I am a postdoctoral fellow in the Social Cognitive Science Lab at Harvard University advised by Fiery Cushman. I completed my PhD
in the Behavioural Science Group at Warwick Business School advised by Nick Chater and Hossam Zeitoun and funded by the ESRC.
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I work on moral cognition and judgment and decision making. I use a combination of experimental, computational, and philosophical methods to study the cognitive processes involved in how people make moral judgments and decisions.
Peer-reviewed journal publications
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Le Pargneux, A., & Cushman, F. (2025). Moral judgment is sensitive to bargaining power. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 154(1), 263–278. https://doi.org/10.1037/xge0001678
Le Pargneux, A., Chater, N., & Zeitoun, H. (2024). Contractualist tendencies and reasoning in moral judgment and decision making. Cognition, 249, 105838. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cognition.2024.105838
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Le Pargneux, A., & Zeitoun, H. (2022). Patience and subjective well-being. Applied Economics Letters, 30(14), 1923–1929.
https://doi.org/10.1080/13504851.2022.2083566
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Peer-reviewed conference papers
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Le Pargneux, A., Levine, S., Tenenbaum, J. B., Cushman, F. A. (2025). The trade-off between rule-based thinking and mutual benefit in tacit coordination. Accepted for publication in Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 47. (full paper accepted: .pdf)
Le Pargneux, A., Zeitoun, H., Konstantinidis, E., & Chater, N. (2024). Coordination in dynamic interactions by converging on tacitly agreed joint plans. Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 46. https://escholarship.org/uc/item/5tg7135f
Le Pargneux, A., Cushman, F. A. (2024). Bargaining power, outside options, and moral judgment. Accepted for publication in Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 46.
https://escholarship.org/uc/item/08s278pt (full paper accepted: .pdf)
Le Pargneux, A., Chater, N., & Zeitoun, H. (2022). Contractualist concerns shape moral decisions and moral judgments. Accepted for publication in Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 44. https://escholarship.org/uc/item/6sw8750n (full paper accepted: .pdf)
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Commentaries​
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Le Pargneux, A. (in press). Contractarian partiality, contractualist impartiality, and the question of falsifiability. Behavioral and Brain Sciences. [Commentary on Levine et al.]
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Manuscripts under review and working papers
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Le Pargneux, A., Cushman, F. A., Zeitoun, H., & Chater, N. (under review). From team rationality to morality: Implicit joint plans carry moral force. PsyArXiv. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/rm5fc
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Le Pargneux, A., Roberts-Gaal, X., & Cushman, F. A. (2025, May 16). How the logic of bargaining shapes moral intuitions about resource divisions. PsyArXiv. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/3uqks_v1
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Le Pargneux, A. (under review). Contractualist moral cognition: From the normative to the descriptive at three levels of analysis.​