Postdoctorate in Psychology, Northwestern University, 2010-2011
Contracts and Grants Awarded
Developing a Lexicon of Environmental Engagement and Attitudes, (Department of Agriculture), M. Dehghani $22,000, 2016-2019
CAREER: Developing Computational Methods to predict Hate Crimes, (National Science Foundation), M. Dehghani $711,000, 2018-2019
Language variety and fairness in cognitive testing, (National Institute of Health), J. Zevin $450,000, 2018-2019
Context-aware and Social/Cognitive-model-informed Multi-Genre Knowledge Networks Construction and Sy, (Army Research Lab), H. Ji $1,400,000, 2015-2018
Scienti c Insights on Human Nature and a New Economics of Cooperation and Conflict, (Institute for New Economic Thinking), A. Damasio $900,000, 2014-2018
The Spread and Impact of Moral Messages: Machine Learning, Network Evolution, and Behavioral Predict, (National Science Foundation), M. Dehghani $640,000, 2014-2018
Modeling and exploiting the social function of emotions in mixed human-machine teams, (AFOSR), J. Gratch $1,200,000, 2013-2018
“I Was Never the Same”: Development and Validation of a Text-Based Approach to Studying Transformati, (Templeton Foundation), J. Graham $153,986, 2014-2017
Applying Moral Pluralism to the Study of Self-Control, (Templeton Foundation), J. Graham $265,011, 2014-2017
Investigating & Modeling the Emergence of Counterfactual Reasoning, (ONR), H. Moll $750,000, 2013-2017
Developing a Lexicon of Environmental Engagement and Attitudes, (Department of Agriculture), Morteza Dehghani $12,000, 2016-2017
Religiosity, Culture and Decision Making, (AFOSR), Morteza Dehghani $360,000, 2011-2015
Culture-specific neurobiological models of the influence of narrative framing using sacred values, (DARPA), A. Gordon $1,900,000, 2011-2014
USC Funding
USC Collaboration Fund. Big Data and Human Behavior Speaker Series $22,900, 2014-2018
Book
Dehghani, M. & Boyd, R. (Ed.). (2022). The Atlas of Language Analysis in Psychology. Guilford Press.
Book Chapters
Hoover, J., Dehghani, M., Johnson, K., Iliev, R., Graham, J. (2016). Into The Wild: Big Data Analytics in Moral Psychology. Atlas of Moral Psychology
Dehghani, M., Forbus, K., Tomai, E., Klenk, M. (2011). An Integrated Reasoning Approachto Moral Decision-Making. Machine Ethics Cambridge University Press.
Journal Article
Hoover, J., Atari, M., Mostafazadeh Davani, A., Kennedy, B., Portillo-Wightman, G., Yeh, L., Dehghani, M. (2021). Investigating the role of group-based morality in extreme behavioral expressions of prejudice. Nature Communications. Vol. 12 (4585) (link)
Kennedy, B., Atari, M., Mostafazadeh Davani, A., Hoover, J., Omrani, A., Graham, J., Dehghani, M. (2021). Moral concerns are differentially observable in language. Cognition. Vol. 212 (pdf)
Atari, M., Mostafazadeh Davani, A., Kogon, D., Kennedy, B., Saxena, N. A., Anderson, I., Dehghani, M. (2021). Morally Homogeneous Networks and Radicalism. Social Psychological and Personality Science. (pdf)
Atari, M., Mostafazadeh Davani, A., Kogon, D., Kennedy, B., Saxena, N. A., Anderson, I., Dehghani, M. (2021). Morally Homogeneous Networks and Radicalism. Social Psychological and Personality Science. (pdf)
Atari, M., Graham, J., Dehghani, M. (2021). Toward a Cumulative Science of Non-WEIRD Morality: A Reply to Rezvani Nejad et al. Evolution and Human Behavior. (pdf)
Atari, M., Lai, M. H., Dehghani, M. Sex differences in moral judgements across 67 countries. Proceedings of the Royal Society B.. Vol. 287. 2020 (pdf)
Atari, M., Graham, J., Dehghani, M. (2020). Foundations of morality in Iran. Evolution and Human Behavior. Vol. 41 (5), pp. 367-384. (pdf)
Horowitz, E., Oyserman, D., Dehghani, M., Sorensen, N. (2020). Do you need a roadmap or can someone give you directions: When school-focused possible identities change so do academic trajectories. Journal of Adolescence. Vol. 79, pp. 26-38. (pdf)
Hoover, J., Dehghani, M. (2019). The Big, The Bad, and The Ugly: Geographic Estimation with Flawed Psychological Data. Psychological Methods.
