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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
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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…
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0272494425002610
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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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https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/00222437251381209
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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
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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
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…
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0010027725002562
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Radical Embodied Relation at any Scale, from Remembering to Navigating ⭐️ From Andrea Hiott
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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...
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11245-025-10256-7
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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
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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...
https://doi.org/10.1162/opmi.a.19
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Historical and experimental evidence that inherent properties are overweighted in early scientific explanation 🌟From Zachary Horne, Mert Kobaş & Andrei Cimpian
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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 ...
https://www.pnas.org/doi/abs/10.1073/pnas.2424725122
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‼️ Recent work by Setayesh Radkani, Joshua Tenenbaum & Rebecca Saxe: What people learn from punishment: A cognitive model
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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...
https://www.pnas.org/doi/abs/10.1073/pnas.2500730122
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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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https://psycnet.apa.org/record/2026-68143-001
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The moral pull of “women and children” 🚨Work by Anastasiia D. Grigoreva Crean, Stella F. Lourenco & Arber Tasimi
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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 (…
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0010027725002616?via%3Dihub
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Somebody Should Do Something: How Anyone Can Help Create Social Change 📚From Michael Brownstein, Alex Madva & Daniel Kelly
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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...
https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262049788/somebody-should-do-something/
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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
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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 …
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0010027725001787?via%3Dihub
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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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https://psycnet.apa.org/doi/10.1037/xap0000547
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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
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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...
https://doi.org/10.1162/opmi.a.12
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🌟From Andrew Shtulman, Lucy Stoll, Lesly Sabroso & Andrew Young: Children's detection of online misinformation
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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…
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0010027725002197
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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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PNAS
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...
https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2515833122
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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
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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...
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/17588928.2025.2543890
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The Role of Gender Labels and Gendered Appearances in Children's Social Inferences 🚨From Jenna Alton, Andrei Cimpian & Lucas Payne Butler
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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…
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0010027725002215
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📣From Mitchell Herschbach: Revising Simulation Theory Beyond Recognition: A Reply to Yousefi Heris (2024)
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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...
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10670-025-00993-x
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Motivated bias blind spot: people confess to more or less bias depending on its desirability ‼️Work by Francisco Cruz & André Mata
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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...
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11299-025-00325-0
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🚨From Alessandra Geraci, Luca Surian, Lucia Gabriela Tina & J. Kiley Hamlin: Human newborns spontaneously attend to prosocial interactions
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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...
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-025-61517-3
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Lay perceptions of psychology: the (mis)match between lay beliefs and explanatory stances 📣Work by Francisco Cruz & André Mata
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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....
https://doi.org/10.1080/09515089.2025.2514626
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🌟From Nicolò Cesana-Arlotti, Sofia Jáuregui, Peter Mazalik, Shaun Nichols & Justin Halberda: Logical concepts of (im)possibility guide young children's decision-making
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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.....
https://doi.org/10.1111/desc.70044
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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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https://psycnet.apa.org/doi/10.1037/dev0002060
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Andrew Shtulman
about 2 months ago
Nice piece by
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where he implies that the only interdisciplinary conversations worth having are those at SPP (
@socphilpsych.bsky.social
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@oldjerryfodor.bsky.social
for putting together a conversation-inspiring SPP 2025!
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A nice post in praise of the
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Of Machines and Men: Attributions of Moral Responsibility in AI-Assisted Warfare 📣 Work by Philip Robbins
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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...
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10676-025-09844-3
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🚨📚 From Timothy Justus: Cognition and the Arts: From Naturalized Aesthetics to the Cognitive Humanities
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Cognition and the Arts
Cambridge Core - Cognition - Cognition and the Arts
https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/cognition-and-the-arts/6367F62FA867D299224C35648C57950F
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Daryl Cameron
2 months ago
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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Home - Consortium on Moral Decision-Making
Welcome to the Consortium on Moral Decision-Making A collaborative hub dedicated to unraveling the intricate threads of ethical choices. As a multidisciplinary alliance of scholars, thinkers, and prac...
