Lay Perspectives on the Physical and Nonphysical Nature of Consciousness 
⭐️Recent work by Rachel Metzgar, Tania Lombrozo & Michael S. A. Graziano

‼️From Matthew Lindauer: The Fruitfulness of Normative Concepts

Children’s Developing Ability to Predict Novel Outcomes From Variability Information 
📣From Elizabeth Lapidow, Mariel Goddu & Caren Walker

🚨Recent work by Cristina I. Galusca, Liuba Papeo & Luca L. Bonatti: The effect of ostensive communication on immediate and delayed memory of novel and familiar action patterns

The minds that matter: How robots’ mental capacities shape children’s evaluations and trust 📣Recent work by Anastasiia D. Grigoreva Crean & Arber Tasimi

Children’s judgments of possibility align with their judgments of actuality 
‼️From Mo Pabla, Andrew Shtulman & Ori Friedman

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. @ssripennstate.bsky.social @psuliberalarts.bsky.social @rockethics.bsky.social 1/n

📣From Eugen Fischer, Keith Allen & Paul E. Engelhardt: Scientific or naïve? Perceptions of direct and indirect realism, and why they matter

People can find their true selves outside moral pursuits 
⭐️Recent work by Jordan Wylie, Matthew Lindauer & Ana Gantman

🚨🚨🚨 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 🚨🚨🚨 We are currently inviting submissions of papers (talks and posters)!

Scientific or naïve? Perceptions of direct and indirect realism, and why they matter 
⭐️ Work by Eugen Fischer, Keith Allen & Paul E. Engelhardt

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

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

Hiding discrimination in plain sight: The development of reasoning about disparate impact policies 
‼️ From Aarthi Popat, Jamie Amemiya, Gail D. Heyman & Caren M. Walker

📣From Kerem Oktar & Tania Lombrozo: How Beliefs Persist Amid Controversy: The Paths to Persistence Model

Challenges to Narrating a Multitudinous Self: Towards a Better Ethics of Code-switching
 ⭐️Work from Leda Berio & Daniel Kelly

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

🚨From Jay Naborn & Jonathan E. Bogard: The Pick-the-Winner-Picker Heuristic: Preference for Categorically Correct Forecasts

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

Radical Embodied Relation at any Scale, from Remembering to Navigating ⭐️ From Andrea Hiott

People use norms, values, codification, and enforceability to determine if a rule was broken 📣 Recent work from Jordan Wylie, Dries Bostyn, & Ana Gantman

Historical and experimental evidence that inherent properties are overweighted in early scientific explanation 
🌟From Zachary Horne, Mert Kobaş & Andrei Cimpian

‼️ Recent work by Setayesh Radkani, Joshua Tenenbaum & Rebecca Saxe: What people learn from punishment: A cognitive model

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

The moral pull of “women and children” 
🚨Work by Anastasiia D. Grigoreva Crean, Stella F. Lourenco & Arber Tasimi

Somebody Should Do Something: How Anyone Can Help Create Social Change 
📚From Michael Brownstein, Alex Madva & Daniel Kelly

🚨Recent work from Jane Acierno, Clare Kennedy, Fiery Cushman & Jonathan Phillips: Inverse option generation: Inferences about others' values based on what comes to mind

Contrasting guilty minds: Exposure to contrast concepts narrows conceptions of acting knowingly and recklessly 
🚨From Christian Mott and Larisa Heiphetz Solomon

📣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

🌟From Andrew Shtulman, Lucy Stoll, Lesly Sabroso & Andrew Young: Children's detection of online misinformation

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

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

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

📣From Mitchell Herschbach: Revising Simulation Theory Beyond Recognition: A Reply to Yousefi Heris (2024)

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

🚨From Alessandra Geraci, Luca Surian, Lucia Gabriela Tina & J. Kiley Hamlin: Human newborns spontaneously attend to prosocial interactions

Lay perceptions of psychology: the (mis)match between lay beliefs and explanatory stances 📣Work by Francisco Cruz & André Mata

🌟From Nicolò Cesana-Arlotti, Sofia Jáuregui, Peter Mazalik, Shaun Nichols & Justin Halberda: Logical concepts of (im)possibility guide young children's decision-making

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

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!

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

Of Machines and Men: Attributions of Moral Responsibility in AI-Assisted Warfare 📣 Work by Philip Robbins

🚨📚 From Timothy Justus: Cognition and the Arts: From Naturalized Aesthetics to the Cognitive Humanities

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. moralconsortium.psu.edu 1/n

📣📚By Rasmus R. Larsen: Psychopathy Unmasked: The Rise and Fall of a Dangerous Diagnosis

What will society think about AI consciousness? Lessons from the animal case 
‼️From Lucius Caviola, Jeff Sebo & Jonathan Birch

📣 From Francisco Cruz & Tania Lombrozo: How laypeople evaluate scientific explanations containing jargon

Eating Fewer Animals: A Defense of Reducetarianism 
🚨 Recent work by Joshua May & Victor Kumar

‼️ From Julian De Freitas, Gideon Nave & Stefano Puntoni: Ideation with Generative AI—In Consumer Research and Beyond

🚨 From Young-eun Lee & Larisa Heiphetz Solomon: Children's and adults' understanding of how punishment shapes social relationships