
Psychology annual conference, Albuquerque, NM.
Graham, J., Haidt, J. & Nosek, B. A. (2007, July). Left gut, right gut: Moral intuitions and
political ideology. Presented to the International Society for Political Psychology annual
conference, Portland, OR.
Graham, J., Haidt, J. & Nosek, B. A. (2007, May). Moral intuitions can oppose social justice.
Presented to the Association for Psychological Science annual conference, Washington,
DC.
Graham, J. (2007, March). Can system justification be moral? Presented to the Psychology and
Social Justice conference, New York University, New York, NY.
Graham, J. (2006, April). Political ideology and the foundations of morality. Presented to the
Spring 2006 LIFE Academy, Max Planck Institute, Berlin, Germany.
Poster Presentations
Johnson, K. M., Iyer, R., Wojcik, S. P., Vaisey, S., Miles, A., Chu, V., & Graham, J. (2014,
February). Ideology-specific patterns of moral indifference predict intentions not to vote.
Poster presented at the Society for Personality and Social Psychology annual meeting,
Austin, TX.
Beall, E., Meindl, P., Iyer, R., Monterosso, J., Graham, J., Schwarz, B. (2013, February).
Biology or bad character? Brain scan images increase determinism and decrease moral
attributions for criminal acts. Poster presented at the Society for Personality and Social
Psychology annual meeting, New Orleans, LA.
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Meindl, P., Beall, E., Graham, J. (2013, February). A new way of measuring moral motivation.
Poster presented at the Society for Personality and Social Psychology annual meeting,
New Orleans, LA.
Graham, J. (2007, November). Evaluation of the “Uncle Dan’s Report Card” moral education
program. Poster presented at the Association for Moral Education annual meeting, New
York, NY.
Graham, J., Nosek, B. A. & Haidt, J. (2007, January). Moral theories of liberals and
conservatives: Exaggeration of differences across the political divide. Poster presented at
the Society for Personality and Social Psychology annual meeting, Memphis, TN.
[winner of the SPSP Graduate Student Poster Award]
Graham, J., Nosek, B. A. & Haidt, J. (2006, January). Explicit and implicit moral judgments of
liberals and conservatives: How deep is the “moral values” divide? Poster presented at
the Society for Personality and Social Psychology annual meeting, Palm Springs, CA.
[runner up, SPSP Graduate Student Poster Award]
Teaching
University of Southern California courses:
Advanced Social Psychology: Moral, Political, and Religious Conviction
Advanced Social Psychology: Ideology and Morality
Advanced Social Psychology: Empirical Approaches to the Meaning of Life
Formation and Change of Attitudes
The Science of Happiness
University of Southern California advisees:
Erica Beall, Ph.D. student, 2011-present
Peter Meindl, Ph.D. student, 2011-present
Kate Johnson, Ph.D. student, 2012-present
Antonio Mendez, M.A. student, 2010-2011
Lauren March, B.A. student, 2011-2012
Susanna Stone, B.A. student, 2010-2013
Carolyn Windler, B.A. student, 2013-2015
Advisor for undergraduate Distinguished Majors Program thesis projects, UVA, 2006-2009
Guest lecturer for courses at Amherst College, Boston College, Claremont McKenna, Kellogg
School of Management, University of Iowa, University of North Carolina, and University
of Southern California, 2010-present
University of Virginia lectures:
Psychology of Happiness (guest lecturer on humor, summer 2005)
Moral Politics and Terrorism (guest lecturer on moral extremes, fall 2007, spring 2008)
Implicit Social Cognition (guest lecturer on ideology, spring 2008)
Instructor, UVA Psychology Department Writing Workshop, 2009
University of Virginia Teaching Fellowships:
Introduction to Social Psychology (Prof. Robyn Mallett, fall 2004)
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General Psychology (Prof. Chad Dodson, spring 2005)
Introduction to Social Psychology (Prof. Shige Oishi, spring 2006)
Introduction to Social Psychology (Prof. Tim Wilson, fall 2006)
Research Methods (Prof. Nancy Weinfield, fall 2006)
Japan Exchange and Teaching (JET) Program English Teacher, 2002-2003
Harvard University Teaching Fellowships:
