Jordan Grafman
Biographic Data
| ID | 1936661 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jordan Grafman |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jordan |
| FAMILY NAME | Grafman |
| SIGNATURE | GRAFMAN J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Northwestern University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8645-4457 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 16 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2001 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Dissociated empathy and utilitarian moral judgment in borderline personality disorder
Borderline personality disorder (BPD) is characterized by affective instability, disrupted empathy, and self-processing. In this study, we aimed to investigate moral decision-making and its association with empathy in BPD compared to Control group (CG). 112 participants, 45 BPD, and 67 CG were recruited. They filled out a demographic questionnaire and completed the moral scenarios and Interpersonal Reactivity Index. We mainly used regression-base…
The white matter of Aha! moments
Insights, or "Aha!" moments, are a crucial aspect of idea generation in creative cognition. While functional neuroimaging studies have identified brain regions involved in these insights, their white matter substrate remains unexplored. This study employed diffusion tensor imaging (DTI) to investigate how white matter microstructure—measured by fractional anisotropy (FA) and mean diffusivity (MD)—relates to individuals’ tendency to solve Compound…
Sleep and dream disturbances associated with dissociative experiences
Some dissociative experiences may be related, in part, to REM intrusion into waking consciousness. If so, some aspects of dream content may be associated with daytime dissociative experiences. We tested the hypothesis that some types of dream content would predict daytime dissociative symptomology. As part of a longitudinal study of the impact of dreams on everyday behavior we administered a battery of survey instruments to 219 volunteers. Assess…
Finding consonance
Disclosure statementNo potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).Additional informationFundingThis work was supported by John Templeton Foundation [grant number 62034]
Finding consonance
We selectively review existing neuroscience research on theistic relational cognition—construed as ritual practices directed toward supernatural agents. We present a tentative framework rooted in cultural and evolutionary models of religion for understanding the disparate findings of emerging neuroscience research on theistic cognition. We propose (with E. B. Davis et al. [2018]) that theistic cognition involves both experiential and group-sancti…
The burden of traumatic brain injury on caregivers
Overall, our findings highlight the importance of taking caregivers' psychosocial needs into account. Long-term caregivers of TBI patients with cognitive impairment should be viewed as vulnerable individuals who could benefit from psychosocial intervention programs, to improve their well-being and enabling them to enrich their care of the TBI patient
Insight problem solving ability predicts reduced susceptibility to fake news, bullshit, and overclaiming
The information humans are exposed to has grown exponentially. This has placed increased demands upon our information selection strategies resulting in reduced fact-checking and critical-thinking time. Prior research shows that problem solving (traditionally measured using the Cognitive Reflection Test-CRT) negatively correlates with believing in false information. We argue that this result is specifically related to insight problem solving. Solu…
Differentiating personified, supernatural, and abstract views of God across three cognitive domains
A transdiagnostic network for psychiatric illness derived from atrophy and lesions
Brain stimulation and brain lesions converge on common causal circuits in neuropsychiatric disease
Association between alexithymia and impaired reward valuation in patients with fronto-insular damage
Humans compute the anticipated reward value of stimuli in their environment in order to behave in an adaptive, goal-directed manner. This reward valuation ability is vital, and its disruption in a range of clinical populations has profound personal and social consequences. However, research has often failed to consider the reward-related functions of a central component of human emotion: conscious emotional experience. Alexithymia-a condition cha…
Prefrontal brain lesions reveal magical ideation arises from enhanced religious experiences
Magical ideation refers to beliefs about causality that lack empirical bases. Few studies have investigated the neural correlates of magical thinking and religious beliefs. Here, we investigate the association between magical ideation and religious experience in a sample of Vietnam veterans who sustained penetrating traumatic brain injury (pTBI) and matched healthy controls (HCs). Scores on the Magical Ideation Scale were positively correlated wi…
The effect of claustrum lesions on human consciousness and recovery of function
Human fronto–mesolimbic networks guide decisions about charitable donation
Humans often sacrifice material benefits to endorse or to oppose societal causes based on moral beliefs. Charitable donation behavior, which has been the target of recent experimental economics studies, is an outstanding contemporary manifestation of this ability. Yet the neural bases of this unique aspect of human altruism, which extends beyond interpersonal interactions, remain obscure. In this article, we use functional magnetic resonance imag…
The neural basis of human moral cognition
The Latent Structure of Memory
Confirmatory factor analysis was used to investigate the nature of memory distinctions underlying the performance of two samples: a sample of male Vietnam War veterans who had not received head injuries, and a second sample of male Vietnam War veterans who had suffered penetrating head injuries resulting in relatively small lesions (<10 cc volume loss). For these two groups, comparisons were made of the fit of seven theory-based memory models, co…
