Juan Manuel Contreras, Ph.D.

Writing

Research

  1. Contreras, J. M., & Carpenter, M. (in press). Adjudication in the age of machina legalis: A governance architecture for trustworthy and responsible AI in courts. Cambridge Forum on AI: Law and Governance.
  2. Contreras, J. M. (2025). Automated evaluation of gender bias across 13 large multimodal models. arXiv. https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.07050
  3. Contreras, J. M. (2025). Automated safety evaluations across 20 large language models: The Aymara LLM Risk and Responsibility Matrix. arXiv. https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.14719
  4. Morehouse, K. N., Contreras, J. M., Pan, W., & Banaji, M. R. (2024, June). Bias transmission in large language models: Evidence from gender-occupation bias in GPT-4. Paper presented at the Next Generation of AI Safety Workshop, ICML, Vienna, Austria.
  5. Contreras, J. M. (2023). Data science needs you, social scientist. In Non-academic careers for quantitative social scientists: A practical guide to maximizing your skills and opportunities (pp. 9–13). Springer International Publishing.
  6. Shephard, D., Contreras, J. M., Meuris, J., Kaat, A., Bailey, S., Custers, A., & Spencer, N. (2017). Beyond financial literacy: The psychological dimensions of financial capability (Technical Report). Think Forward Initiative.
  7. Leshinskaya, A., Contreras, J. M., Caramazza, A., & Mitchell, J. P. (2017). Neural representations of belief concepts: A representational similarity approach to social semantics. Cerebral Cortex, 27(1), 344–357.
  8. Tamir, D. I., Thornton, M. A., Contreras, J. M., & Mitchell, J. P. (2016). Neural evidence that three dimensions organize mental state representation: Rationality, social impact, and valence. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 113(1), 194–199.
  9. Contreras, J. M., Banaji, M. R., & Mitchell, J. P. (2013). Multivoxel patterns in fusiform face area differentiate faces by sex and race. PLOS ONE, 8(7), e69684.
  10. Contreras, J. M., Schirmer, J., Banaji, M. R., & Mitchell, J. P. (2013). Common brain regions with distinct patterns of neural responses during mentalizing about groups and individuals. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 25(9), 1406–1417.
  11. Durante, F., Fiske, S. T., Kervyn, N., Cuddy, A. J., Akande, A., Adetoun, B. E., Adewuyi, M. F., Tserere, M. M., Al Ramiah, A., Andersen, R., Amin, A., Berthold, A., Björklund, F., Bosch, S., Contreras, J. M., ... & Cuddy, A. J. (2013). Nations' income inequality predicts ambivalence in stereotype content: How societies mind the gap. British Journal of Social Psychology, 52(4), 726–746.
  12. Contreras, J. M., Banaji, M. R., & Mitchell, J. P. (2012). Dissociable neural correlates of stereotypes and other forms of semantic knowledge. Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, 7(7), 764–770.

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