neele engelmann
@neeleengelmann.bsky.social
cognitive scientist. postdoc at center for humans and machines, MPI for human development, Berlin. Interested in moral psychology, human-AI interaction, (experimental) philosophy and other things.
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Framing, not transparency, reduces cheating in algorithmic delegation: https://osf.io/pqmnx
New paper for #CogSci2025: People cheat more when they delegate to AI. How can we stop this? We tested:
🧠 Explaining what the AI does (transparency)
🗣️ Calling cheating what it is (framing)
Only one worked.
w/ @larakirfel.bsky.social, Anne-Marie Nussberger, Raluca Rilla & @iyadrahwan.bsky.social
🧠 Explaining what the AI does (transparency)
🗣️ Calling cheating what it is (framing)
Only one worked.
w/ @larakirfel.bsky.social, Anne-Marie Nussberger, Raluca Rilla & @iyadrahwan.bsky.social
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Really enjoyed chatting with @michaelhobbes.bsky.social for this episode! In addition to being a delight to talk to, Michael was _extremely_ committed to getting the facts right & engaged very earnestly with our feedback. A scientist's dream.
Episode 46: Sapiens
It's an ambitious goal to write the entire history of humanity in just 400 pages. It's even more ambitious to do it without reading any research.
It's an ambitious goal to write the entire history of humanity in just 400 pages. It's even more ambitious to do it without reading any research.
Sapiens
Podcast Episode · If Books Could Kill · 11/20/2025 · 1h 38m
podcasts.apple.com
November 20, 2025 at 5:11 PM
Really enjoyed chatting with @michaelhobbes.bsky.social for this episode! In addition to being a delight to talk to, Michael was _extremely_ committed to getting the facts right & engaged very earnestly with our feedback. A scientist's dream.
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The journal's homepage is now live: journals.ub.uni-koeln.de/index.php/xphi
We will soon also be found under xphi.eu.
Accepting submissions in about 2 weeks.
We will soon also be found under xphi.eu.
Accepting submissions in about 2 weeks.
Experimental Philosophy
journals.ub.uni-koeln.de
November 13, 2025 at 7:04 PM
The journal's homepage is now live: journals.ub.uni-koeln.de/index.php/xphi
We will soon also be found under xphi.eu.
Accepting submissions in about 2 weeks.
We will soon also be found under xphi.eu.
Accepting submissions in about 2 weeks.
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Want to work on ethical implications of using ML/AI in science?
Tuebingen & the ML4Science cluster are a great place to work :)
Tuebingen & the ML4Science cluster are a great place to work :)
We are looking for several postdoctoral researchers to join our Norms & Practices Lab! This is an exciting opportunity for scholars of #philosophy, #law, #culturalanthropology, and (qualitative) #socialscience: uni-tuebingen.de/en/128980#c2... 1/2
November 3, 2025 at 12:14 PM
Want to work on ethical implications of using ML/AI in science?
Tuebingen & the ML4Science cluster are a great place to work :)
Tuebingen & the ML4Science cluster are a great place to work :)
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📣 New paper! "Delegate Pricing Decisions to an Algorithm? Experimental Evidence" with @normann.bsky.social, Nina Rulié, & @ostypa.bsky.social
We study what happens when humans delegate to a collusive algorithm, and AI pricing adoption becomes a strategic choice!
arXiv: arxiv.org/abs/2510.27636
We study what happens when humans delegate to a collusive algorithm, and AI pricing adoption becomes a strategic choice!
arXiv: arxiv.org/abs/2510.27636
Delegate Pricing Decisions to an Algorithm? Experimental Evidence
We analyze the delegation of pricing by participants, representing firms, to a collusive, self-learning algorithm in a repeated Bertrand experiment. In the baseline treatment, participants set prices ...
arxiv.org
November 3, 2025 at 11:30 AM
📣 New paper! "Delegate Pricing Decisions to an Algorithm? Experimental Evidence" with @normann.bsky.social, Nina Rulié, & @ostypa.bsky.social
We study what happens when humans delegate to a collusive algorithm, and AI pricing adoption becomes a strategic choice!
arXiv: arxiv.org/abs/2510.27636
We study what happens when humans delegate to a collusive algorithm, and AI pricing adoption becomes a strategic choice!
arXiv: arxiv.org/abs/2510.27636
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Today, 18:00 CET. Please share.
