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Protected Values

• Bartels, D. M. & Medin, D. L. (in press). Are morally-motivated decision makers insensitive to the consequences of their choices? Psychological Science
• Bartels, D. M. & Bennis, W. M. (2006, November) Deontology and Consequentialism in Morally-Motivated Decision Making. Paper to be presented at the meeting of the Society for Judgment and Decision Making, Houston, Texas.
• Ginges, J., Atran, S., and D. Medin. Moral Barriers to the Rational Resolution of Conflict. (submitted to Nature).
• Ginges, J, Atran, S., and D. Medin. Sacred Bounds on rational conflict resolution: the Middle East and Beyond. (submitted.)
• Ginges J., Atran, S., Medin, D. & Shikaki, K., Sacred Bounds on Rational Resolution of Violent Political Conflict. Nature, Oct 2006.
• Ginges, J. (2006, November) Moral and Instrumental Values in Political Negotiation: Field Studies with Israelis and Palestinians. Paper to be presented at the meeting of the Society for Judgment and Decision Making, Houston, Texas.
• Iliev, R. & Medin, D. (to be submitted to Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes). Moral Values and Attention: Anchoring effects and the conjunction fallacy.

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Strategic Play & Decision-Making

• Gal, Y, Grosz, B., Kraus, S., Pfeffer A. & S. Shieber. Colored Trails: A Formalism for Investigating Decision-making in Strategic Environments.
• Gal, Y. Modeling the influence of Task Contexts on Human negotiation. (submitted)
• Richards, Diana. Reciprocity and Shared Knowledge Structures in the Prisoner's Dilemma Game. Journal of Conflict Resolution, Vol. 45 No. 5, October 2001.
• Richards, W. (2005) Collective choice with uncertain domain models. MIT-CSAIL technical report # AIM-2005-054 (available on-line.)
• Stankiewicz , B.J. (Under Review). Understanding the cognitive limitations when making efficient decisions under uncertainty. United States Army Technical Report.
• Stankiewicz, B.J. & Pitts, J. (Under review) Remembering How You Got Here: The Role of Path Memory and Landmarks During Localization. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory & Cognition.

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Inferring Network Structure

• Forbus, Invited Keynote, 20th International Qualitative Reasoning Workshop, Dartmouth, NH. Title: Qualitative Representations as a Modeling Language for Cognitive Science, July 2006
• Kemp, Charles. Itza', Ladinos, Q'eqchi'. August 10 2006.
• C. Kemp & J. Tennenbaum. The Discovery of Structural Form. Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, MIT.
• Kemp, C. Tenenbaum, J. B., Griffiths, T.L., Yamada, T. and N. Ueda. (2006) Learning systems of concepts with an infinite relational model. Proc. 21st National Conference on Artiificial Intelligence (AAAI-06.)
• Kemp, C., Nivogi, S., Griffiths, T., Tenenbaum, J. A Computational approach to theory discovery. MIT Dept. of Brain & Cognitive Sciences, 2006.
• Mansinghka, V. K., Kemp, C., Tenenbaum, J. B., and T.L. Griffiths. (2006).Structured priors for structure learning. Proceedings of the Twenty-Second Conference on Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence (UAI 2006)
• Shafto, P. Kemp, C., Mansignhka, V., Gordon, M., and J.B. Tenenbaum. (2006). Learning cross-cutting systems of categories. Proceedings of the Twenty-Eighth Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society.
• Stankiewicz, B.J. & Eastman, K. (Under review) Lost in Virtual Space II: The Role of Proprioception and Discrete Actions when Navigating with Uncertainty. Association for Computing Machinery/ Transactions on Applied Perception.
• Stankiewicz, B.J., Cassandra, A.R., McCabe. M.R. and W. Weathers. (In Press). Development and Evaluation Of A Bayesian Low-Vision Navigation Aid. Under Review. Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics.

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Network Evolution

• Bednar, J. and S.E. Page. (2006) Can Game(s) Theory explain culture? The emergence of cultural behavior within Multiple games. (Rationality and Society, in press.)
• Bednar, J, Bramson, A, Jones-Rooy, A and S.E. Page. Conformity, Consistency and Cultural Heterogeneity. Sept 18, 2006.
• Richards, W. and N. Wormald. (2009) Representing Small Group Evolution. MIT CSAIL Tech Report, 2009-2012.

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• Forbus, Analogy Workshop, University of Osnabrueck. Title: Qualitative Reasoning Group Analogy Research Overview. October, 2006

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Qualitative Reason & Story Models

• Finlayson, M A and P.H. Winston. (2005) Intermediate features and informational-level constraint on analogical retrieval. In B. G. Bara, L. Barsalou, & M. Bucciarelli (edds.). Annual meeting of the cognitive science society (Vol. 27) Stressa, Italy.
• Forbus, K., Lockwood, K., Tomai, E., Dehghani, M., and J. Czyz. (submitted). Machine Reading as a Cognitive Science Research Instrument. Submitted to the 2007 AAAI Spring Symposium on Machine Reading.
• Tenenbaum, J. B., Griffiths, T. L. and C. Kemp. (2006) Theory based baysian models of inductive learning and reasoning. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 10(7) 682-687.

