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The minds that matter: How robots’ mental capacities shape children’s evaluations and trust

📣Recent work by Anastasiia D. Grigoreva Crean & Arber Tasimi
The Minds That Matter: How Robots’ Mental Capacities Shape Children’s Evaluations and Trust
Abstract. Robots express a great deal of diverse human-like capacities, ranging from communicating in natural languages to displaying emotions to responding to physical touch. Here we examined the rol...
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December 8, 2025 at 3:50 AM
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Children’s judgments of possibility align with their judgments of actuality

‼️From Mo Pabla, Andrew Shtulman & Ori Friedman
Children's Judgments of Possibility Align With Their Judgments of Actuality
Children often say that possible events are impossible, and only gradually come to see these events as possible. For instance, they often deny that people could do unusual things, like own a pet pea.....
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December 8, 2025 at 3:48 AM
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Excited to announce a new open-access EMP Lab paper on empathic AI: an interdisciplinary collaboration between psychology, philosophy, & engineering on motivated empathy expression and reception with social robots.
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Empathy for and From Embodied Robots: An Interdisciplinary Review - C. Daryl Cameron, Alan R. Wagner, Martina Orlandi, Eliana Hadjiandreou, India G. Oates, Stephen Anderson, 2025
Several years ago, the world was stunned when the cute robot HitchBOT was destroyed. Does empathy for robots—sharing experiences and feeling compassion—make sen...
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December 5, 2025 at 9:51 PM
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📣From Eugen Fischer, Keith Allen & Paul E. Engelhardt:

Scientific or naïve? Perceptions of direct and indirect realism, and why they matter
Scientific or naïve? Perceptions of direct and indirect realism, and why they matter
Philosophical debates about the nature of perception are standardly informed by an empirical assumption about folk beliefs: They assume there is such a thing as “the” common-sense conception of visio...
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December 3, 2025 at 12:33 PM
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People can find their true selves outside moral pursuits

⭐️Recent work by Jordan Wylie, Matthew Lindauer & Ana Gantman
People can find their true selves outside moral pursuits
Pursuing a life of moral excellence is often seen as allowing a person not only to live by good and just principles but also to live an authentic life…
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December 3, 2025 at 12:28 PM
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Our 52nd Annual Meeting will be held from June 18–20, 2026 at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, MD, with a pre-conference on Mental Control and Agency held at JHU on June 17
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We are currently inviting submissions of papers (talks and posters)!
November 22, 2025 at 11:04 PM
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Scientific or naïve? Perceptions of direct and indirect realism, and why they matter

⭐️ Work by Eugen Fischer, Keith Allen & Paul E. Engelhardt
Scientific or naïve? Perceptions of direct and indirect realism, and why they matter
Philosophical debates about the nature of perception are standardly informed by an empirical assumption about folk beliefs: They assume there is such a thing as “the” common-sense conception of visio....
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November 20, 2025 at 4:29 AM
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Children and adults think truth-seeking should prevail over partisanship

📣 From Joshua Rottman, Zoe Favilla, Nithyasri Ramaswamy, Caitlin Geller, Raluca Rilla, Nina Kegelman, Skylynn Coble, Jonathan D. Lane, S. Emlen Metz, Paul L. Harris & Walter Sinnott-Armstrong
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November 20, 2025 at 4:25 AM
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Will human-animal chimeras cause moral confusion? Exploring public attitudes

🚨 Work by Katrien Devolder, Joshua Rottman, Qinyu Xiao, Guy Kahane, Lucius Caviola, Lauren Yip & Nadira S. Faber
Will Human-Animal Chimeras Cause Moral Confusion? Exploring Public Attitudes - Journal of Bioethical Inquiry
Recent medical research involving human-monkey chimeras, human brain organoids in rats, and the transplantation of a gene-edited pig heart and gene-edited pig kidneys in living human beings have inten...
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November 18, 2025 at 5:04 AM
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Hiding discrimination in plain sight: The development of reasoning about disparate impact policies

‼️ From Aarthi Popat, Jamie Amemiya, Gail D. Heyman & Caren M. Walker
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November 18, 2025 at 5:01 AM
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📣From Kerem Oktar & Tania Lombrozo:

How Beliefs Persist Amid Controversy: The Paths to Persistence Model
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November 10, 2025 at 4:05 AM
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Challenges to Narrating a Multitudinous Self: Towards a Better Ethics of Code-switching

⭐️Work from Leda Berio & Daniel Kelly
Challenges to Narrating a Multitudinous Self: Towards a Better Ethics of Code-switching - Topoi
We motivate and lay out the broad contours of a research program, namely that of developing a systematic ethics of code-switching. Such an ethics will articulate the values and norms that should gover...
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November 10, 2025 at 4:03 AM
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Cross-national insights into moral expansiveness: Selective valuation of nature versus humans