Tomorrow! Thursday 30th, at 10:00 PDT / 18:00 CET
"Philosophical arguments can boost charitable giving" by Kristan Brodie and @eschwitz.bsky.social.
First talk of the @xphijournal.bsky.social series, organized by @alexwiegmann.bsky.social and Celso Vieira.
philevents.org/event/show/1...
"Philosophical arguments can boost charitable giving" by Kristan Brodie and @eschwitz.bsky.social.
First talk of the @xphijournal.bsky.social series, organized by @alexwiegmann.bsky.social and Celso Vieira.
philevents.org/event/show/1...
Philosophical arguments can boost charitable giving
We are pleased to invite you to the first talk in the Experimental Philosophy Journal Series, the new journal dedicated to X-Phi.
In this session, Eric Schwitzgebel (California) and Kirstan Brodie (Co...
philevents.org
October 30, 2025 at 7:22 AM
Today, 18:00 CET. Please share.
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gegenvorschlag :
einfach alles wurst nennen
einfach alles wurst nennen
October 9, 2025 at 9:33 AM
gegenvorschlag :
einfach alles wurst nennen
einfach alles wurst nennen
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🚨 New article 🚨
Excited to share this article, presenting a full tutorial on mouse tracking and other movement tracking techniques in psychological research, with examples from our R package mousetrap.
Paper: link.springer.com/article/10.3...
R package: pascalkieslich.github.io/mousetrap/in...
Excited to share this article, presenting a full tutorial on mouse tracking and other movement tracking techniques in psychological research, with examples from our R package mousetrap.
Paper: link.springer.com/article/10.3...
R package: pascalkieslich.github.io/mousetrap/in...
October 9, 2025 at 7:38 AM
🚨 New article 🚨
Excited to share this article, presenting a full tutorial on mouse tracking and other movement tracking techniques in psychological research, with examples from our R package mousetrap.
Paper: link.springer.com/article/10.3...
R package: pascalkieslich.github.io/mousetrap/in...
Excited to share this article, presenting a full tutorial on mouse tracking and other movement tracking techniques in psychological research, with examples from our R package mousetrap.
Paper: link.springer.com/article/10.3...
R package: pascalkieslich.github.io/mousetrap/in...
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October 7, 2025 at 5:49 AM
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📣 Germany's close to reversing its opposition to mass surveillance & private message scanning, & backing the Chat Control bill. This could end private comms-& Signal-in the EU.
Time's short and they're counting on obscurity: please let German politicians know how horrifying their reversal would be.
Time's short and they're counting on obscurity: please let German politicians know how horrifying their reversal would be.
We are alarmed by reports that Germany is on the verge of a catastrophic about-face, reversing its longstanding and principled opposition to the EU’s Chat Control proposal which, if passed, could spell the end of the right to privacy in Europe. signal.org/blog/pdfs/ge...
signal.org
October 6, 2025 at 6:46 AM
📣 Germany's close to reversing its opposition to mass surveillance & private message scanning, & backing the Chat Control bill. This could end private comms-& Signal-in the EU.
Time's short and they're counting on obscurity: please let German politicians know how horrifying their reversal would be.
Time's short and they're counting on obscurity: please let German politicians know how horrifying their reversal would be.
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Delighted that our paper on 'Delegation to AI can increase dishonest behaviour' is featured today on the cover of @nature.com
Paper: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Paper: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
October 2, 2025 at 7:51 AM
Delighted that our paper on 'Delegation to AI can increase dishonest behaviour' is featured today on the cover of @nature.com
Paper: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Paper: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Automatically disadvantaged? What benefit recipients think about the use of #AI in welfare decisions. A new study @mpib-berlin.bsky.social and @tse-fr.eu reveals discrepancies in attitudes between social benefit recipients and non-recipients.
www.mpib-berlin.mpg.de/press-releas...
www.mpib-berlin.mpg.de/press-releas...