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MURI Publications

• Atran, S. Axelrod, R. & R. Davis (2007) Sacred Barriers to Conflict Resolution. Science 317, 1039-1040.
• Bartels, D. M. & Medin, D. L. (in press). Are morally-motivated decision makers insensitive to the consequences of their choices? Psychological Science
• Bednar, J. and S.E. Page. (2006) Can Game(s) Theory explain culture? The emergence of cultural behavior within Multiple games. (Rationality and Society, in press.)
• Ginges J., Atran, S., Medin, D. & Shikaki, K. (2007) Sacred Bounds on Rational Resolution of Violent Political Conflict. PNAS 104, 7357
• Page, S E., Sander, L. & C. Schneider-Mizell. (2007) Conformity and dissonance in generalized voter models. Jrl. Stat. Phys. 128, 1279 –1297.
• Stankiewicz, B.J., Cassandra, A.R., McCabe. M.R. and W. Weathers. (In Press). Development and Evaluation Of A Bayesian Low-Vision Navigation Aid. Under Review. Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics.
• Tenenbaum, J. B., Griffiths, T. L. and C. Kemp. (2006) Theory based Baysian models of inductive learning and reasoning. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 10(7) 682-687

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Conference Proceedings

• Bartels D. M. & W. Bennis (2006) Deontology and Consequentialism in Morally-Motivated decision-making. Proc. Soc. for Judgment & Decision-Making, Houston, TX.
• Bartels, D. M. & Bennis, W. M. (2006) Deontology and Consequentialism in Morally-Motivated Decision Making. Proc. Soc. for Judgment and Decision Making, Houston, TX.
• Coen, M. H. (2005) Cross Modal Clustering. Proc. 20th Conf. On Artificial Intelligence (AAAI’05). (See also: MIT-Phd dissertation 2006: Multimodal dynamics.)
• Dehghani, M. Unsworth, S., Lovett, A. & K. Forbus (2007) Capturing and categorizing mental models of food webs using QCM. 21st International Workshop on Qualitative Reasoning Workshop, Aberystwyth, UK
• Dehghani, M., Iliev, R. & S. Kaufmann (2007) Effectsd of fact mutability in the interpretation of counterfactuals. Proc. 29th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, Nashville, TN
• Ficici, S.G. and A. Pfeffer. (2008) Modeling how Humans Reason about Others with Partial Information, Seventh International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systens (AAMAS).
• Ficici, S.G. and Pfeffer, A. (2008) Simultaneously Modeling Humans' Preferences and their Beliefs about Others' Preferences, Seventh International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systens (AAMAS).
• Finlayson, M A and P.H. Winston. (2005) Intermediate features and informational-level constraint on analogical retrieval. In B. G. Bara, L. Barsalou, & M. Bucciarelli (edds.). Annual meeting of the cognitive science society (Vol. 27) Stressa, Italy.
• Forbus, K., Lockwood, K., Tomai, E., Dehghani, M., and J. Czyz. (2007). Machine Reading as a Cognitive Science Research Instrument. AAAI Spring Symposium on Machine Reading.
• Forbus, K; Invited Keynote, 20th International Qualitative Reasoning Workshop, Dartmouth, NH. Title: Qualitative Representations as a Modeling Language for Cognitive Science, July 2006
• Gal Y., Kasturirangen R., Pfeffer, A. and W. Richards. (2008) How Tacit Knowledge Guides Action. Conference on Naturally-Inspired Artificial Intelligence, Washington, D.C. AAAI Tech Report, FS-08-06.
• Gal, Y. & A. Pfeffer (2007) Modeling reciprocal behavior in human bilateral negotiation. National Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI’07),Vancouver, BC.
• Gal Y., Grosz B., Pfeffer A., Shieber S. (2007) The Influence of Task Contexts on the Decision-making of Humans and Computers Proceedings of the Sixth International Interdisciplinary Conference on Modeling and Using Context (CONTEXT’07), Roskilde University, Denmark.
• Gal, Y., Grosz, B., Pfeffer, A. & S. Shieber (2006). Colored Trails: a formalism for investigating decision-making in strategic environments. Proc. Workshop of Reasoning, Representation, and Learning in Computer Games. 19th Int. Joint Conf. On Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI), Edinburgh, Scotland
• Ginges, J. (2006, November) Moral and Instrumental Values in Political Negotiation: Field Studies with Israelis and Palestinians. Paper presented at the meeting of the Society for Judgment and Decision Making, Houston, TX.
• Kemp, C. Goodman, N. D. & J. Tenenbaum (2007) Learning causal schemata. Proc. 29th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society.
• Kemp, C., Tenenbaum, J. B., Griffiths, T.L., Yamada, T. and N. Ueda. (2006) Learning systems of concepts with an infinite relational model. Proc. 21st National Conference on Artiificial Intelligence (AAAI-06.)
• MacMahon, M. and Stankiewicz, B.J. (2006) Human and Automated Indoor Route Instruction Following. In Proceedings of the 28th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, Vancouver, BC.
• Mansinghka, V. K., Kemp, C., Tenenbaum, J. B., and T.L. Griffiths. (2006).Structured priors for structure learning. Proceedings of the Twenty-Second Conference on Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence (UAI 2006)
• Pfeffer A., Gal Y., (2007) On Reasoning Processes in Games National Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI’07),Vancouver, BC.
• Shafto, P. Kemp, C., Mansignhka, V., Gordon, M., and J.B. Tenenbaum. (2006). Learning cross-cutting systems of categories. Proceedings of the Twenty-Eighth Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society.
• Tomai, E. & K. Forbus (2007) Plenty of blame to go around: a qualitative approach to attribution of moral responsibility. In Proc. Qualitative Reasoning Workshop, Aberystwyth, UK
• Tomai, E. & K. Forbus (2007) Narrative presentation and meaning. AAAI Fall symposium on Intelligent Narrataive Technologies, Washington D.C.

