Publications

Journal Articles

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52 Lucas, S., Douglas, T., & Faber, N. S. (in press). How moral bioenhancement affects perceived praiseworthiness. Bioethics. 
51 McGuire, L., Palmer, S. B., & Faber, N. S. (2023).  The development of speciesism: Age-related differences in the moral view of animals. Social Psychological and Personality Science, 14, 228-237. doi: 10.1177/19485506221086182
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50 Sattler, S., Häusser, J. A., & Faber, N. S. (2023). Working with a sleep-deprived or a cognitively enhanced team member compromises motivation to contribute to group performance. European Journal of Social Psychology, 00, 1–14. https://doi.org/10.1002/ejsp.2971
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49 McGuire, L., Fry, E., Palmer, S. B., & Faber, N. S. (2023).  Age-related differences in reasoning about the acceptability of eating animals. Social Development, 32, 690-703. doi: 10.1111/sode.12655
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48 *Caviola, L., *Schubert, S., Kahane, G., & Faber, N. S. (2022). Humans first: Why people value animals less than humans. Cognition, 225, 105139. doi: 10.1016/j.cognition.2022.105139
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47 Wittmann, M. K., Faber, N. S., & Lamm, C. (2022). A neuroscientific perspective on the computational theory of social groups (OPC). Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 45, E126. doi:10.1017/S0140525X2100128X
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46 Faber, N. S., & Häusser, J. A. (2022). Why stress and hunger both increase and decrease prosocial behaviour. Current Opinion in Psychology, 44, 49-57. doi: 10.1016/j.copsyc.2021.08.023
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45 Gross, J., Faber, N. S., Kappes, A., *Nussberger, A.-M., Cowen, P., Browning, M., Kahane, G., Savulescu, J., Crockett, M., & De Dreu, C. K. W. (2021). When Helping is Risky: The Behavioral and Neurobiological Tradeoff of Social and Risk Preferences. Psychological Science, 32, 1842-1855. doi: 10.1177/09567976211015942
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44 *Caviola, L., Kahane, G., *Everett, J. A. C., *Teperman, E., Savulescu, J., & Faber, N. S. (2021). Utilitarianism for animals, Kantianism for people? Harming animals and humans for the greater good. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 150, 1008-1039. doi:10.1037/xge0000988 
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43 Veit, W., Earp, B. D., Faber, N. S., Bostrom, N., Caouette, J., Mannino, A., Caviola, L., Sandberg, A., & Savulescu, J. (2020). Recognizing the Diversity of Cognitive Enhancements. American Journal of Bioethics: Neuroscience, 11, 250-253. doi: 10.1080/21507740.2020.1830878
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42 *Caviola, L., *Schubert, S., *Teperman, E., Moss, D., Greenberg, S., & Faber, N. S. (2020). Donors vastly underestimate differences in charities’ effectiveness. Judgment and Decision Making, 15, 509-516.
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41 Schweda, A., Faber, N. S., Crockett, M. J., & Kalenscher, T. (2019). The effects of psychosocial stress on intergroup resource allocation. Scientific Reports, 9, 18620. doi:10.1038/s41598-019-54954-w
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40 Häusser, J. A., Stahlecker, C., Mojzisch, A., Leder, J., Van Lange, P. A. M., & Faber, N. S. (2019). Acute hunger does not always undermine prosociality. Nature Communications, 10, 4733. doi:10.1038/s41467-019-12579-7
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39 *Schubert, S., *Caviola, L., & Faber, N. S. (2019). The psychology of existential risk: Moral judgments about human extinction. Scientific Reports, 9, 15100. doi:10.1038/s41598-019-50145-9
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38 Giubilini, A., *Caviola, L., Maslen, H., Douglas, T., *Nussberger, A.-M., Faber, N. S., Vanderslott, S., Loving, S., Harrison, M., & Savulescu, J. (2019). Nudging immunity: the case for opt out vaccination of children in school and day care. Health Care Ethics Committee Forum, 31, 325. doi: 10.1007/s10730-019-09383-7
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37 *Everett, J. A. C., *Caviola, L., Savulescu, J., & Faber, N. S. (2019). Speciesism, generalized prejudice, and perceptions of prejudiced others. Group Processes and Intergroup Relations, 22, 785–803. doi: 10.1177/1368430218816962
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36 *Caviola, L., *Everett, J. A. C., & Faber, N. S. (2019). The moral standing of animals: Towards a psychology of speciesism. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 116, 1011-1029. doi: 10.1037/pspp0000182
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35 *Dao, B., Giubilini, A., Douglas, T., Savulescu, J., Selgelid, M., & Faber, N. S. (2019) Impartiality and infectious disease: Prioritizing individuals versus the collective in antibiotic prescription. American Journal of Bioethics: Empirical Bioethics, 10, 63-69. doi: 10.1080/23294515.2019.1576799
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34 *Everett, J. A. C., Faber, N. S., Savulescu, J., & Crockett, M. J. (2018). The costs of being consequentialist: Social inference from instrumental harm and impartial beneficence. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 79, 200-216. doi: 10.1016/j.jesp.2018.07.004
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33 Kappes, A., *Nussberger, A.-M., Faber, N. S., Kahane, G., Savulescu, J., & Crockett, M. J. (2018). Uncertainty about the impact of social decisions increases prosocial behaviour. Nature Human Behavior, 2, 573-580. doi: 10.1038/s41562-018-0372-x
