Love, Money, and Blame: Effects of Emotional and Economic Hardship on Judgments of Criminal Behavior How do people judge criminal offenders whose early lives were marked by hardship? In three preregistered studies (total N = 893), we explored how emotional adversity (abuse and neglect) and economic ...

Love, money and blame: Effects of emotional and economic hardship on judgments of criminal behavior

⭐️From Philip Robbins & Fernando Alvear

A roadmap for evaluating moral competence in large language models - Nature This Perspective offers a roadmap for tackling the challenges of the facsimile problem, moral multidimensionality and moral pluralism in large language models.

A roadmap for evaluating moral competence in large language models

🚨Work by Julia Haas, Sophie Bridgers, Arianna Manzini, Benjamin Henke, Joshua May, Sydney Levine, Laura Weidinger, Murray Shanahan, Kristian Lum, Iason Gabriel & William Isaac

Dialogues of Confucius The first complete English translation of the Dialogues, a rediscovered companion to the Analects

📣📚From Brian Bruya and Wenwen Li:

Dialogues of Confucius

Not All Authors Are Equal: Moral Judgments of Plagiarism From AI and Human Sources Abstract. Generative AI tools are increasingly being used for creative and academic work. How do people morally evaluate plagiarism involving AI-generated content, and do they judge it differently tha...

Not all authors are equal: Moral judgments of plagiarism from AI and human sources

‼️Recent work from Calahndra Brake, Kang Lee & Ori Friedman

🥁Now announcing the winner of the 2026 Stanton Prize:

Congratulations, Melissa Kibbe @levelsof.bsky.social!

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This honor will be celebrated at the upcoming meeting of the SPP

1. New in-press paper on religion's functions, co-authored with amazing lab manager James Nesbit! Full text here, more info in thread below: columbiasamclab.weebly.com/uploads/5/9/....
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📣From Adam Stanaland, Andrea C. Vial & Andrei Cimpian:

Falling in line: Children’s gender conformity after feedback signaling gender atypicality

More hardworking than smart: Nature and origins of stereotypes about children from socioeconomically disadvantaged backgrounds

⭐️From Eddie Brummelman, Aashna Poddar, Lena-Emilia Schenker & Andrei Cimpian

Not yesterday, but maybe tomorrow: Children are more open to possibility in the future than the past Abstract. Previous research finds that children are surprisingly closed to the possibility of unlikely events. Two studies with 5-to-8-year-old children (N

Not yesterday, but maybe tomorrow: Children are more open to possibility in the future than the past

🚨Work by Umang Khan & Christina Starmans

📣Recent work from Kevin Lande & E.J. Green:

Reconsidering the Role of Imagery in Perception

Intertwined Creatures | Columbia University Press In one common view, the mind is immaterial, internal, and invisible. From this perspective, the mind is inherently individual and isolated: It is unknowable ... | CUP

🚨📚By Anthony Chemero:

Intertwined creatures: The embodied cognitive science of self and other

Origins of understanding fair resource collection

⭐️Recent work by Mia Radovanovic, Jaemin Hwang, David M. Sobel & Jessica A. Sommerville

Judgments of responsibility for inequality: A framework and review

🚨From Casey Lewry & Tania Lombrozo

Group membership biases children’s evaluation of evidence - Nature Communications People often form beliefs and reason about evidence as members of social groups. Here, the authors show that group membership biases even young children’s evaluation of evidence, leading them to adopt...

🚨From Joshua Confer, Allison Champ, Dorsa Amir, Hanna Schleihauf & Jan Engelmann:

Group membership biases children’s evaluation of evidence

The spontaneous prioritization of "unfinishedness" in perception: A visual Zeigarnik effect

📣Work from Joan Ongchoco, Kim Wong & Brian Scholl

The Consortium on Moral Decision-Making is pleased to announce its 2026 proposal cycle for interdisciplinary seed grants for morality and ethics research. Check out our call below, and visit our website (from the press release) to learn about eligibility and how to apply.
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Dialogues on Minds, Machines, and AI Dialogues on Minds, Machines, and AI invites readers into a series of thought-provoking debates among three college seniors bound for graduate school: Sue, completing her double major in philosophy an...

📣📚From Rocco Gennaro:

Dialogues on Minds, Machines, and AI

Do older 2-year-olds deploy explicit possibility concepts in action planning? Many studies find that young preschoolers do not deploy logical concepts like or or possibly in the 3- and 4-container tasks. Gautam et al. (2021) rep…

🚨Recent work from Brian Leahy, Michael Huemer, Katie Holmes & Susan Carey:

Do older 2-year-olds deploy explicit possibility concepts in action planning?

Super proud advisor moment: kudos to @jdweng.bsky.social for his first first-author publication! With @minzlicht.bsky.social, we inverted the empathy selection task to look at preferences to receive empathy. We can speculate on what people want from AI, but a motivational account suggests we ask
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Best #CogSci talk I've attended in years.

How should researchers determine if a participant's decision is correct or rational?

Dr. Rumana clarified decades of ongoing debate about theory & methods in @sjdm-tweets.bsky.social @cogscisociety.bsky.social @socphilpsych.bsky.social @philsci.bsky.social

🚨Submissions due Jan 30, 11:59pm ET🚨

Phylogenetic, ontogenetic, and logical critiques of mental state minimalism This commentary critiques recent arguments for mental state minimalism, the view that infants initially understand only behaviours and not mental states. The minimalist evolutionary claim that anim...

📣From Leon Li & Jared Vasil:

Phylogenetic, ontogenetic, and logical critiques of mental state minimalism

‼️Recent work by Julian De Freitas:

AI Companions for Dementia

Representational Momentum Transcends Motion - Dillon Plunkett, Jorge Morales, 2025 To navigate the world, our minds must represent not only how things are now (perception) but also how they are about to be (prediction). However, perception and...

📣From Dillon Plunkett & Jorge Morales:

Representational Momentum Transcends Motion

Learning psychology changes deep-rooted beliefs about the nature of psychological phenomena: Effects on intuitive dualism and beliefs about science Learning about certain disciplines can change students’ way of thinking (e.g., economy students become less cooperative, philosophy students become mo…

Learning psychology changes deep-rooted beliefs about the nature of psychological phenomena: Effects on intuitive dualism and beliefs about science

🚨Work by Francisco Cruz & André Mata

The emergence of political orientation: Authoritarian and social dominance attitudes in early childhood

📣From Michal Reifen-Tagar, Ghadir Zreik, Andrei Cimpian & Sharon Shenhav

Dynamic categorical memory distortion from “visual verbs” We see the world not only in terms of features and objects (such as the color or shape of a ball), but also in terms of a set of abstract “event types…

⭐️From Huichao Ji & Brian Scholl:

Dynamic categorical memory distortion from "visual verbs"

A Children’s Case for Reparations: U.S. Children’s and Adults’ Ideas About Collective Responsibility

‼️Recent work by Pinar Aldan & Yarrow Dunham

Flyer for the Society of Philosophy and Psychology annual meeting, held June 17-20 2026, with submissions due by January 30 2026. The flyer lists keynotes, roundtables, symposia, and preconferences, also listed here: https://socphilpsych.org/meetings.html

Submit your work by January 30 📣
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