2025
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De Freitas, J. (in press). Why people resist embracing AI. Harvard Business Review (magazine).
2024
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De Freitas, J., & Cohen, G. (in press). Disclosure, humanizing, and contextual vulnerability of generative AI chatbots. New England Journal of Medicine AI.
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De Freitas, J., & Rips, L. (in press). Is personal identity intransitive? Journal of Experimental Psychology: General.
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Hermann, E., De Freitas, J., & Puntoni, S. (in press). Reducing prejudice with counter-stereotypical AI. Consumer Psychology Review.
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De Freitas, J. (2024). Can AI companions help cure the loneliness epidemic? The Wall Street Journal.
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De Freitas, J. (2024). Do ‘Black Individuals’ really display no linguistic markers of depression? Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
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De Freitas, J., & Cohen, G. (2024). The health risks of generative AI-based wellness apps. Nature Medicine.
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Agarwal, S., De Freitas, J., & Ragnhildstveit, A., Morewedge, C. (2024). Acceptance of automated vehicles is lower for self than others. Journal of the Association for Consumer Research.
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Valenzuela, A., Puntoni, S., Hoffman, D., Castelo, N., De Freitas, J., Dietvorst, B., Hildebrand, C., Huh, Y. E., Meyer, R., Sweeney, M., Talaifar, S., Tomaino, G., Wertenbroch, K. (2024) How artificial intelligence constrains the human experience. Journal of the Association for Consumer Research.
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De Freitas, J.*, & Hafri, A.* (2024). Moral thin-slicing: Forming moral impressions from a brief glance. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology. [supp. materials].
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De Freitas, J., & Ofek, E. (2024). How AI can power brand management. Harvard Business Review (magazine).
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De Freitas, J., Agarwal, S., Morewedge, C. (2024) How automakers can address resistance to self-driving cars. Harvard Business Review (digital).
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Nam, J., Balakrishnan, M., De Freitas, J., Brooks, A. W. (2024). Research: speed matters when companies respond to social issues. Harvard Business Review (digital).
2023
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De Freitas, J., Agarwal, S., Schmitt, B., & Haslam, N. (2023). Psychological factors underlying attitudes toward AI tools. Nature Human Behavior.
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De Freitas, J., Uǧuralp, A. K., Uǧuralp, Z., Paul, L., Tenenbaum, J., & Ullman, T. E. (2023). Self orienting in human and machine learning. Nature Human Behavior. [supp. materials]
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De Freitas, Uǧuralp, A. K., Oguz, Z., & Puntoni, S. (2023). Chatbots and mental health: Insights into the safety of generative AI. Journal of Consumer Psychology. [supp. materials]
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Nam, J., Balakrishnan, M., De Freitas, J., & Brooks, A. W. (2023). Speedy activists: Firm reaction time to sociopolitical events influences consumer behavior. Journal of Consumer Psychology. [supp. materials]
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De Freitas, J. (2023). Will consumers buy 'selfish' self-driving cars? The Wall Street Journal.
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De Freitas, J. (2023). Will we blame self driving cars? The Wall Street Journal.
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De Freitas, J. (2023). Should you start a generative AI company? Harvard Business Review (digital).
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De Freitas, J. (2023). What is the optimal pattern of a customer journey? Harvard Business Review (digital).
2022
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Prinzing, M., De Freitas, J., & Fredrickson, B. L. (2021). The ordinary concept of a meaningful life: The role of subjective and objective factors in attributions of meaning. Journal of Positive Psychology.
2021
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De Freitas, J., Censi, A., Smith, B. W., Di Lillo, L., Anthony, S. E., & Frazzoli, E. (2021). From driverless dilemmas to more practical common-sense tests for automated vehicles. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. [supp. materials]
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De Freitas, J., & Cikara, M. (2021). Deliberately prejudiced self-driving vehicles elicit the most outrage. Cognition. [supp. materials]
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Tarhan, L., De Freitas, J., & Konkle, T. Behavioral and neural representations en route to intuitive action understanding. Neuropsychologia. [supp. materials].
