James A.

Dungan
December 2020

James A. Dungan
Curriculum Vitae

University of Chicago, Booth School of Business

5807 South Woodlawn Avenue, Chicago, IL 60637
Office: (210) 667-0651
E-mail: james.dungan@chicagobooth.edu

ACADEMIC POSITIONS

Booth School of Business, University of Chicago (Aug 2017 – present)

Postdoctoral Fellow, Center for Decision Research

EDUCATION

Boston College (Aug 2017)

Ph.D. in Social Psychology
Dissertation: Investigating the Functional Distinction Between Harm and Purity Norms
Committee: Liane Young (Chair), Elizabeth Kensinger, James Russell, Fiery Cushman

Massachusetts Institute of Technology (June 2011)

B.S., Brain and Cognitive Sciences
Thesis: Matched False-Belief Performance During Verbal and Nonverbal Interference

RESEARCH INTERESTS

Courage, Ethics, Whistleblowing and Employee Voice Behavior, Conflict Management, Ethical
Leadership, Prosocial Organizational Behavior, Social Judgment and Decision Making

PUBLICATIONS

Dungan, J.A., Young, L., & Waytz, A. (2019). The Power of Moral Concerns in Predicting
Whistleblowing Decisions. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 85, 103848.

Dungan, J.A. & Young, L. (2019). Asking “Why” Enhances Theory of Mind When Evaluating
Harm but not Purity Violations. Social Cognitive and Affective Neurosciences, 14(7), 699 – 708.

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Tsoi, L., Dungan, J.A., Chakroff, A., & Young, L. (2018). Neural Substrates for Moral
Judgments of Psychological Versus Physical Harm. Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience,
13(5), 460 – 470.

Dungan, J.A., Chakroff, A., & Young, L. (2017). The Relevance of Moral Norms in Distinct
Relational Contexts: Purity versus harm norms regulate self-directed actions. PLoS ONE, 12(3):
e0173405.

Dungan, J.A., Stepanovic, M., & Young, L. (2016). Theory of Mind for Unexpected Events
Across Contexts. Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, 11(8), 1183 – 1192.

Tsoi, L., Dungan, J., Waytz, A., & Young, L. (2016). Distinct Neural Patterns of Social
Cognition for Cooperation Versus Competition. NeuroImage, 137, 86 – 96.

Chakroff, A., Dungan, J., Koster-Hale, J., Brown, A., Saxe, R., & Young, L. (2016). When
Minds Matter for Moral Judgment: Intent information is neutrally encoded for harmful but not
impure acts. Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, 11(3), 476 – 484.

Dungan, J., Waytz, A., & Young, L. (2015). The Psychology of Whistleblowing. Current
Opinions in Psychology, 6, 129 – 133.

Dungan, J., Waytz, A., & Young, L. (2014). Corruption in the Context of Moral Tradeoffs.
Journal of Interdisciplinary Economics, 26(1-2), 97 – 118.

Dungan, J. & Young, L. (2014). Understanding the Adaptive Functions of Morality from a
Cognitive Psychological Perspective. In R. Scott, S. Kosslyn, & N. Pinkerton (Eds.) Emerging
Trends in the Social and Behavioral Sciences. John Wiley & Sons, 1 – 15.

Chakroff, A., Dungan, J., & Young, L. (2013). Harming Ourselves and Defiling Others: What
determines a moral domain? PLoS ONE, 8(9): e74434.

Waytz, A., Dungan, J. & Young, L. (2013). The Whistleblower’s Dilemma and the Fairness-
Loyalty Tradeoff. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 49(6), 1027 – 1033.

Koster-Hale, J., Saxe, R., Dungan, J. & Young, L. (2013). Decoding Moral Judgments from
Neural Representations of Intentions. PNAS, 110(14), 5648–5653.

Dungan, J. & Saxe, R. (2012). Matched False-Belief Performance During Verbal and Nonverbal
Interference. Cognitive Science, 36(6), 1148 – 1156.

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Dungan, J., Young, L. (2012). Moral Psychology. In D. Fassin (Ed.) A Companion to Moral
Anthropology. Wiley-Blackwell, 578 – 594.

Young, L. & Dungan, J. (2012). Where in the Brain is Morality? Everywhere and maybe
nowhere. Social Neuroscience, 7(1), 1 – 10.

Dungan, J., Young, L. (2011). Multiple Moralities: tensions and tradeoffs in moral psychology
and the law. Thurgood Marshall Law Review, 36, 177 – 195.

PAPERS UNDER REVIEW

Dungan, J.A., & Epley, N. Surprisingly Good Talk: Misunderstanding Others Creates a Barrier
to Constructive Confrontation. Paper under review.

