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Cillian McHugh

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20172026

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Research Interests

Moral Psychology:
- Moral Judgement / Categorization
- Moral Dumbfounding
- Morality and Meaning
- Moral Networks
Theoretical Interests:
- Concepts and Categories
- Judgement and Decision Making
- Ecological Psychology
- Embodiment

Biography

I am an Experimental Psychologist specialising in cognitive and social psychology. I have worked with a diverse range of research techniques, and I have applied experience in the development of new methods and materials. The main focus of my research to date has been on morality and moral judgement. My interests extend beyond the moral domain to include learning and knowledge acquisition, categorisation, skill/expertise, meaning, motivation, and memory. My theoretical interests include Ecological Psychology, Embodiment, and Dynamical Systems.
I graduated with a Ph.D. in October 2018. My thesis examined the phenomenon of moral dumbfounding; when a person defends a moral judgement in the absence of reasons. The dumbfounding paradigm has been influential in moral psychology; however, there is limited empirical work investigating it. This has meant that the main focus of my work to date has been testing, and attempting to understand the phenomenon.

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  • Effects of Psychological Distance on Mental Abstraction: A Registered Report of Four Tests of Construal-Level Theory

    Calderon, S., Mac Giolla, E., Ask, K., Adler, S. J., Agerström, J., Akpınar, B., Albayrak, N., Alparone, F. R., Amin, S., Aquino, A., Bachet, M., Baisile, B., Bausenhart, K. M., Beylat, M., Bialobrzeska, O., Bloomfield, E. C., Boecker, L., Bonora, M., Brady, S. T. & Branch, J. G. & 156 others, Brandy, N. E., Bui, K. T., Bustos-Ortega, M., Caballero, A., Cai, A., Cantarero, K., Cárdenas, S. A., Carrera, P., Chang, J. T., Chao, H. F., Christy, A. G., Cook, J. A., Dang, J., Danielson, S., Davis, W. E., de Boer, C., de Groot, E., Derrick, J. L., Dittmar, S., Döring, T., Douilliez, C., Egger, M., Escher, Y. A., Evans, T. R., Fabiani, S., Feldman, G., Fernandez, N., Fischer, J., Formanowicz, M., Friese, M., Fuglestad, P. T., Gaboriaud, A., Gale, J., Gamrát, R., Genschow, O., Ghasemi, O., Giacomantonio, M., Gieseler, K., Greijdanus, H., Griffin, S. M., Gül, D., Gunaydin, G., Haasova, S., Halkias, G., Hawk, C. E., Helfers, A., Hernandez, C. L., Hess, Y. D., Horgos, P. J., Hrymchak, Y., Huff, M., Ildırım, E., Jokić, B., Julliard, Y., Kacˇmár, P., Kaup, B., Kim, H., Kim, K., Kingstone, A., Koç, K., Koppel, L., Körner, A., Kovácˇová Holevová, B., Labor, P. D., Laforet, B. D., Lalot, F., Lamm, L., Laurent, S. M., Lee, S. T. H., Lee, Y. C., Lemay, E. P., Lin, Z., Lin, Y. K., Long, J. X., Loschelder, D. D., Makri, K., Manley, H., Maugeri, N., McCarthy, R. J., McHugh, C., Miazek, K., Milyavskaya, M., Morvinski, C., Muchová, M., Muftareviç, S., Muller, D., Nave, G., Newell, B. R., Nurra, C., Ouellet, M., Özdoğru, A. A., Pagnani, M., Paolini, D., Papenmeier, F., Petrowsky, H. M., Pfattheicher, S., Picado, J. C., Pickering, R. M., Purić, D., Quiamzade, A., Ramsay, J. E., Renaud, T. N., Romero-Sánchez, M., Ross, R. M., Sánchez-Rodríguez, Á., Santiago, J., Sarstedt, M., Scally, L., Scandola, M., Schachtner, J. P. M., Schindler, S., Segerberg, A., Selcuk, E., Sevillano, V., Shalev, E., Shao, X., Shaw, S. D., Shi, K., Siem, B., Solana, P., Soliman, M., Solmazer, G., Sonmez, F., Stanley, S. K., Steinmetz, J., Stivers, A. W., Szymkow, A., Tagand, M., Tan, Y. Z., Terzi, H., Tian, M., Tinghög, G., Tran, U. S., Urschler, D. F., VanHorn, D. R., Västfjäll, D., Verschuere, B., Verschueren, A., Vlad, A. L., Voracek, M., Wang, X., Wang, D., Warmelink, L., Wee, A. K. J., Lee Wichman, A., Wiechert, S., Woltin, K. A., Wong, H. K., Xu, J., Yao, Z. F., Yeung, S. K., Yogeeswaran, K., Žeželj, I., Zhang, Q., Ziegler, R. & Luke, T. J., 1 Apr 2026, In: Advances in Methods and Practices in Psychological Science. 9, 2

