Working on this with @hohwy.bsky.social and Linda Barclay was such a pleasure, full of fantastic conversations and great aha moments. I also praise and thank @monash-m3cs.bsky.social for the warm and stimulating environment!

The study was preregistered, and our data and materials (including the new vignettes) are openly available at osf.io/c639k/

In the paper we draw a few tips for avoiding to violate dignity. For example, when our job demands that we give our colleague some negative feedback, the dignified way of doing it is the way that minimises risk that they would feel humiliated, ashamed, and embarrassed.

We also show that offences that targeted physical appearance and potential vulnerabilities (chronic medical conditions, disabilities), were rated as more related to dignity than other offences.

We show that people rated offences that resulted in humiliation, shame, and embarrassment as more related to dignity than those that resulted in anger, and control condition (no emotions specified).

Previous work has shown that people are not able to coherently describe the differences between dignity and respect. In our paper we show that regular people can actually recognise the unique value of dignity in a set of carefully crafted moral vignettes describing one person offending another.

My colleague A/Prof Kiley Seymour has one on mental privacy in the age of neuro-technology: sites.google.com/uts.edu.au/h...

There is a project on using computational cognitive models to improve human-robot collaboration, supervised by me and Dist. Prof. Dikai Liu from the UTS Robotics Institute: sites.google.com/uts.edu.au/c...