Dungan, J.A., Munguia Gomez, D., & Epley, N. Too Reluctant to Reach Out? Receiving Social
Support is More Positive Than Expressers Expect. Paper under review.

SELECT WORKS IN PROGRESS

Dungan, J.A., & Epley, N. Courage Attribution Theory. Manuscript in preparation.

Dungan, J.A., & Epley, N. Extrinsic Incentive Biases in Judgements of Whistleblowing

Motivations. Data collection in progress.

Dungan, J.A., & Epley, N. Underestimating the Impact of Loyalty Concerns on Ethical Decision
Making. Data collection in progress.

Dungan, J.A., Klein, N., & O’Brien, E. Preference for Natural Over Effortful Empathy in Social
Judgment. Data collection in progress.

Goodwin, R.D., Dungan, J.A., Graham, J., & Diekmann, K.A. Loyalty, Psychological
Closeness, and Perceptions of Whistleblower Credibility. Data collection in progress.

CHAIRED SYMPOSIA

Dungan, J. (2019, August). Underestimating the Social Aspects of Social Interaction.

Symposium presented at the annual meeting of the Academy of Management, Boston, MA.
Speakers: Charlie Dorison, Martha Jeong, Erica Boothby, James Dungan

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Dungan, J. (2017, May). Tensions and Tradeoffs in Moral Psychology. Symposium presented at
the annual meeting of the Association for Psychological Science, Boston, MA.
Speakers: Alex Shaw, James Dungan, Brian Lickel, Erin Frey

CONFEERENCE PRESENTATIONS

Talks:
It’s Not My Place: Psychological Barriers to Expressing Social Support
• Academy of Management, Virtual Conference (Aug 2020)

We Need to Talk: Psychological Barriers to Constructive Confrontation

• Academy of Management, Boston, MA (Aug 2019)
• Midwestern Psychological Association, Chicago, IL (Apr 2019)
• Society for Personality and Social Psychology, Portland, OR (Feb 2019)

The Power of Moral Concerns in Predicting Whistleblowing Decisions

• Academy of Management, Boston, MA (Aug 2019)

Preference for Natural Over Effortful Empathy in Social Judgment

• Association for Psychological Science, Washington, D.C. (May 2019)

The Loyalty-Fairness Tradeoff

• Academy of Management, Atlanta, GA (Aug 2017)

When Mental States Matter for Moral Judgment

• Workshop on Biology and Ethics, Jerusalem, Israel (June 2017)
• Midwestern Psychological Association, Chicago, IL (Apr 2017)

Moral Tradeoffs Predict Decisions to Report Unethical Behavior

• Association for Psychological Science, Boston, MA (May 2017)

The Impact of Different Mental State Verbs on Theory of Mind

• Moral Psychology Research Group, Cambridge, MA (May 2016)

Violations of Expectation in Social and Nonsocial Contexts.

• Moral Psychology Research Group, Durham, NC (Apr 2014)

Purity Versus Pain: Distinct moral concerns for self versus other.
• Society for Personality and Social Psychology, New Orleans, LA (Jan 2013)

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• Society for Philosophy and Psychology, Boulder, CO (June 2012)
• Association for Psychological Science, Chicago, IL (May 2012)

Posters:
Believing It’s Not Your Place: Psychological Barriers to Expressing Social Support
• Society for Personality and Social Psychology, New Orleans, LA (Feb 2020)

Preference for Natural Over Effortful Empathy in Social Judgment.

• Society for Personality and Social Psychology, Portland, OR (Feb 2019)

Overestimating the Negative Consequences of Confrontation.

• Society for Judgment and Decision Making, New Orleans, LA (Nov 2018)

Why Intentions Matter Less When Judging Impurity Versus Harm: Testing Two Alternatives.
• Society for Personality and Social Psychology, San Antonio, TX (Jan 2017)

Investigating Theory of Mind Across Distinct Categories of Mental State Verbs.

• Society for Philosophy and Psychology, Austin, TX (June 2016)

Moral Tradeoffs Predict Decisions to Report Unethical Behavior.

• Society for Personality and Social Psychology, Long Beach, CA (Feb 2015)

Violations of Expectation in Social and Nonsocial Contexts.

• Moral Psychology Research Group, Durham, NC (Apr 2014)

How agents and objects violate our expectations.

