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. Le Pargneux, A., Lie-Panis, J., Cashman, M., & Cushman, F. (2026). Modeling Fairness Judgments of Splits Between Multiple Parties. Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society.
  3. Kroupin, I., Zeng, T. C., Cashman, M., & Calcott, R. (2026). Studying integrated cultural-cognitive systems: Evolutionary, computational and empirical approaches. Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society (symposium).
  4. 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.
  5. 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.
  6. 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. [R&R, Journal of Consumer Research] Cashman, M., & Prelec, D. (2026). Motivating the Self-Interested Consumer: Choosing Early Promotes Prosocial Decisions.
  2. Cashman, M. (2026). Safe Collective Expression with Social Assurance Contracts.
  3. Cashman, M., Zeng, T. C., & Kroupin, I. (2026). Schooled Minds for Standardized Worlds: A Model of Cognitive Variation.
  4. Cashman, M. (2026). I’ll Move If You Move: Assurance Campaigns for Platform Migration.
  5. Cashman, M. (2026). Building Shared Reality After the Broadcast Era.
  6. Cashman, M. (2026). Conditional Disclosure as a Coordination Device.
  7. Hayes, T., Cashman, M., & Isoni, A. (2025). VEE: A Video Interaction Wrapper for the Online Lab.
  8. Cashman, M. (2024). Humans as Next-Token Predictors: Measuring the Flow of Memes Through Minds.