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.

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)

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.

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., & Yildirim. I. (2025) Probabilistic musical forces model: An Intuitive Physics Approach to Modeling Melodic Expectation. Cognition.

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

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

In Prep

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

Presentations

  • 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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