Publications
Aharoni, E., Nahmias, E., Hoffman, M. B., & Fernandes, F. (2024). Punishment after life: How attitudes about longer-than-life sentences expose the rules of retribution. Behavioral Sciences, 14(9), 855.
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Aharoni, E., Fernandes, S., Brady, D. J., Alexander, C., Criner, M., Queen, K., Rando, J., Nahmias, E., & Crespo, V. (2024). Attributions toward Artificial Agents in a modified Moral Turing Test. Scientific Reports. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-024-58087-7.
Aharoni, E., Nahmias, E., Hoffman, M. D., & Fernandes, S. (2023). Punishment as a scarce resource: a potential policy intervention for managing incarceration rates. Frontiers in Psychology.
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Allen, C. H., Aharoni, E. A., Gullapalli, A. R., Edwards, B. G., Harenski, C. L., Harenski, K., & Kiehl, K. A. (2022). Hemodynamic activity in the limbic system predicts reoffending in women. NeuroImage: Clinical.
Aharoni, E., Kleider-Offutt, H. M., Brosnan, S. F. & Hoffman, M. (2022) Nudges for judges: an experiment on the effect of making sentencing costs explicit. Frontiers in Psychology.
Fernandes, S. & Aharoni, E. (in press). In Unity there is Strength but in Divergence, Unexpected Leaps: Comment on Leising et al. (2021). Personality Science.
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Aharoni, E., Simpson, D., Nahmias, E., & Gollwitzer, M. (2022). A painful message: Testing the roles of suffering and understanding in punishment judgments. Zeitschrift für Psychologie.
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Aharoni, E., Kleider-Offutt, H. M., & Brosnan, S. F.. (2021). Correctional “free lunch”? Cost neglect increases punishment in prosecutors. Frontiers in Psychology. https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2021.778293/full
Aharoni, E., Abdulla, S., Allen, C. H., and Nadelhoffer, T. (2022). Ethical implications of neurobiologically informed risk assessment for criminal justice decisions. In De Brigard, F. & Sinnott-Armstrong, W. (Eds.). Neuroscience and Philosophy. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
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Irvin-Vitela, M., Maurer, M. J., Aharoni, E., Fernandes, S., Edwards, B. G., Decety, J., Harenski, C., & Kiehl, K. A. (2021). Reduced endorsement of specific moral foundations in incarcerated adult women with elevated psychopathic traits. Personality and Individual Differences.
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Aharoni, E. (2021). Bias at the surface or the core? A comment on the psychology of the trial judge. In B. Brozek, J. Hage, & N. Vincent (Ed.’s) Law and Mind. A Handbook of Law and the Cognitive Sciences. Cambridge University Press. (pdf)
Allen, C. & Aharoni, E. (2021). Current Trends in Cognitive Neuroscience and Criminal Punishment. In F. Focquaert, E. Shaw, & B. Waller (Eds.) The Routledge Handbook of the Philosophy and Science of Punishment. Routledge. (pdf)
Aharoni, E. & Hoffman, M. B. (2020). Evolutionary psychology, jurisprudence, and sentencing. In T. Shackelford (Ed.) The SAGE Handbook of Evolutionary Psychology. SAGE Publications.