Atari, M., Mostafazadeh Davani, A., Dehghani, M. (2019). Body Maps of Moral Concerns. Psychological Science.
Hoover, J., Portillo-Wightman, G., Yeh, L., Havaldar, S., Mostafazadeh Davani, A., Lin, Y., Kennedy, B., Atari, M., Kamel, Z., Mendlen, M., Moreno, G., Park, C., Chang, T. E., Chin, J., Leong, C., Leung, J. Y., Mirinjian, A., Dehghani, M. (2019). Moral Foundations Twitter Corpus: A collection of 35k tweets annotated for moral sentiment. Social Psychological and Personality Science.
Garten, J., Kennedy, B., Sagae, K., Dehghani, M. (2019). Measuring the Importance of Context when Modeling Language Comprehension. Behavior Research Methods. Vol. 51, pp. 480-492. (pdf)
Sachdeva, S., Boghrati, R., Dehghani, M. (2019). Testing the Influence of Purity-Based Interventions on Pro-environmental Behavior. Sustainability. Vol. 11 (6), pp. 1811. (link)
Johnson, K. M., Boghrati, R., Wakslak, C., Dehghani, M. (2019). Measuring Abstract Mindsets through Syntax: Automating the Linguistic Category Model. Social Psychological and Personality Science.
Garten, J., Kennedy, B., Hoover, J., Sagae, K., Dehghani, M. (2018). Incorporating Demographic Embeddings into Language Understanding. Cognitive Science. (pdf)
Mooijman, M., Hoover, J., Lin, Y., Ji, H., Dehghani, M. (2018). Moralization in social networks and the emergence of violent protests. Nature Human Behavior. Vol. 2, pp. 389–396. (pdf)
Hoover, J., Johnson, K., Boghrati, R., Graham, J., Dehghani, M. (2018). Moral Framing and Charitable Donation: Integrating Exploratory Social Media Analyses and Confirmatory Experimentation. Collabra: Psychology. Vol. 4 (1) (link)
Boghrati, R., Hoover, J., Johnson, K. M., Garten, J., Dehghani, M. (2017). Conversation level syntax similarity metric. Behavior Research Methods. (pdf)
Mooijman, M., Meindl, P., Oyserman, D., Monterosso, J., Dehghani, M., Dorris, J. M., Graham, J. (2017). Resisting temptation for the good of the group: Binding moral values and the moralization of self-control. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. (pdf)
Garten, J., Hoover, J., Johnson, K., Boghrati, R., Iskiwitch, C., Dehghani, M. (2017). Dictionaries and Distributions: Combining Expert Knowledge and Large Scale Textual Data Content Analysis. Behavior Research Methods. (pdf)
Dehghani, M., Boghrati, R., Man, K., Hoover, J., Gimbel, S. R., Vaswani, A., Zevin, J. D., Immordino-Yang, M. H., Gordon, A. S., Damasio, A., Kaplan, J. T. (2017). Decoding the Neural Representation of Story Meanings across Languages. Human Brain Mapping. (pdf)
Iliev, R., Hoover, J., Dehghani, M., Axelrod, R. (2016). Linguistic positivity in historical texts reflects dynamic environmental and psychological factors. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. (pdf)
Dehghani, M., Johnson, K. M., Garten, J., Boghrati, R., Hoover, J., Balasubramanian, V., Singh, A., Shankar, Y., Pulickal, L., Rajkumar, A., Parmar, N. J. (2016). TACIT: An open-source text analysis, crawling, and interpretation tool. Behavior research methods. PubMed Web Address(pdf)
Dehghani, M., Johnson, K., Hoover, J., Sagi, E., Garten, J., Parmar, N. J., Vaisey, S., Iliev, R., Graham, J. (2016). Purity Homophily in Social Networks. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General. PubMed Web Address(pdf)
