Fiery Cushman

Fiery Cushman is Professor of Psychology at Harvard University, directing the Moral Psychology Research Laboratory. His work examines the cognitive architecture of moral judgment through computational and experimental approaches.

Education includes:

• PhD from Harvard University
• Postdoctoral fellowship at Harvard

Research investigates:

• Learning mechanisms in moral development
• Punishment as social communication
• Counterfactual reasoning in decision-making
• Theory of mind in social evaluation

Publications present computational models unifying moral learning, judgment and behavior across 50+ articles.

Awards and honors:

• Stanton Prize (Society for Philosophy and Psychology)
• Daniel M. Wegner Theoretical Innovation Prize (SPSP)
• Henry Merrit Wriston Fellowship

Laboratory employs diverse methodologies including behavioral experiments, fMRI, developmental studies and economic games. Current projects examine contractualist principles in moral judgment and the cognitive foundations of blame.