Geoffrey Goodwin

Professor

Solomon Labs
3720 Walnut St, Room D16


Research Interests

Decision Processes; Social and Cultural Psychology

Specific Research Areas

Social cognition, moral psychology, and reasoning

Professor Geoffrey Goodwin will not be considering new graduate students for admission for Fall 2025.

Courses Taught

PSYC 170 Social Psychology
PSYC 470 Seminar in Social Psychology
PSYC 600 (proseminar) Social Psychology

Advisee

Ryan Wheat [Pscyhology Graduate Student]

Education
BA, Psychology, University of Queensland;
Ph.D., Psychology, Princeton University
Selected Publications

Caviola, L., Althaus, D., Mogensen, A., & Goodwin, G. P. (2022). Population ethical intuitions. Cognition, 218, 104941.

Sousa, P., Allard, A., Piazza, J., & Goodwin, G. P. (2021). Folk moral objectivism: The case of harmful actions. Frontiers in Psychology, 2776. 

Cusimano, C., & Goodwin, G. P. (2020). People judge others to have more voluntary control over beliefs than they themselves do. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 119, 999-1029.

Watkins, H. M., & Goodwin, G. P. (2020). Reflecting on sacrifices made by past generations increases a sense of obligation towards future generations.  Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 46, 995-1012.

Sun, J., & Goodwin, G. P. (2020). Do people want to become more moral? Psychological Science, 31, 243-257. 

Watkins, H. M., & Goodwin, G. P. (2020). A fundamental asymmetry in judgments of soldiers at war. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 149, 419-444.

Cusimano, C. & Goodwin, G. P. (2019).  Lay beliefs about the controllability of everyday mental states. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 148, 1701-1732.  

Landy, J. F., & Goodwin, G. P. (2015a). Does incidental disgust amplify moral judgment?  A meta-analytic review of experimental evidence.  Perspectives on Psychological Science, 10, 518-536.

Goodwin, G. P. (2015). Moral character in person perception. Current Directions in Psychological Science, 24, 38-44.

Goodwin, G. P., & Benforado, A. (2015). Judging the goring ox: Retribution directed toward animals. Cognitive Science, 39, 619-646.

Goodwin, G. P. (2014). Is the basic conditional probabilistic? Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 143, 1214-1241.

Goodwin, G. P., & Landy, J. F. (2014). Valuing different human lives. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 143, 778-803.

Goodwin, G. P., Piazza, J., & Rozin, P. (2014). Moral character predominates in person perception and evaluation. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 106, 148-168.

Goodwin, G. P., & Darley, J. M. (2008). The psychology of meta-ethics: Exploring objectivism. Cognition, 106, 1339-1366.

Goodwin, G. P., & Johnson-Laird, P. N. (2005). Reasoning about relations. Psychological Review, 112, 468-493.