Kaplan, J. T., Gimbel, S. I., Dehghani, M., Immordino-Yang, M. H., Sagae, K., Wong, J. D., Tipper, C. M., Damasio, H., Gordon, A. S., Damasio, A. (2016). Processing Narratives Concerning Protected Values: A Cross-Cultural Investigation of Neural Correlates. Cerebral cortex (New York, N.Y. : 1991). PubMed Web Address(pdf)
Krämer, N. C., Karacora, B., Lucas, G., Dehghani, M., Rüther, G., Gratch, J. (2016). Closing the gender gap in STEM with friendly male instructors? On the effects of rapport behavior and gender of a virtual agent in an instructional interaction. Computers & Education. Vol. 99, pp. 1-13. (pdf)
Sachdeva, S., Iliev, R., Ekhtiari, H., Dehghani, M. (2015). The Role of Self-Sacrifice in Moral Dilemmas. PloS one. Vol. 10(6) (e0127409) Plos One
Dehghani, M., Khooshabeh, P., Nazerian, A., Gratch, J. (2014). The Subtlety of Sound: Accent as a Marker for Culture. Journal of Language and Social Psychology. (pdf)
Dehghani, M., Carnevale, P. J., Gratch, J. (2014). Interpersonal effects of expressed anger and sorrow in morally charged negotiation. Judgment and Decision Making. Vol. 9 (2), pp. 104-113. (pdf)
Dehghani, M., Sagae, K., Sachdeva, S., Gratch, J. (2014). Analyzing Political Rhetoric in Conservative and Liberal Weblogs Related to the Construction of the “Ground Zero Mosque”. Journal of Information Technology & Politics. Vol. 11 (1), pp. 1-14. (pdf)
Khooshabeh, P., Dehghani, M., Nazarian, A., Gratch, J. (2014). The cultural influence model: When accented natural language spoken by virtual characters matters. Journal of Artificial Intelligence and Society. (pdf)
Sagi, E., Dehghani, M. (2014). Measuring moral rhetoric in text. Social Science Computer Review. Vol. 32 (2), pp. 132-144. (pdf)
Iliev, R., Dehghani, M., Sagi, E. (2014). Automated Text Analysis in Psychology: Methods, Applications, and Future Developments. Language and Cognition. (pdf)
Dehghani, M., Bang, M., Medin, D., Marin, A., Leddon, E., Waxman, S. (2013). Epistemologies in the Text of Children’s Books: Native-and non-Native-authored books. International Journal of Science Education. Vol. 35 (13), pp. 2133-2151. (pdf)
Dehghani, M., Iliev, R., Kaufmann, S. (2012). Causal explanation and fact mutability in counterfactual reasoning. Mind & Language. Vol. 27 (1), pp. 55-85. (pdf)
Dehghani, M., Atran, S., Iliev, R., Sachdeva, S., Medin, D., Ginges, J. (2010). Sacred values and conflict over Iran’s nuclear program. Judgment and Decision Making. Vol. 5 (7), pp. 540-546. (pdf)
Dehghani, M., Iliev, R., Sachdeva, S., Atran, S., Ginges, J., Medin, D. (2009). Emerging sacred values: The Iranian nuclear program. Judgment and Decision Making. Vol. 4, pp. 990-993. (pdf)
Ekhtiari, H., Behzadi, A., Dehghani, M., Jannati, A., Mokri, A. (2009). Prefer a cash slap in your face over credit for halva. Judgment and Decision Making. Vol. 4 (7), pp. 534-542. (pdf)
Proceedings
Mostafazadeh Davani, A., Omrani, A., Kennedy, B., Atari, M., Ren, X., Dehghani, M. (2021). Improving Counterfactual Generation for Fair Hate Speech Detection. In Proceedings of ACL’s Workshop on Online Abuse and Harm.
