PUBLICATIONS 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 Cashman, M., Maciejovsky, B., Wernerfelt, B. 2023. Small talk as a contracting device:trust, cooperative norms, and changing equilibria. 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. 2023. Megastudy identifying successful interventions to strengthen Americans’ democratic attitudes. WORKING PAPERS Cashman, M. 2023. An information-theoretic measure of cultural success.