Pragmatism (Profs. Cornel West and Hilary Putnam, spring 2000)
Thinking about Thinking (Profs. Alan Dershowitz and Stephen J. Gould, spring 2002)
University of Chicago Student Teacher (fourth grade) and Inner-City Tutor, 1998-1999
Reviewing
Editorial Board member, Social Psychological and Personality Science, 2011-present
Grant proposal reviewer for National Science Foundation’s Decision, Risk and Management
Science Program, 2011-present
Grant proposal reviewer for National Science Foundation’s Brain and Cognitive Sciences
Program, 2012-present
Grant proposal reviewer for Time-Sharing Experiments for the Social Sciences (TESS), 2011present
Grant proposal reviewer for John Templeton Foundation, Human Sciences Division, 2012present
Book prospectus reviewer: Oxford University Press, Sage
Symposium submission reviewer for the Society for Personality and Social Psychology annual
conference, 2014-present
Ad hoc reviewer:
Acta Psychologica
American Journal of Political Science
Analyses of Social Issues and Public Policy
Annals of Internal Medicine
Basic and Applied Social Psychology
Behavioral and Brain Sciences
Cognition
Cognition and Emotion
Cognitive Science
Emotion
European Journal of Social Psychology
Evolution and Human Behavior
Frontiers in Psychology
Group Processes & Intergroup Relations
International Journal for the Psychology of
Religion
Journal of Experimental Psychology:
General
Journal of Experimental Social Psychology
Journal of Medical Ethics
Journal of Moral Education
Journal of Personality and Social
Psychology: Attitudes and Social
Cognition
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Journal of Personality and Social
Psychology: Interpersonal Relations and
Group Processes
Journal of Personality and Social
Psychology: Personality Processes and
Individual Differences
Journal of Politics
Journal of Research in Personality
Media Psychology
Nature
Organizational Behavior and Human
Decision Processes
Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin
Personality and Social Psychology Review
Perspectives on Psychological Science
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Philosophical Psychology
PLoS ONE
Political Psychology
Proceedings of the National Academy of
Sciences
Psychological Science
Science
Social and Personality Psychology Compass
Social Cognition
Social Justice Research
Social Psychological and Personality
Science
Social Science Quarterly
Trends in Cognitive Sciences
Press Coverage
“It’s Official: Religion Doesn’t Make You More Moral” by Elizabeth Picciuto, The Daily Beast,
September 23, 2014.
“Yes, I’m a Good Person. But Did You Hear About Her?” by Tom Jacobs, Pacific Standard,
September 11, 2014.
“Morality Can Trump Tribalism” by Tom Jacobs, Pacific Standard, June 13, 2014.
“How to Win Your Next Political Argument” by Jesse Singal, New York Magazine, May 13,
2014.
“Does Being Anxious Make Us More Moral?” by Lisa Miller, New York Magazine, May 13,
2014.
“How Many Moralities Are There?” interview with David Pizarro and Tamler Sommers, Very
Bad Wizards podcast, February 3, 2014.
“Awe Increases Religious Belief” by Matthew Hutson, Huffington Post, December 13, 2013.
“Awe Boosts Belief in the Supernatural, Study Suggests” by Amanda Chan, Huffington Post,
November 28, 2013.
“Why There Are No Atheists at the Grand Canyon” by Jeffrey Kluger, Time, November 27,
2013.
“American Audiences More Likely to Believe in God after Watching BBC’s Planet Earth, Study
Shows” by Adam Withnall, The Independent, November 27, 2013.
“How the Grand Canyon Makes Us Religious: Natural Wonders Increase Our Tendency to
Believe in God and the Supernatural” by Ted Thornhill, The Daily Mail, November 26, 2013.
“‘Overly Attached Girlfriend’ Worried About Purity? Attachment Styles Predict Moral
Concerns” by Eric W. Dolan, Raw Story, June 25, 2013.
“How Science Can Predict Where You Stand on Keystone XL” by Chris Mooney, Mother Jones,
April 2013.
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“What I Find Offensive Is Not That They Plagiarized Us, It’s That They Did it So Badly” by
Ivan Oransky, Retraction Watch, March 7, 2013.
“Morality Matters” by C. Nathan DeWall and David G. Myers, APS Observer, February 2013.
