PUBLICATIONS

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Voelkel, J.G., Stagnaro, M.N., Chu, J., Pink, S., Mernyk, J.S., Redekopp, C., Cashman, M., [Qualifying Strengthening Democracy Challenge Submitters], Druckman, J.N., Rand, D.G., Willer, R. (2024). Megastudy testing 25 treatments to reduce antidemocratic attitudes and partisan animosity. Science, 386(6719), eadh4764.

Cashman, M. P. & Cushman, F. A. (2020). Learning from Moral Failure. In Schwenkler, John & Lambert, Enoch (eds.) Becoming Someone New: Essays on Transformative Experience, Choice, and Change. Oxford University Press.

Cao, C., Cao, X., Cashman, M. et al. How do successful scholars get their best research ideas? An exploration. Mark Lett 30, 221–232 (2019).

UNDER REVIEW

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Cashman, M. & Prelec, D. 2025. The Positional Order Effect: How Sequential Timing and Self-Interest Drive Prosocial Consumer Choice

[Conditional acceptance, J.LEO] Cashman, M., Maciejovsky, B., Wernerfelt, B. 2025. Small talk as a contracting device: trust, cooperative norms, and changing equilibria.

WORKING PAPERS

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Cashman, M. 2025. From Pluralistic Ignorance to Common Knowledge with Social Assurance Contracts.

Cashman, M. 2024. Humans as next-token predictors: Measuring the flow of memes through minds.