Matthew Cashman

Research

Publications

  1. Cashman, M., Maciejovsky, B., & Wernerfelt, B. (2026). Small talk as a contracting device: trust, cooperative norms, and changing equilibria. Journal of Law, Economics, and Organization.
  2. Voelkel, J. G., Stagnaro, M. N., Chu, J., Pink, S., Mernyk, J. S., Redekopp, C., Cashman, M., … Druckman, J. N., Rand, D. G., & Willer, R. (2024). Megastudy testing 25 treatments to reduce antidemocratic attitudes and partisan animosity. Science.
  3. Cashman, M., & Cushman, F. A. (2020). Learning from Moral Failure. In J. Schwenkler & E. Lambert (Eds.), Becoming Someone New: Essays on Transformative Experience, Choice, and Change. Oxford University Press.
  4. Cao, C., Cao, X., Cashman, M., Kumar, M., Timoshenko, A., Yang, J., Yu, S., Zhang, J., Zhu, Y., & Wernerfelt, B. (2019). How do successful scholars get their best research ideas? An exploration. Marketing Letters.

Selected Working Papers

  1. Cashman, M., Zeng, T. C., & Kroupin, I. (2026). Schooled Minds for Standardized Worlds: A Model of Cognitive Variation.
  2. Cashman, M. (2026). From Pluralistic Ignorance to Common Knowledge with Social Assurance Contracts.
  3. Cashman, M., & Prelec, D. (2026). Motivating the Self-Interested Consumer: Choosing Early Promotes Prosocial Decisions.
  4. Hayes, T., Cashman, M., & Isoni, A. (2025). VEE: A Video Interaction Wrapper for the Online Lab.
  5. Cashman, M. (2024). Humans as next-token predictors: Measuring the flow of memes through minds.