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Society for Philosophy and Psychology @socphilpsych.bsky.social · 10h

‼️ 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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Society for Philosophy and Psychology @socphilpsych.bsky.social · 10h

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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Society for Philosophy and Psychology @socphilpsych.bsky.social · 2d

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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Society for Philosophy and Psychology @socphilpsych.bsky.social · 2d

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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Society for Philosophy and Psychology @socphilpsych.bsky.social · 6d

🚨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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Society for Philosophy and Psychology @socphilpsych.bsky.social · 6d

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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Society for Philosophy and Psychology @socphilpsych.bsky.social · 7d

📣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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Society for Philosophy and Psychology @socphilpsych.bsky.social · 7d

🌟From Andrew Shtulman, Lucy Stoll, Lesly Sabroso & Andrew Young:

Children's detection of online misinformation

Children's detection of online misinformation

Adults' ability to detect online misinformation is improved by cognitive reflection and targeted instruction. Is the same true for children, who are a…

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Society for Philosophy and Psychology @socphilpsych.bsky.social · 10d

Preschool teachers provide fewer participation opportunities to working-class students than those from more privileged backgrounds
 ‼️ Recent work by Lewis Doyle, Andrei Cimpian, Louise Goupil & Sébastien Goudeau

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Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), a peer reviewed journal of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) - an authoritative source of high-impact, original research that broadly spans...

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Society for Philosophy and Psychology @socphilpsych.bsky.social · 15d

Rethinking category-selectivity in human visual cortex

‼️Recent work by J. Brendan Ritchie, Susan G. Wardle, Maryam Vaziri-Paskham, Dwight J. Kravitz & Chris I. Baker

Rethinking category-selectivity in human visual cortex

A wealth of studies report evidence that occipitotemporal cortex tessellates into ‘category-selective’ brain regions that are apparently specialized for representing ecologically important visual s...

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Society for Philosophy and Psychology @socphilpsych.bsky.social · 15d

The Role of Gender Labels and Gendered Appearances in Children's Social Inferences
 🚨From Jenna Alton, Andrei Cimpian & Lucas Payne Butler

The role of gender labels and gendered appearances in children's social inferences

Two preregistered studies investigated how children use gender labels and gendered appearances when making inductive inferences about unfamiliar indiv…

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Society for Philosophy and Psychology @socphilpsych.bsky.social · 22d

📣From Mitchell Herschbach:

Revising Simulation Theory Beyond Recognition: A Reply to Yousefi Heris (2024)

Revising Simulation Theory Beyond Recognition: A Reply to Yousefi Heris (2024) - Erkenntnis

(Yousefi Heris, Erkenntnis, 2024) offers a version of simulation theory, building on (Goldman, Simulating minds: The philosophy, psychology, and neuroscience of mindreading, Oxford University Press, 2...

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Society for Philosophy and Psychology @socphilpsych.bsky.social · 22d

Motivated bias blind spot: people confess to more or less bias depending on its desirability
 ‼️Work by Francisco Cruz & André Mata

Motivated bias blind spot: people confess to more or less bias depending on its desirability - Mind & Society

Though people readily claim that others fall prey to several biases, they are less likely to recognize those same biases in themselves – a tendency termed bias blind spot (Pronin et al. in Personality...

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Society for Philosophy and Psychology @socphilpsych.bsky.social · 28d

🚨From Alessandra Geraci, Luca Surian, Lucia Gabriela Tina & J. Kiley Hamlin:

Human newborns spontaneously attend to prosocial interactions

Human newborns spontaneously attend to prosocial interactions - Nature Communications

Abilities to distinguish between prosocial and antisocial actions are crucial for sustaining cooperative systems. Here, the authors show that human newborns with just 5 days of postnatal experience al...

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Society for Philosophy and Psychology @socphilpsych.bsky.social · 28d

Lay perceptions of psychology: the (mis)match between lay beliefs and explanatory stances

📣Work by Francisco Cruz & André Mata

Lay perceptions of psychology: the (mis)match between lay beliefs and explanatory stances

People do not think that all psychological phenomena are equally explainable through science: Psychological phenomena associated with a high first-person subjective experience (henceforth, FPSE; i....

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Society for Philosophy and Psychology @socphilpsych.bsky.social · 29d

🌟From Nicolò Cesana-Arlotti, Sofia Jáuregui, Peter Mazalik, Shaun Nichols & Justin Halberda:

Logical concepts of (im)possibility guide young children's decision-making

Logical Concepts of (Im)possibility Guide Young Children's Decision‐Making

The human capacity for rational decisions hinges on modal judgment: the discernment of what could, has to, or cannot happen. This ability was proposed to be a late outcome of human cognitive develop.....

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Society for Philosophy and Psychology @socphilpsych.bsky.social · 29d

Intergenerational inferences about punishment: Judgments of children of incarcerated parents across development

‼️Recent work from Emily Gerdin, Devyani Goel, James P. Dunlea & Larisa Heiphetz Solomon

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Andrew Shtulman @andrewshtulman.bsky.social · 29d

Nice piece by @paulbloomatyale.bsky.social where he implies that the only interdisciplinary conversations worth having are those at SPP (@socphilpsych.bsky.social). I agree!

A big shoutout to @levelsof.bsky.social & @oldjerryfodor.bsky.social for putting together a conversation-inspiring SPP 2025!

Paul Bloom @paulbloomatyale.bsky.social · Sep 8

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The only interdisciplinary conversations worth having

(This is a niche post of interest to a relatively narrow community of scholars.

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Evan Westra @evanwestra.bsky.social · Sep 8

A nice post in praise of the @socphilpsych.bsky.social and the virtue of interdisplinary-mindedness.

Paul Bloom @paulbloomatyale.bsky.social · Sep 8

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The only interdisciplinary conversations worth having

(This is a niche post of interest to a relatively narrow community of scholars.

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Society for Philosophy and Psychology @socphilpsych.bsky.social · Sep 1

Of Machines and Men: Attributions of Moral Responsibility in AI-Assisted Warfare

📣 Work by Philip Robbins

Of machines and men: Attributions of moral responsibility in AI-assisted warfare - Ethics and Information Technology

Ethics and Information Technology - The ongoing development of autonomous weapons systems, and the increasing frequency of their deployment on the battlefield, poses a pressing problem for military...

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Society for Philosophy and Psychology @socphilpsych.bsky.social · Sep 1

🚨📚 From Timothy Justus:

Cognition and the Arts: From Naturalized Aesthetics to the Cognitive Humanities

Cognition and the Arts

Cambridge Core - Cognition - Cognition and the Arts

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Daryl Cameron @dcameron.bsky.social · Aug 31

As the fall semester begins, I'd like to send a call to anyone who would like to get involved in our Consortium on Moral Decision-Making. We're a dedicated network of morality and ethics researchers focused on breaking outside siloes to work together on big questions.
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