Studies find that some people espouse moral relativism, others espouse moral objectivism. What explains this mix? New Cognition paper with evidence for a surprising answer: People espouse relativism to signal tolerance, objectivism to signal intolerance philpapers.org/rec/MOSSIS-2

(1/5) Very excited to announce the publication of Bayesian Models of Cognition: Reverse Engineering the Mind. More than a decade in the making, it's a big (600+ pages) beautiful book covering both the basics and recent work: mitpress.mit.edu/9780262049412/…

📢New paper! Do we shift our views on bioethical issues after reflecting on consequences? TLDR: Yes, but not as we predicted. Reflecting on consequences does NOT make views more progressive or unified. w/ Bystranowski, Moral Science Lab & Jon Rueda Etxebarria 🔓dx.doi.org/10.1111/cogs.7…

Can consequentialist reflection bring about (a) progress, or, at the least, (b) consensus? In a new paper in CogSci Society, we find a clear lack of evidence for either prediction when people reason briefly about various bioethical controversies.

There are many moral setbacks in the world: wars, violence, harmful policies. Yet, many of us still try to create change. Why? Now out in Cognitive Science, with Tania Lombrozo and Sana Asifriyaz! doi.org/10.1111/cogs.7…

fascinating book presentation (and cartooning workshop!) by Amy Kurzweil at Center for Humans & Machines today. Can't wait to dive into "artificial" now 🤖💕🎶

everyone leaving this website just as the actual bob dylan starts earnestly and semi-prolifically posting is an incredible way for Twitter to die

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Delighted to announce the 5th European Experimental Philosophy Conference will be held July 10-12, 2025, in Norwich. Europe's friendliest interdisciplinary conference in the UK's finest medieval city. CFP: x-phi.uea.ac.uk/EuroX-Phi2025-…

Confidence intervals are confusing intervals. The reason is because they tell us something about what happens across many confidence intervals, not in any single confidence interval. In the long run, 95% of 95% CI contain a population parameter. 1/n

New post The 100% CI by me: I read two books on the alleged teen mental health crisis and social media's role in it, by Jonathan Haidt and by @drlucyfoulkes. Then, I tried to make up my own mind, with limited success.

Introducing PowerLMM.js! A new tool for power analysis of longitudinal linear mixed-effects models (LMMs) – with support for missing data, plus non-inferiority and equivalence tests. powerlmmjs.rpsychologist.com Details below 🧵👇

It costs around $50 million every year to ensure Signal is robust and available all over the world for anyone whenever they need it. And as a nonprofit, that money comes from all of you; the people who believe that we all deserve a place to speak freely. Signal.org/donate

Thank you Narodowe Centrum Nauki for funding! Here is the new website of the project: talkingtobots.net

🌎 Fear of AI in 20 countries 🌏 Just published in American Psychologist: Despite large variations of fear across countries and domains, we validated a unified psychological model. Paper: doi.org/10.1037/amp000…… American Psychological Association showcase: tinyurl.com/4euzan7b #ai #aiethics

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Jennifer Mather Saul’s "Dogwhistles and Figleaves" explores how blatant falsehoods have infiltrated mainstream politics: shifting norms, empowering conspiracy theories, and reshaping truth in discourse. Learn more: oxford.ly/41f0vMM

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🚨Preprint Alert 🚨 Excited to share that my first first-author paper from my PhD has been accepted in Philosophical Psychology(Philosophical Psychology) (co-authored by my co-supervisor Alex Wiegmann(Alex Wiegmann )). Short thread 🧵with link to preprint