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Aharoni, E., Kleider-Offutt, H. M., Brosnan, S. F., & Fernandes, S. (2020). Slippery scales: Cost priming selectively modulates sentencing recommendations in laypeople. PLOS One. (pdf)
Fernandes, S., Aharoni, E., Harenski, C., & Kiehl, H. A. (2020) Anomalous moral intuitions in juvenile offenders with psychopathic traits. Journal of Research in Personality, 86.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jrp.2020.103962
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Aharoni, E., Kleider-Offutt, H. M., & Brosnan, S. F. (2019). The price of justice: Cost neglect increases criminal punishment recommendations. Legal and Criminological Psychology. (pdf)
Aharoni, E., Anderson, N. E., Barnes, J. C., *Allen, C. H., & Kiehl, K. A. (2019). Mind the gap: Toward an integrative science of the brain and crime. BioSocieties. https://doi.org/10.1057/s41292-019-00167-3
Allen, C., Felsen, G., Vold, K., Blumenthal-Barby, J., & Aharoni, E. (2019). Reconciling the opposing effects of neurobiological evidence on criminal sentencing judgments. PLOS ONE (pdf)
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Aharoni, E., Kleider-Offutt, H. M., Brosnan, S. F., & Watzek, J. (2018). Justice at Any Cost? The Impact of Cost/Benefit Salience on Criminal Punishment Judgments. Behavioral Sciences & the Law. (pdf)
Kiehl, K. Anderson, N. E., Aharoni, E. Maurer, M., Harenski, K., Harenski, C. L., Koenigs, M., Decety, J., Kosson, D., Wager, T. D., Calhoun, V. D., & Steele, V. (2018). Age of Gray Matters: Neuroprediction of Recidivism. Neuroimage: Clinical, 19, 813-823.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nicl.2018.05.036
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Nahmias, E. & Aharoni, E. (2017). Communicative Theories of Punishment and the Impact of Apology. In C. W. Surprenant (Ed.) Rethinking punishment in an era of mass incarceration. Routledge. (pdf)
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Hardison, C., Aharoni, E., Larson, C., Trochill, S., & Hou, A. (2017). Stress and dissatisfaction in remotely piloted aircraft personnel. RAND Report RR-1756-AF. Retrieved from http://www.rand.org/pubs/research_reports/RR1756.html
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Aharoni, E. & Vincent, N. A. (2016). Psychopathic brains on trial. Emotion Researcher, ISRE’s Sourcebook for Research on Emotion and Affect, Andrea Scarantino (ed.), http://emotionresearcher.com/psychopathic-brains-on-trial/
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Steele, V. R., Claus, E. D., Aharoni, E., Vincent, G. M., Calhoun, V. D., & Kiehl, K. A. (2015). Multimodal imaging measures predict rearrest. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 9, 425.
Miller, L. L., & Aharoni, E. (2015) Understanding low survey response rates among young U.S. military personnel. RAND Report RR-881-AF. Retrieved from https://www.rand.org/content/dam/rand/pubs/research_reports/RR800/RR881/RAND_RR881.pdf
Breslau, J., Aharoni, E., Pedersen, E., & Miller, L. L. (2015). A review of research on problematic Internet use and well-being. RAND Report RR-849-AF. Retrieved from https://www.rand.org/pubs/research_reports/RR849.html
Wong, C., Aharoni, E., Aliev, G., & DuBois, J. (2015). Blind collaborative justice: Testing the impact of expert blinding and consensus building on the validity of expert testimony. RAND Report RR-804-1-NIJ. Retrieved from https://www.rand.org/pubs/research_reports/RR804-1.html
Aharoni, E., Sinnott-Armstrong, W., & Kiehl, K. A. (2014). What's wrong? Moral understanding in psychopathic offenders. Journal of Research in Personality, 53, 175-181.
Aharoni, E., Mallett, J., Vincent, G. M., Harenski, C. L., Calhoun, V. D., Sinnott-Armstrong, W., Gazzaniga, M. S., & Kiehl, K. A. (2014). Predictive accuracy in the neuroprediction of rearrest. Social Neuroscience.
Aharoni, E., Rabinovich, L., Mallett, J., & Morral, A. (2014). An assessment of program sustainability in three Bureau of Justice Assistance criminal justice domains. RAND Report RR-550-BJA. Retrieved from https://www.rand.org/pubs/research_reports/RR550.html
Steele, V. R., Claus, E. D., Aharoni, E., Harenski, C. L., Calhoun, V. D., Pearlson, G. & Kiehl, K. A. (2014). A large scale (N = 102) functional neuroimaging study of error processing in a Go/NoGo task. Behavioural Brain Research. 268, 127-138.