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The Latent Structure of Memory
Confirmatory factor analysis was used to investigate the nature of memory distinctions underlying the performance of two samples: a sample of male Vietnam War veterans who had not received head injuries, and a second sample of male Vietnam War veterans who had suffered penetrating head injuries resulting in relatively small lesions (<10 cc volume loss). For these two groups, comparisons were made of the fit of seven theory-based memory models, co…
The neural basis of human moral cognition
Human fronto–mesolimbic networks guide decisions about charitable donation
Humans often sacrifice material benefits to endorse or to oppose societal causes based on moral beliefs. Charitable donation behavior, which has been the target of recent experimental economics studies, is an outstanding contemporary manifestation of this ability. Yet the neural bases of this unique aspect of human altruism, which extends beyond interpersonal interactions, remain obscure. In this article, we use functional magnetic resonance imag…
The effect of claustrum lesions on human consciousness and recovery of function
Prefrontal brain lesions reveal magical ideation arises from enhanced religious experiences
Magical ideation refers to beliefs about causality that lack empirical bases. Few studies have investigated the neural correlates of magical thinking and religious beliefs. Here, we investigate the association between magical ideation and religious experience in a sample of Vietnam veterans who sustained penetrating traumatic brain injury (pTBI) and matched healthy controls (HCs). Scores on the Magical Ideation Scale were positively correlated wi…
Association between alexithymia and impaired reward valuation in patients with fronto-insular damage
Humans compute the anticipated reward value of stimuli in their environment in order to behave in an adaptive, goal-directed manner. This reward valuation ability is vital, and its disruption in a range of clinical populations has profound personal and social consequences. However, research has often failed to consider the reward-related functions of a central component of human emotion: conscious emotional experience. Alexithymia-a condition cha…
Brain stimulation and brain lesions converge on common causal circuits in neuropsychiatric disease
Insight problem solving ability predicts reduced susceptibility to fake news, bullshit, and overclaiming
The information humans are exposed to has grown exponentially. This has placed increased demands upon our information selection strategies resulting in reduced fact-checking and critical-thinking time. Prior research shows that problem solving (traditionally measured using the Cognitive Reflection Test-CRT) negatively correlates with believing in false information. We argue that this result is specifically related to insight problem solving. Solu…
Differentiating personified, supernatural, and abstract views of God across three cognitive domains
A transdiagnostic network for psychiatric illness derived from atrophy and lesions
Sleep and dream disturbances associated with dissociative experiences
Some dissociative experiences may be related, in part, to REM intrusion into waking consciousness. If so, some aspects of dream content may be associated with daytime dissociative experiences. We tested the hypothesis that some types of dream content would predict daytime dissociative symptomology. As part of a longitudinal study of the impact of dreams on everyday behavior we administered a battery of survey instruments to 219 volunteers. Assess…
Finding consonance
Disclosure statementNo potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).Additional informationFundingThis work was supported by John Templeton Foundation [grant number 62034]
Finding consonance
We selectively review existing neuroscience research on theistic relational cognition—construed as ritual practices directed toward supernatural agents. We present a tentative framework rooted in cultural and evolutionary models of religion for understanding the disparate findings of emerging neuroscience research on theistic cognition. We propose (with E. B. Davis et al. [2018]) that theistic cognition involves both experiential and group-sancti…
The burden of traumatic brain injury on caregivers
Overall, our findings highlight the importance of taking caregivers' psychosocial needs into account. Long-term caregivers of TBI patients with cognitive impairment should be viewed as vulnerable individuals who could benefit from psychosocial intervention programs, to improve their well-being and enabling them to enrich their care of the TBI patient
Dissociated empathy and utilitarian moral judgment in borderline personality disorder
Borderline personality disorder (BPD) is characterized by affective instability, disrupted empathy, and self-processing. In this study, we aimed to investigate moral decision-making and its association with empathy in BPD compared to Control group (CG). 112 participants, 45 BPD, and 67 CG were recruited. They filled out a demographic questionnaire and completed the moral scenarios and Interpersonal Reactivity Index. We mainly used regression-base…
The white matter of Aha! moments
Insights, or "Aha!" moments, are a crucial aspect of idea generation in creative cognition. While functional neuroimaging studies have identified brain regions involved in these insights, their white matter substrate remains unexplored. This study employed diffusion tensor imaging (DTI) to investigate how white matter microstructure—measured by fractional anisotropy (FA) and mean diffusivity (MD)—relates to individuals’ tendency to solve Compound…
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