Projects

Scholarly Publications

In Press/Accepted

Keswani, V., Cousins, C., Nguyen, B. K., Conitzer, V., Heidari, H., Schaich Borg, J., & Sinnott-Armstrong, W. (2025). Moral Change or Noise? On Problems of Aligning AI With Temporally Unstable Human Feedback. AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence. https://doi.org/10.1609/aaai.v40i44.41083.

Keswani, V., Conitzer, V., Sinnott-Armstrong, W., Nguyen, B. K., Heidari, H. & Schaich Borg, J. (2024) Can AI Model the Complexities of Human Moral Decision-making? A Qualitative Study of Kidney Allocation Decisions. Proceedings of the CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI ’25) https://doi.org/10.1145/3706598.3714167.

Ratjen, L., Goddard, E., Gilcher, E. B., Nguyen, B. K., Backhaus, A., Kelley, M., Akalaonu, K., Feldman, H. S., Lascurain, M. L., Wyrtzen, N. E., Nyhan, K., Smith, S. S., Lowe, S. R., Prabhu, M., Chen, K., Zimmerman, J. B., and Anastas, P. T. (2024). EnvironMental Health: A Framework for an Emerging Field at the Nexus of Environment and Mental Health Crises. GeoHealth. http://dx.doi.org/10.1029/2024GH001254.

Nguyen, B. K., & Yildirim, I. (2024). An Intuitive Physics Approach to Modeling Melodic Expectation. Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 46. https://escholarship.org/uc/item/8ds971xf.


Under Review

Nguyen, B. K., Fuller, M. Sinnott-Armstrong, W., & Murray, S. (2025) The partisan penalty: The effect of partisanship on evaluating reasons for political belief. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. (Submitted)

Nguyen, B. K., & Yildirim. I. (2025) Probabilistic musical forces model: An Intuitive Physics Approach to Modeling Melodic Expectation. Journal of Experimental Psycholog: General.(Under Review)

Keswani, V., Nguyen, B. K., Cousins, C., Conitzer, V., Sinnott-Armstrong, W., & Schaich Borg, J. (2026). Position: We Need Practical AI Alignment Methods that Mirror Human Reasoning. International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML’26). (Under Review)

Mulcrone, D., Nguyen, B. K., & McKee, P. (2025) Moral Motivation: A Scoping Review Protocol. Frontiers in Psychology (Under Review)


In Prep

Nguyen, B. K. & Prinzing, M. (2024). What It Means To Be A True Badass: An Experimental Investigation Of The Ordinary Concept. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/542na.

Presentations

  • Nguyen, B. K. Beyond Advance Directives: A Machine Learning Tool to Aid End‑of‑Life Decisions in Dementia Care. Society-Centered AI Panel Research Spotlight Talk, 2026 Feb 12; BIOETHIC 603 Guest Lecture 2026 Feb 18; PHIL 515 Guest Lecture 2026 Mar 18.
  • Nguyen, B. K. & Murray, S. The partisan penalty: The effect of partisanship on evaluating reasons for political belief. Blitz Talk at: An Online Gathering for the Moral Psychology Research Group, 2025 Nov 8.
  • Nguyen, B. K., & Yildirim. I. An Intuitive Physics Approach to Modeling Melodic Expectation. Poster session presented at: the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2024 Jul 26, Rotterdam, Netherlands.
  • Nguyen, B. K., & Prinzing, M. What It Means to Be Badass. Poster session presented at: The Society for Personality and Social Psychology’s Annual Convention, 2024 Feb 9, San Diego, CA and The Society for Southeastern Social Psychologists Annual Meeting, 2023 Nov 4, Charlotte, NC.

In The Media

Other Publications

  • Nguyen, B. K., “The Nail Salon That Raised Me”. 295, 2024. https://issuu.com/yaleaacc/docs/295_2024_1_/9
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