My research examines how people decide who is responsible for an outcome, highlighting distinctions between moral responsibility ("who is morally to blame?") and causal responsibility ("what sequence of events led to this?"), as well as retrospective responsibility ("why did this happen?") and prospective responsibility ("what should be done going forward?").
I am also passionate about inclusive, justice-oriented teaching.
Lewry, C. & Lombrozo, T. (2026). Responsibility for inequality: A framework and review. Perspectives on Psychological Science, 17456916251393206. (PDF)
Lewry, C., Asifriyaz, S., & Lombrozo, T. (2024). Lay theories of moral progress. Cognitive Science, 48, 11, e70018. (PDF)
Lewry, C., Tsai, G., & Lombrozo, T. (2024). Are ethical explanations explanatory? Meta-ethical beliefs shape judgments about explanations for social change. Cognition, 250, 105860. (PDF)
Lewry, C. & Lombrozo, T. (2025). What motivates individuals to engage in collective action? Moral responsibility, not causal responsibility, drives voting. In Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society (Vol. 47).
Lewry, C. & Lombrozo, T. (under review). Causal and moral responsibility play distinct roles in voting.
Lewry, C., Lombrozo, T., & Peretz-Lange, R. (in prep). How do perceived moral and causal responsibility shape children’s voting behaviors?
Lewry, C., Kelemen, D., & Lombrozo, T. (2023). The moral consequences of teleological beliefs about the human species. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 152(12), 3359–3379. (PDF)
Liquin, E. G., Callaway, F., Lewry, C., & Lombrozo, T. (under review) A computational approach to disentangling the triggers of curiosity in children and adults.
Lewry, C., Gorucu, S., Liquin, E.G., & Lombrozo, T. (2023). Minimally-counterintuitive stimuli trigger greater curiosity than merely improbable stimuli. Cognition, 230, 105286. (PDF)
Lewry, C., Curtis, K., Vasilyeva, N., Xu, F., & Griffiths, T. L. (2021). Intuitions about magic track the development of intuitive physics. Cognition, 214,104762. (PDF)