Our Research

• Moldoveanu, M.C. and N. Narayandas (forthcoming, 2020), From Know It Alls to Learn it Alls: The Future of Leadership Development, Boston: Harvard Business School Press.
• Moldoveanu, M.C. How and What Minds and Brains Optimize: A Brainware-Compatible Economics of Mental Behavior, MIT Press, under review.
• Moldoveanu, M.C., In the Eyes of the Other How Machines Can Make Us Better at Being Human, in preparation.

HOW AI CAN HELP US BECOME MORE HUMAN, YPO-Mind Brain Behavior Hive Launch event, February 14, 2019.

• Feedback on Ways of Being: The Missing Link in Higher Education, Harvard University, February, 2020.
• Emotional Spectroscopy: How to Make Feedback Precise, Relevant and Actionable, Harvard University, February, 2020
• Super-Aging: the Bio-Physics, Meta-physics and Psycho-Physics of the Twilight Zone, YPO Gold, April, 2019.
• How AI Can Make Us More Human, Keynote, Rotman-Young Presidents Organization Conference on the work of the Mind Brain Behavior Hive.
•Intelligent Artificiality: Using AI To Become better at Being Human, CEO Forum Keynote, Toronto, June, 2018.
• On the Computational and Informational Complexity of Individual and Organizational Learning, Boston Consulting Group Henderson Institute Meeting of the Minds Summit, New York, October, 2018.
• Intelligent Artificiality: Algorithmic Intelligence for Humans, Boston Consulting Group Henderson Institute Meeting of the Minds Summit, New York, December, 2017.
• Super-Aging: The Physics, Biology and Metaphysics of the Next Frontier, CEO Forum Keynote, Toronto, October, 2017.
• Fitbits for the Brain, Learning2016 Global Conference for Chief Learning Officers, Orlando, FLA (Plenary Keynote), 2016.
• Emotional Spectroscopy, invited talk, Learning2016 Global Conference for Chief Learning Officers, Orlando, FLA, 2016.

• Kurdi, B., Ratliff, K. A., & Cunningham, W. A. (In Press). Can the Implicit Association Test serve as a valid measure of automatic cognition? A response to Schimmack (2020). Perspectives on Psychological Science.

• Landy, J. F., Jia, M., Ding, I. L., Viganola, D., Tierney, W., . . . Uhlmann, E. L. (In Press). Crowdsourcing hypothesis tests: Making transparent how design choices shape research results. Psychological Bulletin.

• Golubickis, M., Ho, N. S. P., Falbén, J. K., Schwertel, C. L., Maiuri, A., Dublas, D., Cunningham, W.A., & Macrae, C. N. (In Press). Valence and ownership: Object desirability influences self-prioritization. Psychological Research.

• Kosik, T. R., Man, V., Jahn, A., Lee, C. H., & Cunningham, W. A. (In Press). Decomposing the neural pathways in a simple, value-based choice. NeuroImage. Long, E. U., Wheeler, N. E., & Cunningham, W. A. (In Press). Through the looking glass: Distinguishing neural correlates of relational and nonrelational self-reference and person representation. Cortex.

• Golubickis, M., Falbén, J. K., Ho, N. S. P., Sui, J., Cunningham, W. A., & Macrae, C. N. (2020). Parts of me: Identity-relevance moderates self-prioritization. Consciousness and Cognition, 77, 102848. Man, V., & Cunningham, W.A. (2020). Multiple scales of valence processing in the brain. Social Neuroscience.

• Allidina, S., Arbuckle, N. L., & Cunningham, W. A. (2019). Considerations of Mutual Exchange in Prosocial Decision-Making. Frontiers in Psychology, 10.

• Falben, J. K., Olivier, J. L., Golubickis, M., Ho, N. S. P., Persson, L. M., Tsamadi, D., Marinopoulou, E., Bianciardi, B., Cunningham, W. A., & Macrae, C.N. (2019). Stop Stereotyping. Attention, Perception & Psychophysics, 81(5), 1228-1235.

• Falben, J. K., Tsamadi, D., Golubickis, M., Olivier, J., Persson, L., Cunningham, W. A., & Macrae, C .N. (2019). Predictably Confirmatory: The Influence of Stereotypes During Decisional Processing. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 72(10), 2437-2451.

• Gaut, G., Li, X., Turner, B., Cunningham, W.A., Lu, Z.L., & Steyvers, M. (2019). Predicting Task and Subject Differences with Functional Connectivity and BOLD Variability. Brain Connectivity,9(6), 451-463.

• Moldoveanu, M.C. (2019), Intelligent Artificiality: How to Make AI More Useful in Enterprise Settings than It Currently is, European Business Review, May-June, 2019.

• Moldoveanu, M.C. (2019), Why AI Does not Live Up to Its Promise,Harvard Business Review Online, March, 2019.

• Moldoveanu, M.C. and D. Narayandas, (2019) The Future of Leadership Development, Harvard Business Review, March-April, 2019.

• Golubickis, M., Ho, N. S. P., Falbén, J. K., Mackenzie, K. M., Boschetti, A., Cunningham, W. A., & Neil Macrae, C. (2019). Mine or mother’s? Exploring the self-ownership effect across cultures. Culture and Brain, 7(1), 1-25.

• Man, V., Gruber, J., Glahn, D. C., & Cunningham, W. A. (2019). Altered amygdala circuits underlying valence processing among manic and depressed phases in bipolar adults. Journal of Affective Disorders, 245, 394-402.

• Nohlen, H. U., van Harreveld, F., & Cunningham, W. A. (2019). Social evaluations under conflict: Negative judgments of conflicting information are easier than positive judgments. Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, 14(7), 709-718.