• Cognitive Neuroscience Society, Boston, MA (Apr 2014)
• Society for Personality and Social Psychology, Austin, TX (Feb 2014)

Purity Versus Pain: Distinct moral concerns for self versus other.
• Boston Area Psychology Graduate Student Symposium, Boston, MA (May 2012)

INVITED TALKS

2019
• University of Chicago, Psychology and Law Students Group, (Mar)
2017
• University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicagoland Morality Researchers (Nov)
• University of Chicago, Department of Psychology Cognition Workshop (Sep)

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• University of Chicago, Center for Decision Research Behavioral Science Workshop (Sep)
• Brown University, FeldmanHall Lab (Mar)
2016
• University of Chicago, Psychology of Belief and Judgment Lab (Oct)
2015
• Boston College, Graduate Research Day (May)
• Boston College, Graduate Research Workshop (Apr)
• Harvard University, Moral Psychology Research Laboratory (Apr)
2014
• Boston College, Graduate Research Day (May)
• Boston College, Social Brain Sciences Symposium (Feb)
2013
• Boston College, Graduate Research Day (May)
2012
• Brown University, Moral Psychology Research Lab (Apr)
2011
• Boston University, Boston Area Morality Research Group (Nov)

GRANTS AND AWARDS

• National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship (2013 – 2016)

• Travel Award, Society for Personality and Social Psychology (2015)

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

Executive Training Workshop Developer, Second Science Project (2017 – 2019)

Developed and facilitated workshops for executives that combine behavioral insights with
improvisational exercises to teach interpersonal skills needed in today’s workplace. This
project is a collaboration between Chicago Booth and The Second City.

Teaching Assistant
• Designing a Good Life (Business Ethics), University of Chicago (2020)
• Managing in Organizations, University of Chicago (2019)
• Social Psychology, Boston College (2012, 2017)
• Psychology of Morality, Boston College (2012, 2016)
• Intro to Behavioral Research & Statistics II (Research Methods), Boston College (2013)
• Intro to Behavioral Statistics, Boston College (2011)

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Guest Lectures
• Moral Psychology
• The Evolution and Development of Human Morality
• Moral Emotions
• Shame and Guilt
• Correlation and Regression

Apprenticeship in College Teaching Certification Program (2013 – 2017)

Boston College, Center for Teaching Excellence

MENTORSHIP

Thesis Supervisor, MA Program in Social Sciences, University of Chicago (2019 – present)

C. Fong, H. Thomas, W. Zhang, K. Townsend

Undergraduate Thesis Advisor, Boston College (2012 – 2017)

K. Laurila, N. Blahunka, L. Anderson, G. Lewine, M. Stepanovic

Graduate Student Mentor, Boston College (2012 – 2017)

Advised undergraduates on navigating academia and post-graduation plans

SCIENCE COMMUNICATION AND MEDIA COVERAGE

Lead Science Consultant, CDR Behavioral Science Discovery Center (2020 – present)
Primary advisor guiding the prototyping and testing of behavioral science content for a
public-facing museum and research lab. Responsible for translating scientific principles
into language that is accurate and accessible to designers and the general public.

Editorials
• “The Whistle-Blower’s Quandary” The New York Times op-ed, Aug. 2, 2013. By Adam
Waytz, James Dungan, and Liane Young.

Selected Media Mentions

• Scientific American
• MarketWatch
• Chicago Booth Review
• Salt Lake Tribune
• Lexology

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PROFESSIONAL SERVICE

Affiliations
Academy of Management (AOM), Society for Judgment and Decision Making (SJDM),
International Association for Conflict Management (IACM), Society for Personality and
Social Psychology (SPSP), Association for Psychological Science (APS)

Reviewer
Nature Communications, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Judgement
and Decision Making, Organization Science, Organizational Psychology Review, Journal
of Personality and Social Psychology, PLoS ONE, Cognition, Cognitive Science, Social
Psychological and Personality Science, Personality & Social Psychology Review

Graduate Student Volunteer (2011 – 2017)

Volunteering for science outreach and mentorship events, including Brain Awareness
Week for elementary school children, Q&A panels for undergraduates, and serving as the
Social Psychology Area Representative for graduate students.

REFERENCES

Dr. Nicholas Epley

John Templeton Keller Professor of Behavioral Science
University of Chicago, Booth School of Business
5807 S Woodlawn Ave, Chicago, IL 60637
Office: (773) 834-1266
Email: epley@chicagobooth.edu

Dr. Liane Young

Associate Professor of Psychology
Boston College, Department of Psychology
140 Commonwealth Ave., Chestnut Hill, MA 02467
Office: (617) 552-1541
Email: liane.young@bc.edu

Dr. Adam Waytz

Professor of Management and Organizations
Northwestern University, Kellogg School of Management
Jacobs Center, Room 360, Evanston, IL 60208
Office: (847) 491-8074
Email: a-waytz@kellogg.northwestern.edu

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