Jeremy Ginges is an Assistant Professor of Psychology and director of the Laboratory of Social and Political Psychology at the New School for Social Research in New York City. He received his PhD in Psychology from Tel Aviv University in 2004. Prior to his current position he was on faculty in the Research Center for Group Dynamics at the University of Michigan (2003-2006) and held a field research fellowship at the Solomon Asch Center for Study of Ethnopolitical Conflict at the University of Pennsylvania (2001-2002).
His work explores is the role moral reasoning plays in binding people together to form meaningful social groups and the way moral reasoning, particularly over sacred values, influences the trajectory of cultural, political and violent conflicts.

Selected publications include:

Ginges, J. & Atran, S. (2009). What motivates participation in violent political action: selective incentives or parochial altruism? Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, 1167, 115-123.
Ginges, J. & Atran, S. (2009). Non-instrumental reasoning over sacred values: An Indonesian field experiment. In D.M. Bartels, C.W. Bauman, L.J. Skitka, & D.L. Medin (Eds,), Psychology of Learning and Motivation, Vol. 50: Moral Judgment and Decision Making. San Diego: Academic Press.
Ginges, J., Hansen, I.G. & Norenzayan, A. (2009). Religion and popular support for suicide attacks. Psychological Science, 20, 224-230.
Atran, S. & Ginges, J. (January 25, 2009). How words could end a war. The New York Times.
Ginges, J. & Atran, S. (2008). Humiliation and the inertia effect: Implications for understanding violence and compromise in intractable intergroup conflicts. Journal of Cognition and Culture, 8, 281-294.
Pintak, L. Ginges, J. & Felton, N. (May 25, 2008). Misreading the Arab Media. The New York Times.
Ginges, J., Atran, A., Medin, D., & Shikaki, K. (2007). Sacred bounds on rational resolution of violent political conflict. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 104, 7357-7360.
Ginges, J. (2005). Youth bulges, civic knowledge and political upheaval. Psychological Science, 16, 659-661.
Malhotra, D. K. and Ginges, J., (2005). “Beyond Reactive Devaluation: Implementation Concerns and Fixed-pie Perceptions Involving the Geneva Accords”. IACM 18th Annual Conference. http://ssrn.com/abstract=735065.
Ginges, J., & Malhotra, D.K. (2003). “Dislike or Distrust? The dynamics of non-cooperation among Jewish and Arab Israelis”. Harvard NOM Working Paper No. 03-26; 16th Annual IACM Conference Melbourne, Australia
Ginges, J., & Cairns, D. (2000). Social representations of Multiculturalism: a faceted analysis. Journal of Applied Social Psychology, 30(7), 1345-1370.
Ginges, J. (1997). Deterring the terrorist: a psychological evaluation of different strategies for deterring terrorism. Terrorism and Political Violence, 9, 170-185.