Saks, M. J., Schweitzer, N. J., Aharoni, E., & Kiehl, K. (2014). The impact of neuroimages in the sentencing phase of capital trials. Journal of Empirical Legal Studies, 11(1), 105-131.
Steele, V. R., Aharoni, E., Munro, G. E., Calhoun, V. D., Nyalakanti, P., Stevens, M. C., Pearlson, G. D., & Kiehl, K. A. (2013). A large scale (n=102) functional neuroimaging study of response inhibition in a Go/NoGo Task. Behavioural Brain Research, 256, 529–536.
Aharoni, E., Vincent, G. M., Harenski, C. L., Calhoun, V. D., Sinnott-Armstrong, W., Gazzaniga, M. S., & Kiehl, K. A. (2013). Neuroprediction of future rearrest. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 110, 6223-6228. Retrieved from http://www.pnas.org/content/110/15/6223
Aharoni, E. & Fridlund, A. J. (2013). Moralistic punishment as a crude social insurance plan. In T. Nadelhoffer (Ed.) The Future of Punishment. Oxford University Press (pp. 213-229).
Aharoni, E. & Kiehl, K. A. (2013). Evading justice: Quantifying criminal success in incarcerated psychopathic offenders. Criminal Justice and Behavior, 40, 629-645. (pdf)
Aharoni, E., Sinnott-Armstrong, W., & Kiehl, K. A. (2012). Can Psychopathic Offenders Discern Moral Wrongs? A New Look at the Moral/Conventional Distinction. Journal of Abnormal Psychology, 121(2), 484-497. (pdf)
Aharoni, E. & Fridlund, A. J. (2011). Punishment without reason: Isolating retribution in lay punishment of criminal offenders. Psychology, Public Policy, and the Law, 18(4), 599-625. (pdf)
Aharoni, E., Antonenko, O., & Kiehl, K. A. (2011). Disparities in the moral intuitions of criminal offenders: The role of psychopathy. Journal of Research in Personality, 45(3), 322-327. (pdf)
Aharoni, E. (2009). Why do we punish? Studies of lay judgments against criminal offenders. Doctoral dissertation, Department of Psychology, UCSB. Santa Barbara, CA.
Aharoni, E., Funk, C., Sinnott-Armstrong, W., Gazzaniga, M. (2008). Can neurological evidence help courts assess criminal responsibility? Lessons from law and neuroscience. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, 1124:145-60. (pdf)
Aharoni, E., Weintraub, L. & Fridlund, A. J. (2007). No skin off my back: Retribution deficits in psychopathic motives for punishment. Behavioral Sciences and the Law, 26(5), 869-889. (pdf)
Aharoni, E. & Fridlund, A. J. (2007). Social reactions toward people vs. computers: How mere labels shape interactions. Computers in Human Behavior, 23, 2175-2189. (pdf)
Bailenson, J., Aharoni, E., Beall, A., Guadagno, R., Dimov, A., Blascovich, J. (2004). Comparing behavioral and self-report measures of agents' social presence in immersive virtual environments. Proceedings of the 7th Annual International Workshop on PRESENCE. (2004, Valencia, Spain). Retrieved from https://vhil.stanford.edu/mm/2004/bailenson-comparing.pdf
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Allen, C. H, Nahmias, E., & Aharoni, E. (2021). Neuro-interventions as Punishment? The Neuroethics Blog. Retrieved on March 11, 2021, from http://www.theneuroethicsblog.com/2021/03/neuro-interventions-as-punishment.html
Aharoni, E. (2019). Autonomy in Sentencing: Lessons from a 10-year-old child. PEA Soup philosophy blog. Posted on May 29, 2019 at peasoup.us.
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*Allen, C. H. & Aharoni, E. (2019). Brain scan evidence in criminal sentencing: A blessing and a curse. The Conversation. Posted on April 2, 2019 at TheConversation.com
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