September 29, 2025 at 12:17 PM
Automatically disadvantaged? What benefit recipients think about the use of #AI in welfare decisions. A new study @mpib-berlin.bsky.social and @tse-fr.eu reveals discrepancies in attitudes between social benefit recipients and non-recipients.
www.mpib-berlin.mpg.de/press-releas...
www.mpib-berlin.mpg.de/press-releas...
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It's hiring season at @iast.fr!
- 2y research postdoc contract
- Full autonomy, you are your own PI
- Awesome multidisciplinary environment
- All social and behavioral sciences welcome
- Seed funding for projects and workshops
- Gorgeous city in the south of France
www.iast.fr/research-fel...
- 2y research postdoc contract
- Full autonomy, you are your own PI
- Awesome multidisciplinary environment
- All social and behavioral sciences welcome
- Seed funding for projects and workshops
- Gorgeous city in the south of France
www.iast.fr/research-fel...
September 20, 2025 at 9:15 AM
It's hiring season at @iast.fr!
- 2y research postdoc contract
- Full autonomy, you are your own PI
- Awesome multidisciplinary environment
- All social and behavioral sciences welcome
- Seed funding for projects and workshops
- Gorgeous city in the south of France
www.iast.fr/research-fel...
- 2y research postdoc contract
- Full autonomy, you are your own PI
- Awesome multidisciplinary environment
- All social and behavioral sciences welcome
- Seed funding for projects and workshops
- Gorgeous city in the south of France
www.iast.fr/research-fel...
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Excited to share that my recent paper *many llms are more utilitarian than one * has been accepted to NeurIPS 2025! 🎉
#NeurIPS
Thanks to my amazing collaborators!
@razanbaltaji.bsky.social
Preprint: arxiv.org/abs/2507.00814
#NeurIPS
Thanks to my amazing collaborators!
@razanbaltaji.bsky.social
Preprint: arxiv.org/abs/2507.00814
Many LLMs Are More Utilitarian Than One
Moral judgment is integral to large language model (LLM) alignment and social reasoning. As multi-agent systems gain prominence, it becomes crucial to understand how LLMs function collectively during ...
arxiv.org
September 19, 2025 at 3:33 AM
Excited to share that my recent paper *many llms are more utilitarian than one * has been accepted to NeurIPS 2025! 🎉
#NeurIPS
Thanks to my amazing collaborators!
@razanbaltaji.bsky.social
Preprint: arxiv.org/abs/2507.00814
#NeurIPS
Thanks to my amazing collaborators!
@razanbaltaji.bsky.social
Preprint: arxiv.org/abs/2507.00814
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🧠🤖 Ever wondered about the risks of the increasing customization capabilities of AI/AI-powered chatbots & what we can do about it? Check out our recent-ish paper:
The governance & behavioral challenges of generative artificial intelligence’s hypercustomization capabilities. doi.org/10.1177/2379...
The governance & behavioral challenges of generative artificial intelligence’s hypercustomization capabilities. doi.org/10.1177/2379...
September 11, 2025 at 7:22 AM
🧠🤖 Ever wondered about the risks of the increasing customization capabilities of AI/AI-powered chatbots & what we can do about it? Check out our recent-ish paper:
The governance & behavioral challenges of generative artificial intelligence’s hypercustomization capabilities. doi.org/10.1177/2379...
The governance & behavioral challenges of generative artificial intelligence’s hypercustomization capabilities. doi.org/10.1177/2379...
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Does ‘discrimination’ inherently imply unfairness, hence making it an evaluative (rather than a descriptive) term?
Research by Willemsen et al concludes it is a “thick concept” that fundamentally blends descriptive and evaluative content:
buff.ly/DUysv3c
HT @xphilosopher.bsky.social
Research by Willemsen et al concludes it is a “thick concept” that fundamentally blends descriptive and evaluative content:
buff.ly/DUysv3c
HT @xphilosopher.bsky.social
September 9, 2025 at 8:18 AM
Does ‘discrimination’ inherently imply unfairness, hence making it an evaluative (rather than a descriptive) term?