Kennedy, B., Jin, X., Mostafazadeh Davani, A., Dehghani, M., Ren, X. (2020). ContextualizingHate Speech Classifiers with Post-hoc Explanation. Proceedings of the 58th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL).
Mostafazadeh Davani, A., Yeh, L., Atari, M., Kennedy, B., Portillo-Wightman, G., Gonzalez, E., Delong, N., Bhatia, R., Mirinjian, A., Ren, X., Dehghani, M. (2019). Reporting the Unreported: Event Extraction for Analyzing the Local Representation of Hate Crimes. Hong Kong, China. In the Proceedings of Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP).
Chambers, M. K., Mostafazadeh Davani, A., Goodwin, A., Dodson, S., Yeh, L., Dehghani, M., Graham, J., Diekmann, K. A. (2019). The Power of Silence: Using Sentiment Text Analysis to Examine Twitter Responses to Sexual Harassment Accounts. Dublin. International Association for Conflict Management (IACM).
Courtland, M., Mostafazadeh Davani, A., Reyes, M., Yeh, L., Leung, J., Kennedy, B., Dehghani, M., Zevin, J. (2019). Modeling performance differences on cognitive tests using LSTMs and skip-thought vectors trained on reported media consumption. In the Proceedings of NLP+CSS: Workshops on Natural Language Processing and Computational Social Science.
Courtland, M., Mostafazadeh Davani, A., Reyes, M., Yeh, J., Leung, L., Kennedy, B., Dehghani, M., Zevin, J. (2019). Subtle differences in language experience moderate performance on language-based cognitive tests. In the Proceedings of 31st Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society.
Lin, Y., Hoover, J., Portillo-Wightman, G., Park, C., Dehghani, M., Ji, H. (2018). Acquiring Background Knowledge to Improve Moral Value Prediction. 2018 IEEE/ACM InternationalConference on Advances in Social Networks Analysis and Mining (ASONAM2018). (pdf)
Boghrati, R., Dehghani, M. (2018). Follow my Language! Effect of Power Relations on Syntactic Alignment. The proceedings of 30th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (CogSci). (pdf)
Garten, J., Kennedy, B., Hoover, J., Sagae, K., Dehghani, M. (2018). Language in Context: Incorporating Demographic Embeddings into Language Understanding. In the proceedings of 30th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (CogSci).
Chang, C., Brixey, J., Gibson, J., Dehghani, M. (2018). Using linguistic features influenced by cognitive mechanisms to identify polite and frustrated speech in children. In the proceedings of 30th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (CogSci). (pdf)
Garten, J., Sagae, K., Kamel, Z., Awasthi, N., Dehghani, M. (2017). The Role of Party and Incumbency in Identification of Argumentation Strategies in Political Debate. In the Proceedings of NLP+CSS: Workshops on Natural Language Processing and Computational Social Science.
Boghrati, R., Johnson, K., Dehghani, M. (2017). Syntactic Alignment in Power Relations. In the Proceedings of NLP+CSS: Workshops on Natural Language Processing and Computational Social Science.
Kim, E., Gimbel, S., Litvinova, A., Kaplan, J., Dehghani, M. (2017). Decoding Virtual Agent’s Emotion and Strategy from Brain Patterns. In the proceedings of 38th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (CogSci). (pdf)
Kim, E., Gilbert, J., Horowitz, C., Gratch, J., Kaplan, J. T., Dehghani, M. (2017). Decoding Partner Type in Human-Agent Negotiation using functional MRI. In the proceedings of 38th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (CogSci). (pdf)
Johnson, K. M., Boghrati, R., Wakslak, C., Dehghani, M. (2017). Measuring Abstract Mindsets through Syntax: Improvements in Automating the Linguistic Category Model. In the proceedings of 38th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (CogSci).
Boghrati, R., Johnson, K. M., Dehghani, M. (2017). Generalized Representation of Syntactic Structures. In the proceedings of 38th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (CogSci). (pdf)
Hoover, J., Horton, K., Dehghani, M. (2017). The Meanings of Morality: Investigating the psychometric properties of distributed representations of latent moral concepts. In the proceedings of 38th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (CogSci).
