🔥 7 Flash Talks on Disgust & Pathogen Avoidance:
#disgust #pathogenavoidance #behavioralimmune #moralpsych #learning #meat
Enjoyed attending the European Experimental Philosophy conference this week at University of East Anglia!
Heard many engaging talks, presented my work on how AI is shaping what counts as (an) achievement, beauty and art, and concluded my attendance with a fun doodle.
#xphi #art #moralpsych
Dr. Eliana Hadjiandreou at the 2025 BioXPhi Summit
Studies 1a & 1b Moral expansiveness Self-Other category means
Study 2 (N=298) Condition (control, similarity, dissimilarity) × MES perspective (self, close other, average other) × Entity type (proximal, distant) interaction
Study 3 (N-421) Condition (control, liking, disliking) × MES perspective (self, close other, average other) x Entity type (proximal, distant) interaction
What can explain such differences in moral expansiveness?
@elianahadtime.bsky.social et al. replicated self-other gaps and nudged judgments about distant others with a dis/similarity writing task.
Follow Dr. Hadjiandreou for the paper alert: scholar.google.com/citations?vi...
#xPhi #moralPsych
Request for Moral Psych folks!!
If you’re planning to attend the Morality Preconf @ this year’s SPSP conference & have NOT signed up yet, please DM or email me!
The precon is already sold out (!!), and we are trying to gauge interest so that we can push for more space! Thank you!
#MoralPsych
Dr. Bigman and some of the stimuli used in the experiments.
Yochanan Bigman at al. reported experiments about moral advice:
- People thought #advice seeking would reduce blame.
- They were wrong.
Follow Dr. Bigman on gScholar to be alerted when these data are online: scholar.google.com/citations?hl...
#xPhi #ethics #moralPsych #socialPsychr #communication
Dr. Yudkin and a breakdown of moral dilemma decisions
Study 2: Preregistered Replication with US-Representative Sample (N = 500). The correlations between r/AITA and the representative samples were high: about 0.7 (of 1.0)
Common variables (like moral foundations and virtues) didn't predict whether a subreddit post contained a dilemma. What did? The "interpersonal closeness of the interactants" in the post.
Who’s the a$$hole?
It's not @dyudkin.bsky.social: his team harnessed #Reddit's r/AITA to categorize, rank, and analyze response options to "everyday moral dilemmas".
Follow Dr. Yudkin and the paper: scholar.google.com/citations?vi...
#corpusLinguistics #dataViz #moralPsych #webScraping #xPhi
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Moral comparisons of utilitarian tradeoffs depended on the rating protocol? 🤔
The (mean) relative difference in morality in one protocol was sometimes undetected in the other protocol!
A few differences reversed between protocols!
doi.org/10.1016/j.co...
#SurveyMethods #xPhi #ethics #moralPsych
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Social #class predicted variance in #deontological and #utilitarian patterns of responses to moral dilemmas among thousands of German speakers: doi.org/10.3389/fsoc...
Class differences in utilitarian thinking were partially mediated by reflection and empathy.
#ethics #philosophy #xPhi #MoralPsych
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…a “virtual child pornography vignette (… low in harm, high in disgust) was criminalized more readily than the financial harm vignette (high in harm, low in disgust)”
“and disgust sensitivity was associated with the decision to criminalize”.
doi.org/10.1057/s415...
#law #xPhi #xJur #moralPsych
If you're free and want to attend a public lecture I'm giving in Oxford on moral decision making in #VR please join :) 👇 30th November 10.30am Oxford Martin School #moralpsych bookwhen.com/uehiro#focus...