I. Edited Volumes

Prochownik, K., Magen. S. (2023) Advances in Experimental Philosophy of Law. Bloomsbury.

II. Peer-Reviewed Articles

Engelmann, N., De Almeida, G., Oliveira de Sousa, F., Prochownik, K., Magen, S., Struchiner, N. (2024), Apply the laws, if they are good: Moral evaluations linearly predict whether judges should enforce the law. Cognitive Science, 48: e70001. https://doi.org/10.1111/cogs.70001

Willemsen, P., Newen, A., Prochownik, K., & Kaspar, K. (2023). With great(er) power comes great(er) responsibility: an intercultural investigation of the effect of social roles on moral responsibility attribution. Philosophical Psychology,1–27. https://doi.org/10.1080/09515089.2023.2213277

Prochownik, K. (2022). “Big Gods” in ancient Mesopotamia: The cultural evolution of supernatural protectors [Special Issue: History and Historiography: The Interplay between Religion and Cognitive Science in Asian and Middle-Eastern Traditions]. Journal of Cognitive Historiography, 7(1-2), 117–146. https://doi.org/10.1558/jch.22650

Prochownik, K. (2021). The experimental philosophy of law: New ways, old questions, and how not to get lost. Philosophy Compass, 16(12), e12791. https://doi.org/10.1111/phc3.12791

Prochownik, K., Wiegmann, A., & Horvath, J. (2021). Blame blocking and expertise effects revisited. Proceedings of the 43th annual conference of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 2323-2329). Cognitive Science Society.

Prochownik, K., Krebs, M., Wiegmann, A. & Horvath, J. (2020). Not as bad as painted? Legal expertise, intentionality ascription, and outcome effects revisited. In S. Denison., M. Mack, Y. Xu, & B.C. Armstrong (Eds.), Proceedings of the 42nd annual conference of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 1930-1936). Cognitive Science Society.

Prochownik, K., & Cushman, F. A. (2019). Outcomes speak louder than actions? Testing a challenge to the two-process model of moral judgment. In A.K. Goel, C.M. Seifert, & C. Freksa (Eds.), Proceedings of the 41st annual conference of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 2606- 2612). Montreal, QB: Cognitive Science Society.

Prochownik, K., & Unterhuber, M. (2018). Does the blame blocking effect for assignments of punishment generalize to legal experts? In T.T. Rogers, M. Rau, X. Zhu, & C. W. Kalish (Eds.), Proceedings of the 40th annual conference of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 2285- 2290). Austin, TX: Cognitive Science Society.

III. Book chapters

Prochownik, K., Feiertag, R., Horvath, J., Wiegmann, A. (in press). How much harm does it take? An experimental study on legal expertise, the severity effect, and intentionality ascriptions. In K. Tobia (Ed.), Cambridge Handbook of Experimental Jurisprudence.

Prochownik, K. M. (2023). Introduction: The past and future of the experimental philosophy of law. In K. Prochownik, S. Magen (Eds.). Advances in Experimental Philosophy of Law (pp. 1- 24). Bloomsbury.

Hannikainen, I., Flanagan, B., & Prochownik, K. (2023). The natural law thesis under empirical scrutiny. In H. Viciana, G. Antonion & A. Fernando (Eds.), Experiments in Moral & Political Philosophy (pp. 23-42). Routledge.

Prochownik, K (2022). Causation in the law, and experimental philosophy. In P. Willemsen & A. Wiegmann (Eds.), Advances in experimental philosophy of causation (pp. 165-188). Bloomsbury.

Prochownik, K. (2019). Gods and goodness by the rivers of Babylon: A cognitive scientific approach to ancient Mesopotamian moral theology. In T. Oshima & S. Kohlhaas (Eds.), Teaching morality in antiquity: wisdom texts, images, and oral traditions (pp. 265- 287). Orientalische Religionen in der Antike. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck.

Prochownik, K. (2017). Do people with a legal background dually process? The role of causation, intentionality and pragmatic linguistic considerations in judgments of criminal responsibility. In J. Stelmach, B. Brożek & Ł. Kurek (Eds.), The province of jurisprudence naturalized (pp. 168-194). Warsaw: Wolters Kluwer.

III. Commentaries

Prochownik, K. (2019). Three questions about the social function of reason. Teorema: Revista Internacional de Filosofía, 38(1), 77-85 (book symposium on “The Enigma of Reason. A New Theory of Human Understanding” by Hugo Mercier and Dan Sperber).

White, C., Sousa P., & Prochownik, K. (2016). Explaining the success of karmic religions. Commentary on A. Norenzayan et al., The cultural evolution of prosocial religions. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 39, 42-43.

Sousa., P., & Prochownik, K. (2014). Religion, prosociality, assortative sociality, and the evolution of large-scale cooperation: A few remarks on Martin & Wiebe. Journal for the Cognitive Science of Religion, 2 (1), 42-48. [Republished in Martin, L. H., and Wiebe, D. (Eds.), (2016). Conversations and controversies in the scientific study of religion: collaborative and co-authored essays by Luther H. Martin and Donald Wiebe, pp. 174-180. Boston: Brill.]

Ingram, G., & Prochownik, K. (2014). Restrictive and dynamic conceptions of the unconscious: Perspectives from moral and developmental psychology. Commentary on B. R. Newell & D. R. Shanks, Unconscious influences on decision making: A critical review. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 37(01), 34–35.

Ingram, G., & Prochownik, K. (2013). The notion of “identity fusion” raises more questions than it answers. Commentary on H. Whitehouse, Three wishes for the world. Cliodynamics: The Journal of Theoretical and Mathematical History, 4 (2), 292–296.

IV. Reviews

Prochownik, K. (2017). God on the brain: Cognitive science and natural theology. Review of “A Natural History of Natural Theology: The Cognitive Science of Theology and Philosophy of Religion” by Helen De Cruz and Johan de Smedt (2014). Marginalia Review of Books. https://themarginaliareview.com/god-brain-cognitive-science-natural-theology/

V. Blogging

Prochownik, K. (2016). Can cultural epidemiology explain the cultural evolution of monsters? Commentary on David Wengrow’s “The Origins of Monsters. Image and Cognition in the First Age of Mechanical Reproduction” (2013).

Sousa, P., Prochownik, K. (2015). A few comments on ‘Speaking Our Minds’. Commentary on Thomas Scott-Phillips’ “Speaking Our Minds. Why Human Communication is Different, and How Language Evolved to Make it Special” (2014).