Garten, J., Boghrati, R., Hoover, J., Johnson, K. M., Dehghani, M. (2016). Morality Between the Lines: Detecting Moral Sentiment in Text. In the proceedings of IJCAI 2016 workshop on Computational Modeling of Attitudes. (pdf)
Kim, E., Gimbel, S., Litvinova, A., Kaplan, J., Dehghani, M. (2016). Predicting Decision in Human-Agent Negotiation using functional MRI. In the proceedings of 37th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (CogSci). (pdf)
Boghrati, R., Hoover, J., Johnson, K. M., Garten, J., Dehghani, M. (2016). Syntax Accommodation in Social Media Conversations. In the proceedings of 37th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. (pdf)
Boghrati, R., Garten, J., Litvinova, A., Dehghani, M. (2015). Incorporating Background Knowledge into Text Classification. In the proceedings of 37th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. (pdf)
Garten, J., Sagae, K., Ustun, V., Dehghani, M. (2015). Combining distributed vector representations for words. NAACL Vector Space Modeling for NLP. (pdf)
Sagi, E., Dehghani, M. (2014). Moral Rhetoric in Twitter: A Case Study of the US Federal Shutdown of 2013. In the proceedings of 36th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. (pdf)
Kim, E., Dehghani, M., Kim, Y. K., Carnevale, P. J., Gratch, J. (2014). E ffects of Moral Concerns on Negotiations. In To be published in In the proceedings of 36th Annual Conference of the CognitiveScience Society (CogSci (Ed.), In the proceedings of 36th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (CogSci). (pdf)
Dehghani, M., Immordino-Yang, M. H., Graham, J., Marsella, S., Forbus, K., Ginges, J., Tambe, M., Maheswaran, R. (2013). Computational Models of Moral Perception, Conflict and Elevation. Proceedings of the International Association for Computing and Philosophy (IACAP). (pdf)
Gratch, J., Hartholt, A., Dehghani, M., Marsella, S. (2013). Virtual Humans: A New Toolkit for Cognitive Science Research. pp. 215-233. In the proceedings of 35th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. (pdf)
Sagae, K., Gordon, A. S., Dehghani, M., Metke, M., Kim, J. S., Gimbel, S. I., Tipper, C., Kaplan, J., Immordino-Yang, M. H. (2013). A Data-Driven Approach for Classification of Subjectivity in Personal Narratives. Proceedings of the 2013 Workshop on Computational Models of Narrative. (pdf)
Salehi, N., Dehghani, M. (2013). The Rich Who Have the Humility of the Poor: Effects of Culture and Power on Altruism. In the proceedings of 35th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. (pdf)
Dehghani, M., Gratch, J., Carnevale, P. (2012). Interpersonal Effects of Emotions in Morally-charged Negotiations. Proceedings of CogSci 2012. (pdf)
Dehghani, M., Khooshabeh, P., Huang, L., Nazarian, A., Gratch, J. (2012). Using Accent to Induce Cultural Frame-Switching. Proceedings of CogSci 2012. (pdf)
Karacora, B., Dehghani, M., Krämer-Mertens, N., Gratch, J. (2012). The influence of virtual agents’ gender and rapport on enhancing math performance. pp. 563-568. Proceedings of the 34th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society. (pdf)
Carnevale, P. J., Kim, Y. K., De Melo, C. M., Dehghani, M., Gratch, J. (2011). These Are Ours: The Effects of Ownership and Groups on Property Negotiation. Appeared in The 24th Annual Conference of the International Association for Conflict Management. (pdf)
Dehghani, M., Gratch, J., Sachdeva, S., Sagae, K. (2011). Analyzing Conservative and Liberal Blogs Related to the Construction of the Ground Zero Mosque. pp. 1853-1858. Proceedings of the 33rd Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. (pdf)
Dehghani, M., Khooshabeh, P., Huang, L., Oganseyan, L., Gratch, J. (2011). Cultural frame-switching using accented spoken language by a virtual character. Workshop on Culturally Motivated Virtual Characters, IVA.
