Yochanan Bigman
The Hebrew University Business School
Research Interests: Morality, Ethics, Social Cognition of Robots
PUBLICATIONS
See also my Google Scholar and my Research Gate profiles.
Paulo, N., Kirchmair, L. & Bigman, Y. E. (2025). Impartiality Preferences in Sacrificial Moral Dilemmas Involving Autonomous Vehicles. Paper accepted for publication in Analysis.
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Bigman, Y. E., Gray, K. & Choshen-Hillel, S. (2025). Morally motivated? People use self-sacrifice as a cue for moral character. Paper accepted for publication in Decision.
Arnestad, M. *, Meyers, S. s*, Gray, K. & Bigman, Y. E. (2024). The existence of manual mode increases human blame for AI mistakes. Cognition. *Equal contribution. sStudent led.
Vishkin, A., Bigman, Y. E. & Ginges, J. (2024). Belief in the creation in the image of god violates the individualizing-binding dichotomy of moral foundations. Paper accepted for publication at Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology.
Puryear, C., Kubin, E., Schein, C., Bigman, Y. E., Ekstorm, P. & Gray, K. (2024). People Believe Political Opponents Accept Blatant Moral Wrongs, Fueling Partisan Divides. Manuscript accepted for publication at PNAS: Nexus.
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Surdel, N., Bigman, Y. E., Shen, X., Lee., W., Jung, M. F. & Ferguson, J. M. (2024). Judging robot ability: how people form implicit and explicit impressions of robot competence. Manuscript accepted for publication at Journal of Experimental Psychology: General.
Bigman, Y. E., Surdel, N., & Ferguson, M. (2023). Trait attribution explains human-robot interactions. Behavioral and Brain Sciences. 46, E23.
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Bigman, Y.E., Wilson, D., Arnestad, M., Waytz, A., & Gray, K. (2023). Algorithmic discrimination causes less moral outrage than human discrimination. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General. 152, (1), 4-27. [PDF]
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Carlson, R*., Bigman, Y. E.*, Gray, K., Ferguson, M. & Crockett, M. (2022). How inferred motives shape moral judgments. Nature Reviews: Psychology. 1, 468-478. *Equal contribution.
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Yam, K. C., Bigman, Y. E., & Gray, K. (2021). Reducing the uncanny valley by dehumanizing humanoid robots. Computers in Human Behavior. 125, 1-11. [PDF]
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Bigman, Y. E., Yam, K. C., Marciano, D., Reynolds, S., Gray, K. (2021). Threat of racial and economic inequality increases preference for algorithm decision-making. Computers in Human Behavior. 122, 1-11. [PDF]
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Wiese, E., Weis, P., Bigman, Y. E., Kapsaskis, K., & Gray, K. (2022). It’s a match: Task assignment in human-robot collaboration depends on mind perception. International Journal of Social Robotics. 14, 141-148. [PDF]
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Yam, K. C., Bigman, Y. E., Tang, P. Gray, K., Ilies, R., & de Cremer, D. (2021). Robots at work: People prefer—and forgive—service robots with perceived feelings. Journal of Applied Psychology, 106 (10), 1557-1572.
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Kachanoff, F. J., Bigman, Y. E., Kapsaskis, K., & Gray, K. (2021). Measuring Realistic and Symbolic Threats of COVID-19 and Their Unique Impacts of Well-Being and Adherence to Public Health Behavior. Social Psychological and Personality Science, 12 (5), 603-616. [PDF]
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Bigman, Y. E., & Gray, K. (2020). Life and death decisions of autonomous vehicles. Nature, 579 (7797), E1-E2. [PDF]
Bigman, Y. E., Waytz, A., Alterovitz, R., & Gray, K. (2019). Holding robots responsible: The elements of machine morality. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 23 (5), 365-368. [PDF]
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Tamir, M., Halperin, E., Porat, R., Bigman, Y. E., & Hasson, Y. (2019). When there's a will, there's a way: Disentangling the effects of goals and means in emotion regulation. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 116 (5), 795-816. [PDF]
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Bigman, Y. E. & Gray, K. (2018). People are averse to machines making moral decisions. Cognition, 181, 21-34. [PDF]
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Tamir, M. & Bigman, Y. E. (2018). Expectations influence how emotions shape behavior. Emotion, 18 (1), 15-25. [PDF]
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Bigman, Y. E., Sheppes, G., & Tamir, M. (2017). When less is more: Effects of the availability of strategic options on regulating negative emotions. Emotion, 17 (6), 993-1006. [PDF]
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Gutentag, T, Halperin, E., Porat, R., Bigman, Y. E., & Tamir, M. (2017). Successful emotion regulation requires both conviction and skill: Beliefs about the controllability of emotions, reappraisal and regulation success. Cognition and Emotion, 31 (6), 1225-1233. [PDF]
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Bigman, Y. E., & Tamir, M. (2016). The road to heaven is paved with effort: Perceived effort amplifies moral judgment. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 145, 1654-1669. [PDF]
Bigman, Y. E., Mauss, I. B., Gross J. J., & Tamir, M. (2016). Yes I can: Expected success promotes actual success in emotion regulation. Cognition and Emotion, 30, 1380-1387. [PDF]
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Vishkin, A., Bigman, Y. E., Porat, R., Solak, N., Halperin, E., & Tamir, M. (2016). God rest our hearts: Religiosity and cognitive reappraisal. Emotion, 16, 252-262. [PDF]
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Tamir, M., Bigman, Y. E., Rhodes, E., Salerno, J., & Schreier, J. (2015). An expectancy-value model of emotion regulation: Implications for motivation, emotional experience, and decision making. Emotion, 15, 90-103. [PDF]