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32 Youssef, F., Bachew, R., Bissessar, S., Crockett, M. J., & Faber, N. S. (2018). Sex differences in the effects of acute stress on behavior in the ultimatum game. Psychoneuroendocrinology, 96, 126-131. doi: 10.1016/j.psyneuen.2018.06.012
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31 Kahane, G., *Everett, J. A. C., Earp, B. D., *Caviola, L., Faber, N. S., Crockett, M. J., & Savulescu, J. (2018). Beyond sacrificial harm: A two-dimensional model of utilitarian psychology. Psychological Review, 125, 131-164. doi: 10.1037/rev0000093
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30 Kappes, A., Faber, N. S., Kahane, G., Savulescu, J., & Crockett, M. J. (2018). Concern for others leads to vicarious optimism. Psychological Science, 29, 379 – 389. doi: 10.1177/0956797617737129
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29 Faber, N. S., Häusser, J. A., & Kerr, N. L. (2017). Sleep deprivation impairs and caffeine enhances my performance, but not always our performance: How acting in a group can change the effects of impairments and enhancements. Personality and Social Psychology Review, 21, 3-28. doi: 10.1177/1088868315609487
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28 Wittmann, M. K., Kolling, N., Faber, N. S., Scholl, J., Nelissen, N., & Rushworth, M. F. S. (2016). Self-other-mergence in frontal cortex during cooperation and competition. Neuron, 91, 482–493. doi: 10.1016/j.neuron.2016.06.022
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27 Faber, N. S., Savulescu, J., & Van Lange, P. A. M. (2016). Reputational concerns as a general determinant of group functioning (OPC). Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 39. doi: 10.1017/S0140525X15001363
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26 Häusser, J. A., Leder, J., Ketturat, C., Dresler, M., & Faber, N. S. (2016). Sleep deprivation and advice taking. Scientific Reports, 6, 24386. doi: 10.1038/srep24386
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25 Faber, N. S., Savulescu, J., & Douglas, T. (2016). Why is cognitive enhancement deemed unacceptable? The role of fairness, deservingness, and hollow achievements. Frontiers in Psychology, 7, 232. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2016.00232
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24 *Everett, J. A. C., *Caviola, L., Kahane, G., Savulescu, J., & Faber, N. S. (2015). Doing good by doing nothing? The role of social norms in explaining default effects in altruistic contexts. European Journal of Social Psychology, 45, 230-241. doi: 10.1002/ejsp.2080
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 23 *Caviola, L., & Faber, N. S. (2015) Pills or push-ups? Effectiveness and public perception of pharmacological and non-pharmacological cognitive enhancement. Frontiers in Psychology, 6, 1852. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2015.01852
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22 *Everett, J. A. C., Faber, N. S., Crockett, M. J., & De Dreu, C. K. W. (2015) Economic games and social neuroscience methods can help elucidate the psychology of parochial altruism. Frontiers in Psychology, 6, 861. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2015.00861
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21 Wölfer, R., Faber, N. S., & Hewstone, M. (2015). Social network analysis in the science of groups. Group Dynamics: Theory, Research, and Practice, 19, 45-61. doi: 10.1037/gdn0000021
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20 *Everett, J. A. C., Faber, N. S., & Crockett, M. J. (2015). The influence of social preferences and reputational concerns on intergroup prosocial behaviour in gains and losses contexts. Royal Society Open Science, 2, 150546. doi: 10.1098/rsos.150546
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19 Faber, N. S., Douglas, T., *Heise, F., & Hewstone, M. (2015). Cognitive enhancement and motivation enhancement – An empirical comparison of intuitive judgments. American Journal of Bioethics: Neuroscience, 13, 18-20. doi: 10.1080/21507740.2014.991847
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18 *Everett, J. A. C., Faber, N. S., & Crockett, M. J. (2015). Preferences and beliefs in ingroup favoritism. Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience, 9, 15. doi: 10.3389/fnbeh.2015.00015
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17 *Caviola, L., *Mannino, A., Savulescu, J., & Faulmüller, N. (2014). Cognitive biases can affect moral intuitions about cognitive enhancement. Frontiers in Systems Neuroscience, 8, 195. doi: 10.3389/fnsys.2014.00195
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16 Mojzisch, A., Kerschreiter, R., Faulmüller, N., Vogelgesang, F., & Schulz-Hardt, S. (2014). The consistency principle in interpersonal communication: Consequences of preference confirmation and disconfirmation in collective decision-making. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 106, 961-977. doi: 10.1037/a0036338
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15 *Caviola, L., & Faulmüller, N. (2014). Moral hypocrisy in economic games — How prosocial behavior is shaped by social expectations. Frontiers in Psychology, 5, 897. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2014.00897
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14 Maslen, H., Faulmüller, N., & Savulescu, J. (2014). Pharmacological cognitive enhancement – How neuroscientific research could advance ethical debate. Frontiers in Systems Neuroscience, 8, 107. doi: 10.3389/fnsys.2014.00107
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13 *Caviola, L., Faulmüller, N., *Everett, J. A. C., Savulescu, J., & Kahane, G. (2014). The evaluability bias in charitable giving: Saving administration costs or saving lives? Judgment and Decision Making, 9, 303-315.