Research by Willemsen et al concludes it is a “thick concept” that fundamentally blends descriptive and evaluative content:
buff.ly/DUysv3c
HT @xphilosopher.bsky.social
Research by Willemsen et al concludes it is a “thick concept” that fundamentally blends descriptive and evaluative content:
buff.ly/DUysv3c
HT @xphilosopher.bsky.social
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The new journal "Experimental Philosophy" is now on BlueSky.
@xphijournal.bsky.social
bsky.app/profile/xphi...
Please share!
@xphijournal.bsky.social
bsky.app/profile/xphi...
Please share!
September 6, 2025 at 2:26 PM
The new journal "Experimental Philosophy" is now on BlueSky.
@xphijournal.bsky.social
bsky.app/profile/xphi...
Please share!
@xphijournal.bsky.social
bsky.app/profile/xphi...
Please share!
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Fully funded PhD scholarships at the Max Planck School of Cognition (Deadline Dec 1st)
You can apply to work with me or one of the many amazing school faculty.
Apply here: cognition.maxplanckschools.org/en/application
You can apply to work with me or one of the many amazing school faculty.
Apply here: cognition.maxplanckschools.org/en/application
Application
Application; application procedure; FAQs; handbook
cognition.maxplanckschools.org
September 5, 2025 at 3:19 PM
Fully funded PhD scholarships at the Max Planck School of Cognition (Deadline Dec 1st)
You can apply to work with me or one of the many amazing school faculty.
Apply here: cognition.maxplanckschools.org/en/application
You can apply to work with me or one of the many amazing school faculty.
Apply here: cognition.maxplanckschools.org/en/application
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We are finalizing the program for the workshop 'Moral Epistemology and Social Progress: Experimental and Philosophical Perspectives'
Do you know someone who might be interested in submitting a proposal?
philevents.org/event/show/1...
Do you know someone who might be interested in submitting a proposal?
philevents.org/event/show/1...
Moral Epistemology and Social Progress: Experimental and Philosophical Perspectives
This focused workshop explores the intersection of empirical research on moral cognition and philosophical theories of social and moral progress. We bring together experimental philosophers and moral ...
philevents.org
September 1, 2025 at 9:03 AM
We are finalizing the program for the workshop 'Moral Epistemology and Social Progress: Experimental and Philosophical Perspectives'
Do you know someone who might be interested in submitting a proposal?
philevents.org/event/show/1...
Do you know someone who might be interested in submitting a proposal?
philevents.org/event/show/1...
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The #MaxPlanckPostdocProgram offers a guaranteed contract of at least 3 years, targeted mentoring, and career workshops. The call for applications is open now! 🚀 Take advantage of this opportunity and browse the job vacancies. www.mpg.de/en/max-planc...
September 1, 2025 at 8:46 AM
The #MaxPlanckPostdocProgram offers a guaranteed contract of at least 3 years, targeted mentoring, and career workshops. The call for applications is open now! 🚀 Take advantage of this opportunity and browse the job vacancies. www.mpg.de/en/max-planc...
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There are tons of graphic novels, academic papers, film and TV scripts, & prose novels/nonfiction on the LibGen list Anthropic used.
As settlement approaches, make it easy for the class action lawyers to contact you! Here’s how
Part 1: is your work in Libgen?
www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...
As settlement approaches, make it easy for the class action lawyers to contact you! Here’s how
Part 1: is your work in Libgen?
www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...
Search LibGen, the Pirated-Books Database That Meta Used to Train AI
Millions of books and scientific papers are captured in the collection’s current iteration.
www.theatlantic.com
August 27, 2025 at 6:47 PM
There are tons of graphic novels, academic papers, film and TV scripts, & prose novels/nonfiction on the LibGen list Anthropic used.
As settlement approaches, make it easy for the class action lawyers to contact you! Here’s how
Part 1: is your work in Libgen?
www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...
As settlement approaches, make it easy for the class action lawyers to contact you! Here’s how
Part 1: is your work in Libgen?
www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...
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Would you like to contribute to cross-cultural research in bioethics? We have received expressions of interest from over 20 countries, but many world regions remain under-represented.
