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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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)
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
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)
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
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/
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
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.
*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