https://moralconsortium.psu.edu
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📣📚By Rasmus R. Larsen: Psychopathy Unmasked: The Rise and Fall of a Dangerous Diagnosis
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Psychopathy Unmasked: The Rise and Fall of a Dangerous Diagnosis
Why our fascination with psychopaths is scientifically wrongheaded, and how the criminal justice system has misused the controversial science of psychopath
https://direct.mit.edu/books/monograph/5992/Psychopathy-UnmaskedThe-Rise-and-Fall-of-a
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What will society think about AI consciousness? Lessons from the animal case ‼️From Lucius Caviola, Jeff Sebo & Jonathan Birch
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What will society think about AI consciousness? Lessons from the animal case
How will society respond to the idea that artificial intelligence (AI) could be conscious? Drawing on lessons from perceptions of animal consciousness…
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1364661325001470
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📣 From Francisco Cruz & Tania Lombrozo: How laypeople evaluate scientific explanations containing jargon
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How laypeople evaluate scientific explanations containing jargon - Nature Human Behaviour
Cruz and Lombrozo examine how laypeople make sense of scientific explanations and find that although jargon reduces understanding, for short explanations, jargon makes the explanation more satisfying.
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41562-025-02227-0
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Eating Fewer Animals: A Defense of Reducetarianism 🚨 Recent work by Joshua May & Victor Kumar
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Joshua May & Victor Kumar, Eating Fewer Animals: A Defense of Reducetarianism - PhilPapers
Moral arguments against the consumption of animal products from factory farms are traditionally categorical. The conclusions require people to eliminate from their diets all animal products (veganism)...
https://philpapers.org/rec/MAYEFA-2
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‼️ From Julian De Freitas, Gideon Nave & Stefano Puntoni: Ideation with Generative AI—In Consumer Research and Beyond
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Ideation with Generative AI—In Consumer Research and Beyond - Article - Faculty & Research - Harvard Business School
https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=67118
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🚨 From Young-eun Lee & Larisa Heiphetz Solomon: Children's and adults' understanding of how punishment shapes social relationships
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Children’s and adults’ understanding of how punishment shapes social relationships
Punishment regulates selfish behaviors and maintains cooperation. However, because punishment imposes costs on another person, it could also harm rela…
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0022096525001377
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Children’s reasoning about possible outcomes of events in the present and the future 📣 Work by Esra N. Turan-Küçük & Melissa M. Kibbe
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https://psycnet.apa.org/doi/10.1037/dev0002028
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Syntactic and semantic gender biases in the language on children’s television: Evidence from a corpus of 98 shows from 1960 to 2018 🚨 From Andrea C. Vial, Aida Mostafazadeh Davani, Ruyuan Zuo, Shreya Havaldar, Eleanor K. Chestnut, Morteza Dehghani & Andrei Cimpian
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Syntactic and Semantic Gender Biases in the Language on Children’s Television: Evidence From a Corpus of 98 Shows From 1960 to 2018 - Andrea C. Vial, Aida Mostafazadeh Davani, Ruyuan Zuo, Shreya Haval...
Biased media content shapes children’s social concepts and identities. We examined gender bias in a large corpus of scripts from 98 children’s television progra...
https://doi.org/10.1177/09567976251349815
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🌟 From Merve Erodan, Wenyan Bi, Ilker Yildirim & Brian Scholl: Dynamic point-light cloths generate rich percepts beyond biology
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Dynamic point-light cloths generate rich percepts beyond biology
Highly sparse stimuli can nevertheless give rise to rich percepts of biological motion, suggesting a potentially unique form of “social perception.” Erdogan et al. show that such phenomena also occur ...
https://www.cell.com/current-biology/abstract/S0960-9822(25)00557-3
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Unregulated Emotional Risks of AI Wellness Apps ‼️ Recent work from Julian De Freitas & Glenn Cohen
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Unregulated emotional risks of AI wellness apps - Nature Machine Intelligence
We propose that AI-driven wellness apps powered by large language models can foster extreme emotional attachments and dependencies akin to human relationships — posing risks such as ambiguous loss and...
https://www.nature.com/articles/s42256-025-01051-5
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📣From Nick Byrd: A Two-Factor Explication Of ‘Reflection’: Unifying, Making Sense Of, And Guiding The Philosophy And Science Of Reflective Reasoning
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Nick Byrd, A Two-Factor Explication Of ‘Reflection’: Unifying, Making Sense Of, And Guiding The Philosophy And Science Of Reflective Reasoning - PhilPapers
Reflective reasoning has been central to philosophy and cognitive science more generally. However, scholars lack a unified empirical explication of ‘reflection’. This paper synthesizes a cross-discipl...
