Nagel, Jonas
Biographical Sketch
2004 - 2010 | Studies of psychology at the University of Göttingen |
9/2006 - 3/2007 | Stay at the University of California, Santa Cruz (UCSC) |
2007 - 2009 | Scholarship of the Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes |
3/2010 | Diploma in psychology, University of Göttingen |
since 4/2010 | Research scientist at the Cognitive and Decision Sciences lab, Department of Psychology, University of Göttingen |
4/2010 - 2/2013 | Promotion (Dr.rer.nat.) on “The Role of Spatial Distance in Judgments of Moral Obligation” at University of Göttingen ("summa cum laude") |
4/2014 | Georg-Elias-Award for best teaching 2013 in the masters program in psychology at the University of Göttingen |
2/2015 - 4/2015 | Visiting scholar with Frank Keil, Cognition and Development Lab, Yale University |
Publications
- Nagel, J., & Rybak, A. (2017). Scale effects in moral relevance assessment: How implicit presuppositions communicated by response scales affect expressed judgments. Experimental Psychology, 64, 93-109.
- Waldmann, M. R., Wiegmann, A., & Nagel, J. (2017). Causal models mediate moral inferences. In J.-F. Bonnefon & B. Trémolière (Eds.), Moral inferences (pp. 37-55). London: Routledge. [PDF]
- Nagel, J., & Stephan, S. (2016). Explanations in causal chains: Selecting distal causes requires exportable mechanisms. In A. Papafragou, D. Grodner, D. Mirman, & J. C. Trueswell (Eds.), Proceedings of the 38th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 806-812). Austin, TX: Cognitive Science Society. [PDF]
- Nagel, J., & Waldmann, M. R. (2016). On having very long arms: How the availability of technological means affects moral cognition. Thinking & Reasoning, 22, 184-208. [PDF]
- Nagel, J. & Wiegmann, A. (2016). Moral intuitionism and empirical data. In C. Brand (Ed.), Dual-process theories in moral psychology. Interdisciplinary approaches to theoretical, empirical and practical considerations. Wiesbaden: Springer Press.
- Nagel, J., & Stephan, S. (2015). Mediators or alternative explanations: Transitivity in human-mediated causal chains. In D. C. Noelle, R. Dale, A. S. Warlaumont, J. Yoshimi, T. Matlock, C. D. Jennings, & P. P. Maglio (Eds.), Proceedings of the 37th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 1691-1696). Austin, TX: Cognitive Science Society. [PDF]
- Nagel, J., & Waldmann, M. R. (2013). Deconfounding distance effects in judgments of moral obligation. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, & Cognition, 39, 237-252. [PDF]
- Nagel, J., & Waldmann, M. R. (2013). Spatial distance, availability of means, and moral obligation judgments. In M. Knauff, M. Pauen, N. Sebanz & I. Wachsmuth (Eds.), Proceedings of the Thirty-Fifth Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 3127-3132). Austin, TX: Cognitive Science Society. [PDF]
- Nagel, J., & Waldmann, M. R. (2012). Force dynamics as a basis for moral intuitions. In N. Miyake, D. Peebles, & R. P. Cooper (Eds.), Proceedings of the 34th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 785-790). Austin, TX: Cognitive Science Society. [PDF]
- Wiegmann, A., Okan, Y., & Nagel, J. (2012). Order effects in moral judgment. Philosophical Psychology, 25, 813-836.
- Waldmann, M. R., Nagel, J., & Wiegmann, A. (2012). Moral judgment. In K. J. Holyoak & R. G. Morrison (Eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Thinking and Reasoning (pp. 364-389). New York: Oxford University Press.
- Nagel, J., & Waldmann, M. R. (2010). Deconfounding distance effects in moral reasoning. In S. Ohlsson & R. Catrambone (Eds.), Proceedings of the Thirty-Second Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 2595-2600). Austin, TX: Cognitive Science Society. [PDF]
- Mayrhofer, R., Nagel, J., & Waldmann, M. R. (2010). The role of causal schemas in inductive reasoning. In S. Ohlsson & R. Catrambone (Eds.), Proceedings of the Thirty-Second Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 1082-1087). Austin, TX: Cognitive Science Society. [PDF]
- Wiegmann, A., Okan, Y., Nagel, J., & Mangold, S. (2010). Order effects in moral judgment. In S. Ohlsson & R. Catrambone (Eds.), Proceedings of the Thirty-Second Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 2111-2116). Austin, TX: Cognitive Science Society. [PDF]
- Griffiths, O., Mayrhofer, R., Nagel, J., & Waldmann, M. R. (2009). Causal schema-based inductive reasoning. In N.A. Taatgen & H. van Rijn (Eds.). Proceedings of the Thirty-First Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 691-696). Austin, TX: Cognitive Science Society. [PDF]
Posters/Talks
- Nagel, J., & Waldmann, M. R. (2014). Ancestral morality in the modern world: The role of technological means. Symposium of the Courant Research Centre Evolution of Social Behaviour, Göttingen, June 19th – June 20th. [Talk]
- Nagel, J. (2014). Case-based moral intuitions as empirical facts. BMBF Symposium “Psychology and Ethics”, Tübingen, March 8th – March 15th. [Talk]
- Nagel, J. (2014). Moral obligations in a Shrinking world: The role of spatial distance in judgments of moral helping obligations. Invited talk at the Department of General Psychology, University of Freiburg, January 10th. [Talk]
- Nagel, J., & Waldmann, M. R. (2013). Judgments of helping obligations in a shrinking world. 55. Tagung experimentell arbeitender Psychologen, Wien, March 25th – March 27th. [Talk]
- Nagel, J., & Waldmann, M. R. (2012). The evaluative implications of force dynamics. International Conference on Thinking 2012, Birkbeck College and University College London, July 4th - July 6th. [Talk]
- Nagel, J., & Waldmann, M. R. (2012). Distance and moral obligations: The role of the location of means. 54. Tagung experimentell arbeitender Psychologen, Mannheim, April 1st - April 4th. [Talk]
- Nagel, J., & Waldmann, M. R. (2012). Evaluation of agents and patients in force-dynamic interactions. Agents and causes: Interdisciplinary aspects in mind, language, and culture, ZIF, Bielefeld, March 21st - March 23rd. [Poster]
- Wiegmann, A., Okan, Y., & Nagel, J. (2010). Reihenfolgeeffekte bei Moralurteilen. 52. Tagung experimentell arbeitender Psychologen, Saarbrücken, 22. – 24. März. [Poster]
- Okan, Y., Wiegmann, A., & Nagel, J. (2010). Order effects in moral judgment: Implications for psychological theories of moral reasoning. Eighth Conference of the Spanish Experimental Psychological Society (SEPEX), Granada, April 15th – April 17th. [Poster]
- Pluta, J., Klingelhöfer, B., Gerchen, F., Mangold, S., Nagel, J., Sell, C., & Hagmayer, Y. (2006). Inaction Inertia – Ist Bedauern alles was zählt? 45. Kongress der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Psychologie (DGPS), Nürnberg, 17. – 21. September. [Poster]