• Teachman, B. A., Clerkin, E. M., Cunningham, W., Dreyer-Oren, S., & Werntz, A. (2019). Implicit Cognition and Psychopathology: Looking Back and Looking Forward. Annual Review of Clinical Psychology, 15(1). Allidina, S. & Cunningham, W. A. (2018). Moral cues from ordinary behaviour. Behavioural and Brain Sciences, 41, E96.

• Teachman, B. A., Clerkin, E. M., Cunningham, W., Dreyer-Oren, S., & Werntz, A. (2019). Implicit Cognition and Psychopathology: Looking Back and Looking Forward. Annual Review of Clinical Psychology, 15(1). Allidina, S. & Cunningham, W. A. (2018). Moral cues from ordinary behaviour. Behavioural and Brain Sciences, 41, E96.

• Golubickis, M., Falben, J. K., Cunningham, W. A., & Macrae, C. N. (2018). Exploring the self-ownership effect: Separating stimulus and response biases. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 44(2), 295-306.

• Gruber, J., Van Bavel, J. J., Somerville, L. H., Lewis, Jr., N. A., & Cunningham, W. A. (2018). Introducing ‘Letters to Young Scientists,’ a new column from Science Careers. Science.

• Tennant, J. M., Cook, S., Moldoveanu, M. C., Peterson, J. B., & Cunningham, W. A. (2018). Interpersonal Resonance: Developing Interpersonal Biofeedback for the Promotion of Empathy and Social Entrainment. In T. Z. Ahram (Ed.), Advances in Human Factors in Wearable Technologies and Game Design (pp. 208–214). Springer International Publishing.

• Van Bavel, J. J., & Cunningham, W. A. (2018). Scientific reproducibility in the study of social animals. In E. Aronson & J. Aronson (Eds.) The Social Animal. 12th Edition. New York: Worth/Freeman.

• Cunningham, W. A. & Koscik, T. R. (2017). Balancing Type I and Type II error concerns in fMRI through compartmentalized analysis. Cognitive NeuroscienceDutra, S. J., Man, V., Kober, H., Cunningham, W. A., & Gruber, J. (2017). Disrupted cortico-limbic connectivity during reward processing in remitted bipolar I disorder. Bipolar Disorders, 19(8), 661-675.

• Golubickis, M., Falben, J. K., Sahraie, A., Visokomogilski, A., Cunningham, W. A., Sui, J., & Macrae, C. N. (2017). Self-prioritization and perceptual matching: The effects of temporal construal. Memory & Cognition, 45(7), 1223-1239.

• Stillman, P. E., Lee, H., Deng, X., Unnava, H. R., Cunningham, W. A., & Fujita, K. (2017). Neurological evidence for the role of construal level in future-directed thought. Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, 12(6), 937-947.

• Stillman, P. E., Lee, H., Deng, X., Unnava, H. R., Cunningham, W. A., & Fujita, K. (2017). Neurological evidence for the role of construal level in future-directed thought. Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, 12(6), 937-947. • Man, V., Nohlen, H.U., Melo, H., & Cunningham, W.A. (2017). Hierarchical Brain Systems Support Multiple Representations of Valence and Mixed Affect. Emotion Review, 1-9.

• Roese, N.J., Melo, H.L,. Vrantsidis, T. H., & Cunningham, W. A. (2017). Reward: A marketer’s guide to the biological basis of pleasure. In M. Cerf & M. Garcia (Eds). Consumer Neurosciences. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.

• Luttrell, A., Stillman, P. E., Hasinski, A., & Cunningham, W. A. (2016). Neural dissociations in attitude strength: Distinct regions of cingulate cortex track ambivalence and certainty. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 145(4), 419-433.

• Man, V., Ames, D. L., Todorov, A., & Cunningham, W. A. (2016). Amygdala Tuning toward Self and Other. Positive Neuroscience, 105-123, Chapter 7.

• Melo, H. L., Koscik, T. R., Vrantsidis,T. H., Hathaway, G., & Cunningham, W. A. (2016). Origins of emotional consciousness. Brain and Behavioural Sciences, 39, 33.

• Wonch, K.E., de Medeiros, C., Barrett, J., Dudin, A, Cunningham, W. A., Hall, G. B., Steiner, M., & Fleming, A. S. (2016). Postpartum Depression and Brain Response to Infants: Differential Amygdala Response and Connectivity. Social Neuroscience, 11(6), 600-617.

• Cunningham, W. & Luttrell, A. (2015). Attitudes. In Arthur W. Toga (Ed.), Brain Mapping: An Encyclopedic Reference. Oxford: Elsevier. Dutra, S. J., Cunningham, W.A., Kober, H., & Gruber, J. (2015). Elevated striatal reactivity across monetary and social rewards in bipolar I disorder. Journal of Abnormal Psychology, 124(4), 890-904.

• Kirkland, T., Gruber J., & Cunningham, W. A. (2015). Comparing happiness and hypomania: A study of extraversion and neuroticism aspects. PLoS ONE, 10(7), 1–18.

• Stillman, P., Van Bavel, J. J., & Cunningham, W. A. (2015). Valence asymmetries in the human amygdala: Task relevance modulates amygdala responses cues. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 27, 842–851.

• Djikic, M., K. Oatley and M.C. Moldoveanu (2013), “Reading Other Minds: Effects of Literature on Empathy”, Scientific Studies of Literature.

• Djikic, M., K. Oatley and M.C. Moldoveanu (2013), “Opening the Closed Mind: The Effect of Exposure to Literature on the Need for Closure”, Creativity Research Journal, Vol. 25(2):149-154.