This #MemberMonday, check out the outstanding work done by SPSP members @jimaceverett.bsky.social (also an SPSP Board member) and Claudia Manzi on the European Association of Social Psychology's Summer School! Congrats to all the scholars who made this event a success! 📰: ow.ly/SFMW50X73J0

So grateful for the chance to attend the EASP Summer School organized by @jimaceverett.bsky.social. Huge thanks to @jimaceverett.bsky.social and @mgreinecke.bsky.social for your mentorship in the Moral Psych of AI workstream, and to all of the other amazing students I had the chance to learn from!

So grateful for the new research ideas & friendships made at the EASP Summer School at Uni of Kent! Thank you to @jimaceverett.bsky.social & @mgreinecke.bsky.social for being amazing mentors of our Moral Psychology of AI workstream. Here are some pics of us working & exploring Canterbury, England!

The 2025 EASP Summer School at the University of Kent is kicking off in just a few days and we are SO excited to welcome 80 brilliant early-career researchers from across Europe for 10 days of collaboration, community, and cutting-edge social psychology 🙏 Find out more: blogs.kent.ac.uk/easp2025/

New research from MIT found that those who used ChatGPT can’t remember any of the content of their essays. Key takeaway: the product doesn’t suffer, but the process does. And when it comes to essays, the process *is* how they learn. arxiv.org/pdf/2506.088...

Only 10 days left to apply for this phd position on education-based identities, status, and political attitudes! Open to those interested in sociology, social psychology, political science, communication science or indeed a combination of all. jobs.vub.be/job/Elsene-P...

Roses in the garden 😍

There are 2 previous historical cases of countries destroying their science and universities, crippling them for decades: Lysenkoism in the USSR and Nazi Germany. The Trump administration will be the 3rd. It's not just budgets but research, institutions, expertise, and training the next generation.

In Granada and enjoying this beautiful view while working my slides 😍

Is anyone going to SPSP in Chicago and interested in submitting on a symposium about moral psychology and AI? 🤖

Join Prof. Jim Everett (@jimaceverett.bsky.social) exploring cutting-edge questions in AI ethics: 📅 June 2: "Trust in Artificial Moral Advisors" 📅 June 3: "Negative Perceptions of Outsourcing to AI" @universidadgranada.bsky.social | moral sci lab | @cimcyc.bsky.social #AIEthics #MoralPsychology

Every spring, my roses remind me about something important in academia that is easy to forget: the power of perseverance, patience, and the confidence that hard work will pay off in the end .

I love my garden this time of year when all the roses come out 🌹🥰

🚨🚨 NEW PRE-PRINT 🚨🚨 Prominent theories in political psychology argue that threat causes increases in conservatism. Early experimental work supported this idea, but many of these studies were (severely) underpowered, and examined only a few threats and ideological DVs. 1/n osf.io/preprints/ps...

And aside from the ethical risks, we form negative character impressions of those who use AI for such socio-relational tasks! osf.io/preprints/ps...

Kudos to the four editors and scores of authors for bringing the Handbook of Social Psychology 6th edition to the public and open access! The other chapters are likely to be my reading project this summer ... Here's my own contribution, in any case. the-hsp.com doi.org/10.70400/ZUT...

🚨 New study reveals that when used to summarize scientific research, generative AI is nearly five times less accurate than humans. Many haven't realized, but Gen AI's accuracy problem is worse than initially thought.

I've posted an advert for PhD scholarship to work with me on moral psychology and AI at the University of Kent 🤖🧠📚 Full details here: www.kent.ac.uk/scholarships...

Is anyone putting together a symposium for #SESP2025 in 🇵🇹 Lisbon? I would like to go, but the symposium-only format is proving difficult. Looking to present grant-funded research on occupational moral roles, which also fits stereotypes, social categories, etc.

What makes people feel entitled to rewards—the effort they put into their work or the outcomes they achieve? Out now in PNAS; with Jin Kim and Jared Wong: Achievement. Effort seems to matter very little (if at all). www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

The AP's use of pronouns in this headline sure is ... something

Very keen to work with potential applicants to come work me at Kent on things related to moral psychology :)

How contemplating art helps us to see the bigger picture www.thetimes.com/article/3829...

Why did we become convinced that the answer was always “disruption”, when experience tells us that the achievement of civilisation is the opposite? The move from chaos to organisation. The move from vulnerability to stability. Move carefully and fix things.

Check out our new pre-print on negative perceptions of outsourcing to AI!