📣Recent work by Kyle F. Law, Stylianos Syropoulos, Charlie R. Crimston, Ezra Markowitz, Taciano L. Milfont, Scott Claessens, Thanos Kyritsis, Quentin Atkinson, Brock Bastian & Joshua Rottman
Cross-national insights into moral expansiveness: Selective valuation of nature versus humans
Previous evidence from limited U.S. samples has shown that people differ in how they morally prioritize the natural world versus human outgroups. Here…
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November 5, 2025 at 2:09 PM
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🚨From Jay Naborn & Jonathan E. Bogard:

The Pick-the-Winner-Picker Heuristic: Preference for Categorically Correct Forecasts
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November 5, 2025 at 1:58 PM
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How to show that a cruel prank is worse than a war crime: Shifting scales and missing benchmarks in the study of moral judgment

🚨 Work by Vladimir Chituc, M.J. Crockett & Brian Scholl
How to show that a cruel prank is worse than a war crime: Shifting scales and missing benchmarks in the study of moral judgment
Moral judgment is central to both everyday life and cognitive science, but how can it be studied with quantitative precision? By far the most direct a…
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October 31, 2025 at 3:29 AM
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Radical Embodied Relation at any Scale, from Remembering to Navigating

⭐️ From Andrea Hiott
Radical Embodied Relation at any Scale, from Remembering to Navigating - Topoi
Recent developments in the study of the hippocampal formation call old ideas of representation into question and are forcing a change in the way we understand the study of memory and navigation, openi...
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October 31, 2025 at 3:27 AM
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People use norms, values, codification, and enforceability to determine if a rule was broken

📣 Recent work from Jordan Wylie, Dries Bostyn, & Ana Gantman
People Use Norms, Values, Codification, and Enforceability to Determine if a Rule Was Broken
Abstract. Rules are essential for the successful coordination of large-scale societies, with official, codified rules (e.g., laws) proscribing behaviors for everyone in their jurisdiction. These rules...
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October 24, 2025 at 1:24 PM
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Historical and experimental evidence that inherent properties are overweighted in early scientific explanation

🌟From Zachary Horne, Mert Kobaş & Andrei Cimpian
Historical and experimental evidence that inherent properties are overweighted in early scientific explanation | PNAS
Scientific explanation is one of the most sophisticated forms of human reasoning. Nevertheless, here we hypothesize that scientific explanation is ...
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October 10, 2025 at 1:44 PM
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‼️ Recent work by Setayesh Radkani, Joshua Tenenbaum & Rebecca Saxe:

What people learn from punishment: A cognitive model
What people learn from punishment: A cognitive model | PNAS
Authorities, from parents of toddlers to leaders of formal institutions, use punishment to communicate disapproval and enforce social norms. Ideall...
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October 8, 2025 at 5:19 AM
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What predicts girls’ and boys’ political ambition? Evidence from the U.S. and China

📣Work from Rachel A. Leshin, Reut Shachnai, Yuchen Tian, Minghui Wang & Andrei Cimpian
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October 8, 2025 at 5:16 AM
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The moral pull of “women and children”

🚨Work by Anastasiia D. Grigoreva Crean, Stella F. Lourenco & Arber Tasimi
The moral pull of “women and children”
Victimized “women and children” are frequently featured in the media, yet the consequences of this phrase are far from clear. Across six experiments (…
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October 6, 2025 at 12:10 AM
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Somebody Should Do Something: How Anyone Can Help Create Social Change

📚From Michael Brownstein, Alex Madva & Daniel Kelly
Somebody Should Do Something
Changing the world is difficult. One reason is that the most important problems, like climate change, racism, and poverty, are structural. They emerge from o...
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October 6, 2025 at 12:07 AM
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🚨Recent work from Jane Acierno, Clare Kennedy, Fiery Cushman & Jonathan Phillips:

Inverse option generation: Inferences about others' values based on what comes to mind
Inverse option generation: Inferences about others' values based on what comes to mind
Prior research shows that when people try to think of things, such as solutions to a problem, the options that come to mind most often are those that …
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October 2, 2025 at 2:25 PM
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Contrasting guilty minds: Exposure to contrast concepts narrows conceptions of acting knowingly and recklessly

🚨From Christian Mott and Larisa Heiphetz Solomon
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October 2, 2025 at 2:20 PM
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📣Recent work by Emily G. Liquin, Marjorie Rhodes & Todd M. Gureckis:

Seeking new information with old questions: Children and adults reuse and recombine concepts from prior questions
Seeking New Information With Old Questions: Children and Adults Reuse and Recombine Concepts From Prior Questions
Abstract. Question asking is a key tool for learning about the world, especially in childhood. However, formulating good questions is challenging. In any given situation, many questions are possible b...
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October 1, 2025 at 3:15 PM