⬇️ Sign up to take part here ⬇️
www.mscilab.com/globalbioxphi/
⬇️ Sign up to take part here ⬇️
www.mscilab.com/globalbioxphi/
global-bioXphi | moral science lab
Experimental philosophy research group at the University of Granada, Spain.
www.mscilab.com
August 28, 2025 at 5:32 AM
Would you like to contribute to cross-cultural research in bioethics? We have received expressions of interest from over 20 countries, but many world regions remain under-represented.
⬇️ Sign up to take part here ⬇️
www.mscilab.com/globalbioxphi/
⬇️ Sign up to take part here ⬇️
www.mscilab.com/globalbioxphi/
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🚨Publication Alert🚨
“Are the concepts of truth and lying shared across cultures?”
5 years in the making
~ 5000 participants
10 countries
6 languages
Forthcoming in American Psychologist
With @louisareins.bsky.social, . Mizumoto, A. Erut, Q. Li, and S. Orr.
Short thread and preprint below
“Are the concepts of truth and lying shared across cultures?”
5 years in the making
~ 5000 participants
10 countries
6 languages
Forthcoming in American Psychologist
With @louisareins.bsky.social, . Mizumoto, A. Erut, Q. Li, and S. Orr.
Short thread and preprint below
August 27, 2025 at 4:41 PM
🚨Publication Alert🚨
“Are the concepts of truth and lying shared across cultures?”
5 years in the making
~ 5000 participants
10 countries
6 languages
Forthcoming in American Psychologist
With @louisareins.bsky.social, . Mizumoto, A. Erut, Q. Li, and S. Orr.
Short thread and preprint below
“Are the concepts of truth and lying shared across cultures?”
5 years in the making
~ 5000 participants
10 countries
6 languages
Forthcoming in American Psychologist
With @louisareins.bsky.social, . Mizumoto, A. Erut, Q. Li, and S. Orr.
Short thread and preprint below
Great to see this out! I hope platforms like @joinprolific.bsky.social take note, it currently looks like online behavioral research is becoming increasingly infeasible
🚨New paper alert!
"Recognising, Anticipating & Mitigating LLM Pollution of Online Behavioural Research"
Online experiments are being polluted by LLMs. We map the threat and fixes🧵
w/ Raluca Rilla, @hiromu1996.bsky.social, @iyadrahwan.bsky.social &
Anne-Marie Nussberger
arxiv.org/abs/2508.01390
"Recognising, Anticipating & Mitigating LLM Pollution of Online Behavioural Research"
Online experiments are being polluted by LLMs. We map the threat and fixes🧵
w/ Raluca Rilla, @hiromu1996.bsky.social, @iyadrahwan.bsky.social &
Anne-Marie Nussberger
arxiv.org/abs/2508.01390
Recognising, Anticipating, and Mitigating LLM Pollution of Online Behavioural Research
Online behavioural research faces an emerging threat as participants increasingly turn to large language models (LLMs) for advice, translation, or task delegation: LLM Pollution. We identify three int...
arxiv.org
August 5, 2025 at 9:41 AM
Great to see this out! I hope platforms like @joinprolific.bsky.social take note, it currently looks like online behavioral research is becoming increasingly infeasible
Looking forward to (virtually) presenting this work later today at #CogSci2025!
August 1, 2025 at 7:01 AM
Looking forward to (virtually) presenting this work later today at #CogSci2025!
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Mengchen Dong @iyadrahwan.bsky.social and I report data from 3,000+ people (incl. welfare claimants) showing how much accuracy they're willing to sacrifice to get faster AI decisions for social benefits. it's very hard for non-claimants to understand claimants. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Heterogeneous preferences and asymmetric insights for AI use among welfare claimants and non-claimants - Nature Communications
Governments use AI to speed up welfare decisions, raising concerns about fairness and accuracy. Here, the authors find that welfare claimants are more averse to AI and their preferences less understoo...
www.nature.com
July 30, 2025 at 10:36 AM
Mengchen Dong @iyadrahwan.bsky.social and I report data from 3,000+ people (incl. welfare claimants) showing how much accuracy they're willing to sacrifice to get faster AI decisions for social benefits. it's very hard for non-claimants to understand claimants. www.nature.com/articles/s41...