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  • Investigating the replicability of the social and behavioural sciences

    Tyner, A. H., Abatayo, A. L., Daley, M., Field, S., Fox, N., Haber, N. A., Hahn, K. M., Struhl, M. K., Mawhinney, B., Miske, O., Silverstein, P., Soderberg, C. K., Stankov, T., Abbasi, A., Aberson, C. L., Aczel, B., Adamkovič, M., Albayrak, N., Allen, P. J. & Andreychik, M. & 272 others, Awtrey, E., Axxe, E., Azevedo, F., Bader, M. D., Bago, B., Bailey, J., Bakker, M., Banik, G., Banks, G. C., Baskin, E., Batruch, A., Beatteay, A., Behr, S. M., Berente, N., Berry, Z., Białkowski, J., Bodroža, B., Boeschoten, L., Bognar, M., Bokhove, C., Bonfiglio, D., Bouwman, R., Brady, T. F., Braithwaite, S. R., Briceño Jiménez, G., Brick, C., Bricka, T., Briker, R., Brown, A. N., Brown, G. D. A., van Aert, R. C. M., Caldwell, K., Capitan, S., Capitán, T., Chandler, J., Charles, T., Chartier, C. R., Chawdhary, R., Cheng, K. J., Chopik, W. J., Clark, B., Colvin, V. E., Comer, C. C., Costantini, G., Coupé, T., Cummins, J., Czernatowicz-Kukuczka, A., de Leeuw, J., Dobolyi, D., Druckman, J. N., Duan, J., Dujmović, M., Dunleavy, D. J., Durkee, P. K., Emery, C., Esterling, K. M., Evans, T. R., Fedor, A., Fernández-Castilla, B., Fiala, N., Field, J. G., Fong, N., Fonseca, M. A., Freeman, A. L. J., Freese, J., Geiger, S. J., Geng, J., Getz, L. M., Geven, L. M., Gleibs, I. H., Gonzales, D. P., Gooty, J., Gourdon-Kanhukamwe, A., Greculescu, C., Griffin, S. M., Grigoryan, L., Grunow, M., Gunby, N., Hall, B., Hanel, P. H. P., Hannon, E. E., Harper, S., Held, M. J., Hickman, L., Higgins, N. C., Hippel, S., Hoeppner, S., Hong, S., Hostler, T. J., Inzlicht, M., Izydorczak, K., Jaeger, B., Jankowsky, K., Jarke-Neuert, J., Jensen, M., Jokić, B., Jolles, D., Jolly, P., Jones, A. M., Juanchich, M., Kačmár, P., Kapoor, H., Keljanovic, A., Koirala, S., Kołczyńska, M., Kouroupaki, D., Kühnen, U., Landgrave, M., Larson, M. J., Laulié, L., Lawrence, A. C. E., Le Forestier, J. M., Leahy, K. E., Lee, S., Leslie, J., Lewis, S. C., Limnios, C., Lin, H., Liu, A. C., Lloyd, J. W., Ludvig, E. A., Lynott, D., MacDonald, J., Mallik, P., Mallinson, D. J., Marinazzo, D., Martarelli, C. S., Matacotta, J., McBride, A., McHugh, C., McMillan, G., Méndez, E., Metzger, M., Michaelides, M. P., Michalak, J., Micheli, L., Miller, J. K., Milyavskaya, M., Molden, D. C., Monjaras, A. G., Moreau, D., Morrow, A., Moya, C., Mudrik, L., Mulder, L. B., Munt, K. A., Nandi, A., Nason, K., Nast, C., Nave, G., Nax, H. H., Neubauer, F., Nguyen, P. L. L., Nichols, A. L., Nilsonne, G., O’Boyle, E., Oettinghaus, J., Oh, J., Oshana, A., Ostermann, T., Ostrowski, R. P., Oyebanjo, A., Panczak, R., Patrianakos, J., Pavez, I., Pavlov, Y. G., Persson, S., Perugini, M., Peters, K., Pieters, C., Ponizovskiy, V., Porter, N. D., Prenoveau, J. M., Purić, D., Purol, M. F., Puthillam, A., Quinn, K. A., Ramljak, M., Reed, W. R., Ritchie, M., Ritzau, M., Roche, S. P., Rodela, R., Röer, J. P., Ropovik, I., Rothschild, J., Saal, J., Safadi, H., Samaha, J., Sanchez, M., Sankaran, S., Santos, D., Sargent, A. C., Sauter, M., Schmidt, K., Schnabel, L., Schroeder, A. N., Schuetz, S. W., Schuetze, B. A., Schulte-Mecklenbeck, M., Schütz, A., Sevigny, E. L., Shackleton, E., Shafranek, R. M., Shaki, S., Shakya, S., Sirota, M., Sisco, M. R., Sitnikov, M. M., Slevc, L. R., Smalarz, L., Smith, C. T., Snyder, J. S., Sommet, N., Sonmez, F., Spellman, B. A., Stanulewicz-Buckley, N., Stock, G., Street, C. N. H., Strømland, E., Sundelin, T., Syed, M., Szabelska, A., Szaszi, B., Szumowska, E., Tagat, A., Täuber, S., Tay, L., Thapa, S., Thatcher, J., Tsaklakidou, D., Tummers, L., Turkovich, E., Tutor, M. V., Urbanska, K., van ’t Veer, A. E., van Assen, M., van de Ven, N., van den Goorbergh, R., Vargo, E. J., Vaughn, L. A., Vazire, S., Vermeulen, J. M., Vo, D. T. H., Volkman, V., Wagenmakers, E. J., Wagner, D., Walasek, L., Walter, F., Warmelink, L., Wei, L., Weißflog, M. I., Weller, N., Wichman, A. L., Wilbiks, J., Williams, J. R., Wolfe, K., Wort, F., Wright, R., Wulff, J. N., Xue, X., Yan, V. X., Yang, Y., Yoon, S., Žeželj, I., Zhang, Y., Ziano, I., Zogmaister, C., Zupan, Z., Zwaan, R. A., Nosek, B. A. & Errington, T. M., 2 Apr 2026, In: Nature. 652, 8108, p. 143-150 8 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

    Open Access

  • Who Cares More About Having Moral Traits? Evidence From 67 Countries

    Paruzel-Czachura, M. & McHugh, C., 2026, (Accepted/In press) In: Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology.

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  • A replication of Triplett’s ‘social facilitation experiment’

    McHugh, C., Griffin, S. M., Kinsella, E. L., Quayle, M., Strunz, B. & Muldoon, O. T., Dec 2025, In: Scientific Reports. 15, 1, 40366.

    Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

    Open Access

  • Negative media representations of young people during COVID related national lockdown increases young people's perceived stress

    Bradshaw, D., Barry, K., Griffin, S., Jay, S. & McHugh, C., Apr 2025, In: Analyses of Social Issues and Public Policy. 25, 1, e12437.

    Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

    Open Access
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