Corey Cusimano
Regular biography
Corey Cusimano is an Assistant Professor of Marketing at Yale School of Management. His research focuses on behavioral science, consumer behavior, ethics, negotiations, and organizational behavior. Cusimano's work explores how individuals conceptualize and evaluate reasoning processes in judgment and decision-making, including the influence of values on information processing and moral motivations in consumer behavior. Before joining Yale, he was a postdoctoral scholar at Princeton University's University Center for Human Values. He holds a PhD in Experimental Psychology from the University of Pennsylvania and a BA in Philosophy and Psychology from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Scholar-generated biography
Corey Cusimano, affiliated with Yale University, investigates belief, metacognition, and moral judgment. His research explores how people apply different moral norms to human and robot agents, examining moral judgments of human versus robot agents and the role of visual perspective taking in moral reasoning. Cusimano also studies how lay beliefs about the controllability of mental states influence moral responsibility and how people justify their beliefs through motivated reasoning. His work highlights the interplay between emotion, judgment, and the psychological freedom of reasoning, with a focus on how individuals reconcile scientific and commonsense values to improve reasoning.