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Working Papers & Submissions

• Argo, N. Why Fight? Examining self-interested vs community-oriented motivation in Palestinian Insurgency.
• Atran, S. & M. Sageman. The road to Bali.
• Atran, S. & M. Sageman. The great train bombing.
• Bednar, J., Bramson, A. Jones-Rooy, A. & S. E. Page. Conformity and consistency: Explaining the emergence of cultural signatures and persistence of internal diversity (submitted.)
• Bednar, J. Chen, Y., Liu, X. and S. E. Page. Learning in Game ensembles: an experimental study (submitted.)
• Bednar, J., Chen, Y & S.E. Page. Institutional path dependence: and experimental study.
• Dehghani, M., Iliev, R. & Forbus, K. A computational framework for modeling moral and cultural factors in decision-making (submitted.)
• Gal, Y., D'souza, S., Pasquier, P., Rahwan I., and S. Abdallah. The Effects of Goal Revelation on Computer-Mediated Negotiation. Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society (CogSci), 2009
• Gal Y., Grosz B., Kraus S., Pfeffer, A. Colored Trails: A framework for Investigating Decision-Making in Open Mixed Networks. (in preparation)
• Gal Y., Kasturirangen R., Pfeffer, A. and W. Richards. How Tacit Knowledge Guides Action. Workshop on Naturally-Inspired Artificial Intelligence, AAAI 2008 Fall Symposium Series, Arlington, VA, November 2008.
• Ginges, J, Atran, S., and D. Medin. Sacred Bounds on rational conflict resolution: the Middle East and Beyond. (submitted.)
• Golman, R. & S. E. Page. Collective action and cultural learning (submitted.)
• Golman, R. and S. E. Page. Learning rules and basins of attraction (submitted.)
• Golman, R. and S.E. Page. Adjustment dynamics and equilibrium selection: how players learn matters.
• Hendrix P., Gal Y., and A. Pfeffer. Learning Whom to Trust: Using Graphical Models for Learning about Information Providers. Seventh International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems, Budapest, Hungary, May 2009.
• Iliev, R. & Medin, D. (to be submitted to Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes). Moral Values and Attention: Anchoring effects and the conjunction fallacy.
• Kemp, C. Goodman, N.D. & Tenenbaum. A complexity measure for intuitive theories.
• Koenderink, J. and W. Richards. Multi-level Cellular Automata. (Cognitive Science, 09 and IEEE Society Conference, submitted).
• Moll, R., Ficici, S., Gal, Y. & W. Richards. The evolution of agent’s strategies with different beliefs
• Richards, W. (2005) Collective choice with uncertain domain models MIT-CSAIL tech report AIM-2005-054 (available on-line.)
• Richards, W. & L. Kitch. Analysing a perturbation in actor alignments: political swarms before and after the Bali bombing.
• Stankiewicz , B.J. (Under Review). Understanding the cognitive limitations when making efficient decisions under uncertainty. United States Army Technical Report.
• Stankiewicz, B.J. & Pitts, J. (Under review) Remembering How You Got Here: The Role of Path Memory and Landmarks During Localization. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory & Cognition.
• Stankiewicz, B.J. & Eastman, K. (Under review) Lost in Virtual Space II: The Role of Proprioception and Discrete Actions when Navigating with Uncertainty. Association for Computing Machinery/ Transactions on Applied Perception
• Stankiewicz , B.J. Understanding the cognitive limitations when making efficient decisions under uncertainty.
• Stankiewicz, B.J. Human and Bayesian Performance in an Adversarial Sequential- Decision Making with Uncertainty Task.

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