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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.

Dignity is a very important ethical concept, but a dangerously fuzzy one, which puts into question whether and how we can honour our obligations to treat people with dignity! Our new study detangles dignity and respect, by showing dignity has specific ties to humiliation.

What does it mean to treat someone with dignity, as opposed to, say, treating them with respect? This experiment successfully tests the philosophical theory that ties dignity specifically to humiliation.
With @andrejevic.bsky.social and Linda Barclay
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journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

A fabulous day of M3CS PhD presentations - Lars Sandved-Smith on pure awareness, @shawnprest.bsky.social on defabrication in meditation, @bethfisher.bsky.social Fisher on optimism and gratitude. All done brilliantly with active inference and FEP modelling.
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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...

The new Behavioural Sciences and Technology hub at UTS has two fully funded PhD positions available! More information on
www.uts.edu.au/about/gradua...

A language analysis of 7 core moral values in 256 societies finds that most of these values are present in most societies, all around the world, with only minor variation across cultural region

This is evidence of universality: www.cell.com/heliyon/full...

New preprint:

The Late Positive Event-Related Potential Component is Time-Locked to the Decision in Recognition Memory Tasks, by Jie Sun, Adam Osth and yours truly.

We took a careful look at the event-related potential (ERP) correlates of recognition memory decisions.

Abstract submission deadline for the Australasian Mathematical Psychology Conference in Perth in Feb 2024 has been extended to 22nd January ampc.mailchimpsites.com

FYI: we have just reported in a randomised controlled trial that our 18-month meditation programme can improve the wellbeing of older adults. Congratulation to Marco Schlosser and the Meditageing team, @SilverSanteEU, @MarchantLabUCL, x.com/uclnews/stat...

Ben Cook and I have just published "Can PP explain delusional beliefs?"
doi.org/10.1093/schb... (a commentary on Petrovic
and Sterzer's "Resolving the Delusion Paradox" doi.org/10.1093/schb... )
Honoured to have been rising star BRH Cook's first co-author, he's one to watch in comp psych!

Synthesising boredom: a predictive processing approach -- Lovely first paper from M3CS's Tom Darling

Pregnancy involves dramatic changes in the body and mind, but we know little about how the self changes, or the cognitive processes underlying this changing self. Check out my new preprint with @rebeccanineill.bsky.social and Sharna Jamadar where we aim to find out: osf.io/preprints/psya… A 🧵

New Minds Matter episode! We speak to Dr. Tarek Amer about his research on memory and aging 🧠Tune in to find out when older adults' 'sticky' memories not only aid in recollection but also enhance creativity 🎨

www.mindsmatterpodcast.com/s3-ep-6-your...

Birds of feather, flock together! 📣