“Why Do We Tend to Exaggerate How Much Liberals and Conservatives Differ Morally?”
Science and Religion Today, January 8, 2013.
“Exageramos la Moral de los Contrarios” by Luis Gonzalez de Alba, Milenio, January 7, 2013.
“Liberals, Conservatives Exaggerate Their Differences, Scientists Say” by Stephanie Pappas,
Huffington Post, December 13, 2012.
“On Moral Values, Liberals More Prone to Stereotype than Conservatives” by Tom Jacobs,
Salon, December 13, 2012.
“We Are More Alike Than We Think” by Kevin Drum, Mother Jones, December 13, 2012.
“Post-election, Republicans Consider Rebranding Message, Demographics” by Melissa Daniels,
Pennsylvania Independent, November 20, 2012.
“All About Libertarians: Group’s Mystique Increases as Profile Is Raised” by Emily Esfahani
Smith, Washington Times, October 16, 2012.
“Perpetuating ‘Facts’ via Facebook,” interview with Steve Kastenbaum, CNN Radio, August 22,
2012.
“How to Save Energy by Driving Less” by Yuliya Chernova, The Wall Street Journal, June 18,
2012.
“Finding the Limits of Empathy” by Thomas Edsall, The New York Times, April 29, 2012.
“How to Be a Smart Campaign Consumer” by Jesse Singal, The Daily Beast, April 21, 2012.
“Politics, Odors and Soap” by Nicholas D. Kristof, The New York Times, March 21, 2012.
“Conservatives are from Mars, Liberals are from Venus” by Thomas Edsall, The Atlantic
Monthly, February 2012.
“The Moral Compass Issue,” VICE Magazine, December 2011.
“The Psychology of Partisanship,” interview with Gary Spieker, ThinkUSC, December 2011.
“Decisions, Decisions” by Pamela J. Johnson, Dornsife Life, Fall 2011/Winter 2012.
“Mapping the Moral Domain” by Eddie North-Hagar, USC Chronicle, November 7, 2011.
“Political – or politicized? – psychology” by Lena Groeger, ScienceLine, March 8, 2011.
“A Reason to Believe” by Beth Azar, APA Monitor, December 2010.
“The Science of Libertarian Morality,” by Ronald Bailey, Reason, November 2, 2010.
“The Morality of Liberals and Conservatives,” interview with Luke Muehlhauser on the
Conversations from the Pale Blue Dot podcast, June 23, 2010.
“Political Science: The Psychological Differences in the U.S.’s Red-Blue Divide” by Michael
Shermer, Scientific American, November 22, 2009.
“A Community Divided,” interview on MiND-TV (WYBE, Philadelphia), September 17, 2009.
“Your Moral High Ground,” Utne Reader, September-October 2009.
“Liberals and Conservatives,” interview on the Ron Reagan Show, Air America, May 29, 2009.
“Human Nature: The Remix” by Dan Jones, Nature, February 12, 2009.
“A New Direction in Psychology and Politics” by Evan R. Goldstein, The Chronicle of Higher
Education, August 15, 2008.
Jesse Graham
Curriculum Vitæ, page 13
“The Emerging Moral Psychology” by Dan Jones, Prospect, April 12, 2008.
“The Moral Instinct” by Steven Pinker, The New York Times, January 13, 2008.
“Is ‘Do Unto Others’ Written Into Our Genes?” by Nicholas Wade, The New York Times,
September 18, 2007.
“The Depths of Disgust” by Dan Jones, Nature, July 14, 2007.
“Original Spin,” interview on The Brian Lehrer Show, WNYC (New York City public radio),
February 23, 2007.
“Across the Great Divide: Investigating Links Between Personality and Politics” by Patricia
Cohen, The New York Times, February 12, 2007.
Professional Associations
Moral Psychology Research Group
Association for Psychological Science
Society for Personality and Social Psychology
International Society of Political Psychology
International Society for Justice Research
LIFE Academy, Max Planck Institute, Berlin
Research Interests
Morality; Ideology; Implicit Social Cognition; Ethics; Political Psychology; Religious Beliefs;
Cultural and Individual Differences in Attitudes and Values; Social Justice