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12 *Schelle, K. J., Faulmüller, N., *Caviola, L., & Hewstone, M. (2014). Attitudes towards pharmacological cognitive enhancement – a review. Frontiers in Systems Neuroscience, 8, 53. doi: 10.3389/fnsys.2014.00053
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11 Santoni de Sio, F., Faulmüller, N., & Vincent, N. A. (2014). How cognitive enhancement can change our duties. Frontiers in Systems Neuroscience, 8, 131. doi: 10.3389/fnsys.2014.00131
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10 Faulmüller, N., Maslen, H., & Santoni de Sio, F. (2013). The indirect psychological costs of cognitive enhancement. The American Journal of Bioethics, 13, 45-47. doi: 10.1080/15265161.2013.794880
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9 Faulmüller, N., Mojzisch, A., Kerschreiter, R., & Schulz-Hardt, S. (2012). Do you want to convince me or to be understood? Preference-consistent information sharing and its motivational determinants. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 38, 1684–1696. doi: 10.1177/0146167212458707
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8 Santoni de Sio, F., Maslen, H., & Faulmüller, N. (2012). The necessity of objective standards for moral enhancement. American Journal of Bioethics: Neuroscience, 3, 15-16. doi: 10.1080/21507740.2012.721855
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7 Faulmüller, N., Kerschreiter, R., Mojzisch, A., & Schulz-Hardt, S. (2010). Beyond group-level explanations for the failure of groups to solve hidden profiles: The individual preference effect revisited. Group Processes and Intergroup Relations, 13, 653–671. doi: 10.1177/1368430210369143
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6 Frey, D., Faulmüller, N., Winkler, M., & Wendt, M. (2012). Verhaltensregeln als Voraussetzung zur Realisierung moralisch-ethischer Werte in Firmen (Behavioral rules as a requirement for moral-ethical values in companies). German Journal of Human Resource Management: Zeitschrift für Personalforschung, 16, 135-155. doi: 10.1177/239700220201600202
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Book Chapters & Peer-reviewed Articles for a General Audience

5 Chew, C., Douglas, T., & Faber, N. S. (2018). Biological interventions for crime prevention. In D. Birks & T. Douglas (Eds.), Treatment for Crime: Philosophical Essays on Neurointerventions in Criminal Justice (pp. 11-43). Oxford: Oxford University Press. doi: 10.1093/oso/9780198758617.003.0002
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4 *New, R., Savulescu, J., & Faber, N. S. (2018). Cooperation in social dilemmas: How can psychology help to meet climate change goals? In-Mind Magazine, 35.
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3 Santoni de Sio, F., Faber, N. S., Savulescu, J., & Vincent, N. A. (2016). Why less praise for enhanced performance? Moving beyond responsibility-shifting, authenticity, and cheating, towards a nature-of-activities approach. In F. Jotterand & V. Dubljevic (Eds.), Cognitive Enhancement: Ethical and Policy Implications in International Perspectives (pp. 27-41). Oxford: Oxford University Press. doi: 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199396818.003.0003
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2 Maslen, H., Santoni de Sio, F., & Faber, N. S. (2015). With cognitive enhancement comes great responsibility?. In B.-J. Koops, I. Oosterlaken, H. Romijn, T. Swierstra, & J. van den Hoven (Eds.), Responsible Innovation 2 – Concepts, Approaches, and Applications (pp. 121-138). Cham (Switzerland): Springer International Publishing. doi: 10.1007/978-3-319-17308-5_7
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1 *Caviola, L., & Faber, N. S. (2014). How stress influences our morality. In-Mind Magazine, 23.
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