🚨New Preprint Alert! 🚨 How do people perceive those who outsource tasks to AI – especially in deeply human domains like relationships? In a new preprint led by my PostDoc Scott Claessens and PhD student Pierce Veitch, we explore this.

Moral conformity in a digital world: Human and nonhuman agents as a source of social pressure for judgments of moral character | PLOS One

Challenging AI-hype with @jimaceverett.bsky.social and charting a more responsible and virtuous course #aiethics

There is a lot of hype about AI and empathy, but what role do we really want AI to play in enhancing empathy? 🤖 Here, Ethan Landes and I argue that AI should only develop human empathy as a tool for moral growth, not replace it 👇 osf.io/preprints/ps... @ethanlandes.bsky.social

Really excited to hear about this work; come by @uehiro.ox.ac.uk this afternoon if you're able! 🤖 #AI #ethics

Super excited for our lab @philmoralpsych.bsky.social to be hosting a talk by the brilliant @jimaceverett.bsky.social today on his group's latest work on moral reasoning and AI 👇

Looking forward to presenting today at 4pm in the Oxford Uehiro Institute talking about work with my PostDoc Scott Claessens and my PhD student Pierce Veitch on how we view others who outsource different tasks to AI and the role that effort plays in shaping perceptions of others.

I've just finished the most amazing hiking trip across Gran Canaria. I have sore legs but will cherish these beautiful views and memories and new friends for a long time to come. What a beautiful island.

With changes happening in the world, I've been thinking about this chilling scene from the classic movie Cabaret recently. www.youtube.com/watch?v=_tUc...

AI's social design must reflect human roles (teacher, friend). Relational norms define appropriate behavior. AI's unique traits impact these norms. Ethical design ensures well-being, avoiding unhealthy dependencies. @briandavidearp.bsky.social

Does The Lion King’s Scar vote Democrat or Republican? Is Marvel’s Iron Man a Tory or Labour supporter? Research by @turnbulldugarte.com & @markuswagner.bsky.social finds people tend to project ingroup/outgroup political identity to respectively fictional heroes and villains: buff.ly/ktq9YM7

Academic Friends: What is a good tool for organizing an online petition that one might distribute via email to academic peers? Google docs doesn't seem to have an easy way to make a petition.

Some new data in on support for political aggression and violence... First, we asked people who they think is doing the most harm in American politics. Clear agreement among Democrats but more variation among Republicans - and some surprising responses.

Le Monde reporting that a French scientist traveling to Houston to attend a conference was denied entry to US after a search of his phone & computer revealed messages critical of Trump's science cuts, "which [says CPB] conveyed hatred of Trump & could be qualified as terrorism". Computer confiscated

Since US academics are talking about @standupforscience.bsky.social and how "a threat to science anywhere is a threat to science everywhere", there is also a crisis in UK Higher Edu. Read the personal accounts and scroll down for more comments👇🏻! www.timeshighereducation.com/depth/uks-re...

Just an absolutely, fundamentally wrong way to report this research. AI models do not experience "anxiety" or any other emotion. This is misinforming the public. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/17/s...

On my home from a fantastic visit as Visiting Fellow at Centre for Advanced Studies at LMU Munich. Thanks so much to Mathias Twardawski for inviting me. So many interesting discussions with the whole team, and I'm so excited for our new collaborations! @caslmu.bsky.social @mtwardawski.bsky.social

New paper out in SPPS w/ @jaimiekrems.bsky.social (open access) doi.org/10.1177/1948... People who oppose abortion typically suggest that their position is motivated by concern for the unborn. But is there more going on?

It might be overreacting but I’m getting more and more concerned about travelling to the US for work…

📢 The Princeton Social Neuroscience Lab is hiring! 📢 We're seeking a full-time Research Specialist/Lab Manager to study naturalistic conversation, social cognition, and spontaneous thought. More info here: psnlab.princeton.edu/join-us Please apply and share!

I've been on a weightloss journey (part intentional, part unintentional), and this quote in this article really summarises my feelings. It's really discomforting to realise how much your looks shape all kinds of interactions, even non-romantic. www.bbc.com/news/article...

📣 Submissions are now open for The British Psychological Society Social Psychology Section annual conference taking place at Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford from 8-10 September 2025. Come join us! Submission deadline 23rd April 2025. www.bps.org.uk/event/social...

Even if we are doing the epistemic heavy lifting of verifying what is said, LLMs’ bullshit can be valuable to us as knowers New post at the APA Blog: blog.apaonline.org/2025/03/13/l...