Dehghani, M., Forbus, K. (2009). QCM: A QP-based concept map system. Proceedings of the 23nd International Workshop on Qualitative Reasoning. (pdf)
Dehghani, M., Gentner, D., Forbus, K., Ekhtiari, H., Sachdeva, S. (2009). Analogy and moral decision making. In Proceedings of the 2nd International Analogy Conference. (pdf)
Dehghani, M., Iliev, R., Kaufmann, S. (2009). Causal Explanations in Counterfactual Reasoning. Proceedings of the Thirty-First Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, Amsterdam, Netherlands. (pdf)
Dehghani, M., Sachdeva, S., Ekhtiari, H., Gentner, D., Forbus, K. (2009). The role of cultural narratives in moral decision making. pp. 1912-1917. Proceedings of the 31th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. (pdf)
Dehghani, M., Tomai, E., Forbus, K., Iliev, R., Klenk, M. (2008). MoralDM: a computational modal of moral decision-making. Proceedings of the 30th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (CogSci-08). (pdf)
Dehghani, M., Tomai, E., Forbus, K., Klenk, M. (2008). Order of Magnitude Reasoning in Modeling Moral Decision-Making. 22nd International Workshop on Qualitative Reasoning. (pdf)
Dehghani, M., Tomai, E., Forbus, K. D., Klenk, M. (2008). An Integrated Reasoning Approach to Moral Decision-Making. pp. 1280-1286. AAAI. (pdf)
Lockwood, K., Lovett, A., Forbus, K., Dehghani, M., Usher, J. (2008). A Theory of Depiction for Sketches of Physical Systems. Proceedings of QR 2008. (pdf)
Lockwood, K., Lovett, A., Forbus, K., Dehghani, M., Usher, J. (2008). Automatic interpretation of depiction conventions in sketched diagrams. pp. 167-173. Proceedings of the Fifth Eurographics conference on Sketch-Based Interfaces and ModelingEurographics Association. (pdf)
Lovett, A., Dehghani, M., Forbus, K. (2008). Building and comparing qualitative descriptions of three-dimensional design sketches. In Proceedings of the AAAI Spring Symposium on Control Mechanisms for Spatial Knowledge Processing in Cognitive / Intelligent Systems.. (pdf)
Dehghani, M., Iliev, R., Kaufmann, S. (2007). Effects of fact mutability in the interpretation of counterfactuals. Proceedings of the Twenty-Ninth Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, Nashville, TN. (pdf)
Dehghani, M., Unsworth, S., Lovett, A., Forbus, K. D. (2007). Capturing and Categorizing Mental Models of Food Webs using QCM. In Proceedings of the 21st International Workshop on Qualitative Reasoning. (pdf)
Forbus, K. D., Lockwood, K., Tomai, E., Dehghani, M., Czyz, J. (2007). Machine Reading as a Cognitive Science Research Instrument. pp. 55-60. AAAI Spring Symposium: Machine Reading. (pdf)
Lovett, A., Dehghani, M., Forbus, K. (2007). Incremental learning of perceptual categories for open-domain sketch recognition. In Proceedings of the International Joint Conferences on Artificial Intelligence. (pdf)
Lovett, A., Dehghani, M., Forbus, K. (2007). Constructing spatial representations of variable detail for sketch recognition. In Proceedings of the AAAI Spring Symposium on Control Mechanisms for Spatial Knowledge Processing in Cognitive / Intelligent Systems. (pdf)
Lovett, A., Lockwood, K., Dehghani, M., Forbus, K. (2007). Modeling human-like rates of learning via analogical generalization. pp. 35. In Proceedings of Analogies: Integrating Multiple Cognitive Abilities. (pdf)
Dehghani, M., Lovett, A. M. (2006). Efficient Genre Classification using Qualitative Representations. pp. 353-354. In Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Music Information Retrieval. (pdf)
Lovett, A., Dehghani, M., Forbus, K. (2006). Efficient learning of qualitative descriptions for sketch recognition. In Proceedings of the 20th International Workshop on Qualitative Reasoning (QR’06). (pdf)
Other
Dehghani, M. (2009). A cognitive model of recognition-based moral decision making. Northwestern University. (pdf)
Air Force Office of Scientific Research Young Investigator Award, 2012-2013