https://philpapers.org/rec/BYRATE-2
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🌟Recent work by Lilian Behm, Nicholas B. Turk-Browne & Melissa M. Kibbe: The ubiquity of episodic-like memory in infancy
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The ubiquity of episodic-like memory during infancy
Considerable progress has been made in understanding early memory development. However, much of this research pre-dates contemporary theories of memor…
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1364661325000828?dgcid=coauthor
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📣From Kyle Landrum: Good Explanations and the Causal Metasemantics of Inductive Concepts
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Good Explanations and the Causal Metasemantics of Inductive Concepts
Abstract. A metasemantic theory tells us why a particular concept has its particular content, for example, why the concept orang-utan has orang-utans as it
https://academic.oup.com/mind/advance-article-abstract/doi/10.1093/mind/fzaf024/8158323?utm_source=advanceaccess&utm_campaign=mind&utm_medium=email
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When development constricts our moral circle ‼️From Julia Marshall, Matti Wilks, Lucius Caviola & Karri Neldner
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When development constricts our moral circle - Nature Human Behaviour
Although many believe our moral circles expand with age, this Perspective discusses an early-emerging tendency to care for others.
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41562-025-02212-7
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Larisa Heiphetz Solomon
3 months ago
So glad to have worked on this together and to see this paper out in the world! 🧪
#PsychSciSky
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🚨From Christina A. Bauer, Aashna Poddar, Eddie Brummelman & Andrei Cimpian: The Brilliance–Belonging Model: How cultural beliefs about intellectual ability undermine educational equity
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The Brilliance–Belonging Model: How Cultural Beliefs About Intellectual Ability Undermine Educational Equity - Educational Psychology Review
As societies worldwide grapple with substantial educational inequities, understanding their underlying causes remains a priority. Here, we introduce the Brilliance–Belonging Model, a novel theoretical...
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10648-025-10034-2
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AI Companions Reduce Loneliness 📣Recent work from Julian De Freitas, Ahmet K. Uguralp, Zeliha Uğuralp & Stefano Puntoni
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AI Companions Reduce Loneliness
Abstract. Chatbots are now able to engage in sophisticated conversations with consumers in the domain of relationships, providing a potential coping soluti
https://doi.org/10.1093/jcr/ucaf040
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Neurodiversity with Nuance 🚨Recent work by Joshua May
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Joshua May, Neurodiversity with Nuance - PhilPapers
The neurodiversity movement grew out of the autism community but is now being applied to many neurological types, from dyslexia to schizophrenia. The resulting neurodiversity paradigm maintains that t...
https://philpapers.org/rec/MAYNWN
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🌟 From Mario Belledonne, Eivinas Butkus, Brian Scholl & Ilker Yildirim: Adaptive computation as a new mechanism of dynamic human attention
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https://psycnet.apa.org/doi/10.1037/rev0000572
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🚨Recent work by Şerife Tekin & Megan Delehanty: Beyond Doomsday Fears: Why We Need to Consider the Potential Harms of AI Psychotherapy
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Beyond Doomsday Fears: Why We Need to Consider the Potential Harms of AI Psychotherapy
There is increased enthusiasm about the use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) technologies in psychotherapy. Notably, AI psychotherapy chatbots are increasing in popularity, especially since the US F...
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/15265161.2025.2457724
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📣📚From Rodrigo Diaz: No reason to focus on emotional episodes
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Rodrigo Díaz, No reason to focus on emotional episodes - PhilPapers
Christine Tappolet’s book Philosophy of Emotion: A contemporary introduction, and many other works in emotion theory, focus primarily on emotional episodes at the expense of so-called “emotional dispo...
https://philpapers.org/rec/DAZNRT
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Alexa "Lex" Sacchi
5 months ago
Do you think your values or personality are different from your parents? What about your kids? What do these perceptions say about how we view the future? Find out at my poster today in booth 50! And hear more from the StarLab at the poster session tomorrow ⭐
#SPP2025
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