Publications | r. w. carlson

Ryan Carlson, M. J. Crockett (2026). The pitfalls of pay-to-play morality.

Ryan Carlson (2026). Can AI teach dialogue skills to college students?. Constructive Dialogue Institute White Paper.

Ryan Carlson, Yoonseo Zoh, Adam Morris, M. J. Crockett (2025). Quantifying accuracy and bias in motive introspection. PsyArXiv.

David E. Melnikoff, Ryan Carlson, Paul E. Stillman (2025). Optimal task representations for engagement, enjoyment, and performance. OSF Preprints.

Adam Morris, Ryan Carlson, Hedy Kober, M. J. Crockett (2025). Introspective access to value-based choice processes. Nature Communications.

Ryan Carlson, Ayelet Fishbach (2024). Learning from failure. Motivation Science.

Isaac Davis, Ryan Carlson, Yarrow Dunham, Jullian Jara-Ettinger (2023). Identifying social partners through indirect prosociality: A computational account. Cognition.

Ryan Carlson, Y. E. Bigman, K. Gray, M. J. Ferguson, M. J. Crockett (2022). How inferred motives shape moral judgements. Nature Reviews Psychology.

E. Weisz, P. Chen, D. C. Ong, Ryan Carlson, M. D. Clark, J. Zaki (2022). A brief intervention to motivate empathy in middle school. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General.

David E. Melnikoff, Ryan Carlson, Paul E. Stillman (2022). A computational theory of the subjective experience of flow. Nature Communications.

Ryan Carlson, Chance Adkins, Molly J. Crockett, Margaret S. Clark (2022). Psychological selfishness. Perspectives on Psychological Science.

E. Weisz, D. C. Ong, Ryan Carlson, J. Zaki (2020). Building empathy through motivation-based interventions. Emotion.

Ryan Carlson, M. A. Maréchal, B. Oud, E. Fehr, M. J. Crockett (2020). Motivated misremembering of selfish decisions. Nature Communications.

Ryan Carlson, M. J. Crockett (2018). The lateral prefrontal cortex and moral goal pursuit. Current Opinion in Psychology.

S. Morelli, Y. C. Leong, Ryan Carlson, M. Kullar, J. Zaki (2018). Neural detection of socially valued community members. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

Ryan Carlson, J. Zaki (2018). Good deeds gone bad: Lay theories of altruism and selfishness. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology.

Ryan Carlson, L. B. Aknin, M. Liotti (2016). When is giving an impulse? An ERP study of intuitive prosocial behavior. Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience.