Peer-reviewed Publications

Intertemporal Empathy Decline: Feeling Less Distress for Future Others’ Suffering. [link]
Coleman, M. & DeSteno, D. (2024). Emotion. — featured in Aeon’s Psyche, Nautilus, & Minding the Brain podcast

Beliefs about the end of humanity: How bad, likely, and important is human extinction? [link]
Coleman, M.*, Caviola, L.*, Lewis, J. , Goodwin, G. (under review).

Crying wolf: Warning about societal risks can be reputationally risky. [link] 
Caviola, L.*, Coleman, M.*, Winter, C., Lewis, J. (under review).

A Future Beyond Ourselves: Self-Oriented Prospection Predicts Increased Intergenerational Responsibility [link]
Syropoulos, S., Law, K.F., Coleman, M., Young, L. (2024). Personality and Individual Differences.

Moral Future-Thinking: Does the Moral Circle Stand the Test of Time? [link]
Law, K.F., Syropoulos, S., Coleman, M., Gainsburg, I., O’Connor, B.B. (2024). Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin.

Discount rates vary within individuals throughout daily life in conjunction with momentary changes in affect [link]
Kochanowska, E., Coleman, M., Reutskaja, E., Mills, C., Wormwood, J.B. (2023). Social Psychological and Personality Science.

Beginning with biology: “Aspects of cognition” exist in the service of the brain’s overall function as a resource-regulator [link]
Theriault, J., Coleman, M., Feldman, M., Fridman, J. D., Sennesh, E., Quigley, K., & Barrett, L. F. (2020). Behavioral and Brain Sciences. [Commentary on Lieder & Griffiths, 2019]

Exercise similarly facilitates men and women’s selective attention task response times but differentially affects memory task performance [link]
Coleman, M., Offen, K., Markant, J. (2018). Frontiers in Psychology (2018), 1405.

(* = joint first author)

This giving season, give with your heart and your head [link]
Article for The Boston Globe’s “Ideas” section, co-authored by Prof. Joshua Greene (2024)

The empathy gap that is imperilling future generations [link]
Article for Aeon magazine’s “Psyche”

Feeling the future: How empathy and morality extend across time
Doctoral dissertation for PhD program at Northeastern University (2024)
Committee: David DeSteno, PhD; Analija Albuja, PhD; Mary Steffel, PhD

Why does life feel so hard? Exploring conditions and remediations of the "headwinds/tailwinds asymmetry”
Master’s thesis for PhD program at Northeastern University (2022)
Readers: David DeSteno, PhD; Derek Isaacowitz, PhD

Affective forecasting: The challenge of predicting future feelings and the implications for global priorities research [link]
Research report for the Happier Lives Institute (2022)

Considering affective and social context in effective altruism
First year paper for PhD program at Northeastern University (2021)
Readers: David DeSteno, PhD; Joshua Greene, PhD

How your opinion of productivity impacts your free time [link]
Guest article for the “Everyday Psych” blog (2021)

How the “headwinds/tailwinds asymmetry” shapes your thinking [link]
Guest article for the “Everyday Psych” blog (2021)

The interaction of positive prediction error and active learning on memory
Honors Thesis for Honors Program at Tulane University (2018)
Thesis Committee: Julie Markant, PhD; Gary Dohanich, PhD; Ricardo Mostany, PhD