Dhaliwal, N., Jordan, J. J., Kiyawat, A., & Barclay, P. (Working Paper) Immodest victims: Victims who broadcast their victimization are seen as less morally virtuous. URL

Jordan, J. J. & Kteily, N. S. (2025). Punitive but discerning: Reputation can fuel ambiguously-deserved punishment, but does not erode sensitivity to nuance. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 128 (5), 1072–1102. URL PDF

Ghezae, I. *, Jordan, J. J. *, Gainsburg, I. B., Mosleh, M., Pennycook, G., Willer, R., & Rand, D. G. (2024). Partisans neither expect nor receive reputational rewards for sharing falsehoods over truth online. PNAS Nexus, 3 (8). URL PDF 

Jordan, J. J. & Sommers, R. (2024). Sexual assault victims face a penalty for adjacent consent. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 121 (34). URL PDF

Jordan, J. J. (2023). A pull versus push framework for reputation. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 27 (9), 66-82. URL PDF

Jordan, J. J. & Kteily, N. S. (2023). How reputation does (and does not) drive people to punish without looking. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 120 (28). URL PDF

Kassirer, S., Jordan, J. J., & Kouchaki, M. (2023). Giving-by-proxy triggers subsequent charitable behavior. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 105 (104438). URL PDF

Jordan, J. & Sommers, R. (2022). When does moral engagement risk triggering a hypocrisy penalty? Current Opinion in Psychology, 47. URL PDF

Jordan, J. J. & Kouchaki, M. (2021). Virtuous Victims. Science Advances, 7 (42) URL PDF

Jordan, J. J., Yoeli, E., & Rand, D. G. (2021). Don't Get It or Don't Spread It: Comparing Self-interested versus Prosocial Motivations for COVID-19 Prevention Behaviors. Scientific Reports, 11. URL PDF

Capraro, V. *, Jordan, J. J. *, & Tappin, B. M. *. (2021). Does observability amplify sensitivity to moral frames? Evaluating a reputation-based account of moral preferences. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology , 94. PDF

Jordan, J. J. & Rand, D. G. (2019). Signaling when nobody is watching: A reputation heuristics account of outrage and punishment in one-shot anonymous interactions. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. PDF

Martin, J. W. *, Jordan, J. J. *, Rand, D. G., & Cushman, F. (2019). When do we punish people who don’t? Cognition. PDF

Jordan, J. J. (2018). Which accusations stick? Nature Human Behaviour, 2, 19-20. PDF

Jordan, M. R. *, Jordan, J. J. *, & Rand, D. G. (2017). No unique effect of intergroup competition on cooperation: Noncompetitive thresholds are as effective as competitions between groups for increasing human cooperative behavior. Evolution and Human Behavior, 38 (1), 102-108. PDF

Jordan, J. J., Sommers, R., Bloom, P., & Rand, D. G. (2017). Why do we hate hypocrites? Evidence for a theory of false signaling. Psychological Science, 28 (3), 356-368. PDF

Jordan, J. J. & Rand, D. G. (2017). Third-party punishment as a costly signal of high continuation probabilities in repeated games. Journal of Theoretical Biology, 421, 189-202. PDF

Perc, M., Jordan, J. J., Rand, D. G., Wang, Z., Boccaletti, S., & Szolnoki, A. (2017). Statistical physics of human cooperation. Physics Reports, 687, 1-51. PDF

Jordan, J.J., Hoffman, M., Bloom, P., & Rand, D. G. (2016). Third-party punishment as a costly signal of trustworthiness. Nature, 530, 473-476. PDF

Jordan, J. J., Hoffman, M., Nowak, M. A., & Rand, D. G. (2016). Uncalculating cooperation is used to signal trustworthiness. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 113 (31), 8658–8663. PDF

McAuliffe, K., Jordan, J. J., & Warneken, F. (2015). Costly third-party punishment in young children. Cognition, 134, 1-10. PDF

Jordan, J. J., McAuliffe, K., & Rand, D. G. (2015). The effects of endowment size and strategy method on third-party punishment. Experimental Economics, 19 (4), 741-763. PDF

Jordan, J. J., McAuliffe, K., & Warneken, F. (2014). Development of in-group favoritism in children’s third-party punishment of selfishness. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 111 (35), 12710-12715. PDF

Capraro, V., Jordan, J. J., & Rand, D. G. (2014). Heuristics guide the implementation of social preferences in one-shot prisoner’s dilemma experiments. Scientific Reports, 4. PDF

Jordan, J. J., D.G., R., Arbesman, S., Fowler, J. H., & Christakis, N. A. (2013). Contagion of cooperation in static and fluid social networks. PLoS ONE, 8 (6), 1-10 PDF

Jordan, J. J., Peysakhovich, A., & Rand, D. G. (2015). Why we cooperate. In The Moral Brain: Multidisciplinary Perspectives. (pp. 87-101) . Cambridge: MIT Press. PDF

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