PUBLICATIONS 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 Cashman, M. & Prelec, D. 2024. Acting as if drives cooperation among the purely self-interested [R&R J.LEO] Cashman, M., Maciejovsky, B., Wernerfelt, B. 2023. Small talk as a contracting device: trust, cooperative norms, and changing equilibria. WORKING PAPERS Cashman, M. 2023. Humans as next-token predictors: Measuring the flow of memes through minds.