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Gan, C., Schwartz, J., Alter, S., Schrimpf, M., Traer, J., De Freitas, J., Bhandwaldar, A., Sano, M., Kim, K. H., Wang, E., Mrowca, D., Lingelbach, M., Curtis, A., Feigelis, K., Haber, N., Gutfreund, D., Cox, D., DiCarlo, J., McDermott, J., Tenenbaum, J., Yamins, D. L. K. ThreeDWorld: A Platform for interactive, multi-modal physical simulation. Neural Information Processing Systems. [http://www.threedworld.org/]
2020
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Kim, K. H., Sano, M., De Freitas, J., Yamins, D. L. K., Haber, N (2020). Towards modeling the variability of human attention. International Conference on Learning Representations Workshop (ICLR).
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De Freitas, J., Anthony, S. A., Censi, A., & Alvarez, G. A. (2020). Doubting driverless dilemmas. Perspectives on Psychological Science.
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Kim, K.H. Sano, M., De Freitas, J., Haber, N., & Yamins, D. L. K. (2020). Active world model learning with progress curiosity. International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML). [ICLR workshop submission; CogSci Proceedings Submission].
2019
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De Freitas, J., Thomas, K. A., DeScioli, P., & Pinker, S. (2019). Common knowledge, coordination, and strategic mentalizing in human social life. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
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De Freitas, J., DeScioli, P., Thomas, K. A., & Pinker, S. (2019). Maimonides' Ladder: States of mutual knowledge and the perception of charitability. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 148(1), 158–173. [supp. materials]
2018
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De Freitas, J., & Cikara, M, Grossmann, I., & Schlegel, R. (2018). Moral goodness is the essence of personal identity. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 22(9), 739–740. [This is a reply to a letter by Starmans & Bloom. The main link also includes their reply to our reply].
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De Freitas, J., & Alvarez, G. A. (2018). Your visual system provides all the information you need to make moral judgments about generic visual events. Cognition, 178, 133–146.
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De Freitas, J., & Cikara, M (2018). Deep down my enemy is good: Thinking about the true self reduces intergroup bias. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 74, 307–316. [supp. materials]
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De Freitas, J.*, & Johnson, S.G.B*. (2018). Optimality bias in moral judgment. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 79, 149–163 [supp. materials]
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De Freitas, J., Sarkissian, H., Newman, G. E., Grossman, I., De Brigard, F., Luco, A., & Knobe, J. (2018). Consistent belief in a good true self in misanthropes and three interdependent cultures. Cognitive Science, 42, 134–160. [supp. materials].
2017
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De Freitas, J., Cikara, M., Grossmann, I., & Schlegel, R. (2017). Origins of the belief in morally good true selves. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 21(9), 634–636.
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Phillips, J., De Freitas, J., Mott, C., Gruber, J. & Knobe, J. (2017). True happiness: The role of morality in the concept of happiness. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 146(2),165–181.
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De Freitas, J., DeScioli, P., Nemirow, J., Massenkoff, M., & Pinker, S. (2017). Kill or die: Moral judgment alters linguistic coding of causality. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 43(8), 1173–1182. [supp. materials]
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DeScioli, P., Karpoff, R., & De Freitas, J. (2017). Ownership dilemmas: The case of finders versus landowners. Cognitive Science, 41(S3), 502–522.
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De Freitas, J., Tobia, K., Newman, J. E., & Knobe, J. (2017). Normative judgments and individual essence. Cognitive Science, 1551–6709. [supp. materials]
2016
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De Freitas, J.*, Thomas, K. A.*, DeScioli, P., & Pinker, S. (2016) Recursive mentalizing and common knowledge in the bystander effect. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 145(5), 621–629.
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De Freitas, J., Myers, N. E., & Nobre, A. C. (2016). Tracking the changing feature of a moving object. Journal of Vision, 16(3), 1–21.
2015
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Newman, J. E., De Freitas, J., and Knobe, J. (2015). Beliefs about the true self explain asymmetries based on moral judgment. Cognitive Science, 39(1), 96–125.
2014
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De Freitas, J., Liverence, B., & Scholl, B. J. (2014). Attentional rhythm: A temporal analogue of object-based attention. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 143(1), 71–76.