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Don’t mind milk? The role of animal suffering, speciesism, and guilt in the denial of mind and moral status of dairy cows (2023)
Journal Article

Reminding meat-eaters that animals are being harmed for meat production, elicits psychological tension about meat consumption. Individuals deal with this tension by either reducing or stopping meat consumption or by denying the mind of food animals,... Read More about Don’t mind milk? The role of animal suffering, speciesism, and guilt in the denial of mind and moral status of dairy cows.

Would you exchange your soul for immortality?—existential meaning and afterlife beliefs predict mind upload approval (2023)
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Mind upload, or the digital copying of an individual brain and mind, could theoretically allow one to “live forever.” If such a technology became available, who would be most likely to approve of it or condemn it? Research has shown that fear of deat... Read More about Would you exchange your soul for immortality?—existential meaning and afterlife beliefs predict mind upload approval.

Virtual Reality in Experimental Moral Psychology Identifying and Understanding Judgment-Action Discrepancy (2023)
Book Chapter

Empathy Training through Virtual Reality: Moral Enhancement with the Freedom to Fall? (2023)
Journal Article

We propose to expand the conversation around moral enhancement from direct brain-altering methods to include technological means of modifying the environments and media through which agents can achieve moral improvement. Virtual Reality (VR) based en... Read More about Empathy Training through Virtual Reality: Moral Enhancement with the Freedom to Fall?.

Feeling morally troubled about meat, dairy, egg, and fish consumption: Dissonance reduction strategies among different dietary groups (2023)
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A largescale shift towards plant-based diets is considered a critical requirement for tackling ethical, environmental, and global health issues associated with animal food production and consumption. Although previous research has identified psycholo... Read More about Feeling morally troubled about meat, dairy, egg, and fish consumption: Dissonance reduction strategies among different dietary groups.

The role of confidence in knowledge ascriptions: an evidence-seeking approach (2023)
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Two methods have been used in the investigation of the stakes-sensitivity of knowledge as it occurs in ordinary language: (a) asking participants about the truth or acceptability of knowledge ascriptions and (b) asking participants how much evidence... Read More about The role of confidence in knowledge ascriptions: an evidence-seeking approach.

An empirical investigation of intuitions about uptake (2023)
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Since Austin’s introduction of the locutionary-illocutionary-perlocutionary distinction, it has been a matter of debate within speech act theory whether illocutionary acts like promising, warning, refusing and telling require audience ‘uptake’ in ord... Read More about An empirical investigation of intuitions about uptake.

Data from an International Multi-Centre Study of Statistics and Mathematics Anxieties and Related Variables in University Students (the SMARVUS Dataset) (2023)
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This large, international dataset contains survey responses from N = 12,570 students from 100 universities in 35 countries, collected in 21 languages. We measured anxieties (statistics, mathematics, test, trait, social interaction, performance, creat... Read More about Data from an International Multi-Centre Study of Statistics and Mathematics Anxieties and Related Variables in University Students (the SMARVUS Dataset).

Moral judgement and decision-making: theoretical predictions and null results (2023)
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The study of moral judgement and decision making examines the way predictions made by moral and ethical theories fare in real world settings. Such investigations are carried out using a variety of approaches and methods, such as experiments, modeling... Read More about Moral judgement and decision-making: theoretical predictions and null results.

Moral emotions and justifying beliefs about meat, fish, dairy and egg consumption: A comparative study of dietary groups (2023)
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Meat eaters and meat abstainers differ in their beliefs and moral emotions related to meat consumption alongside gender differences. Few studies have investigated beliefs and moral emotions in pescatarians and vegans. Little is known about difference... Read More about Moral emotions and justifying beliefs about meat, fish, dairy and egg consumption: A comparative study of dietary groups.

Moral psychology of nursing robots: Exploring the role of robots in dilemmas of patient autonomy (2022)
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Artificial intelligences (AIs) are widely used in tasks ranging from transportation to healthcare and military, but it is not yet known how people prefer them to act in ethically difficult situations. In five studies (an anthropological field study,... Read More about Moral psychology of nursing robots: Exploring the role of robots in dilemmas of patient autonomy.

Socratic Questionnaires (2022)
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When experimental participants are given the chance to reflect and revise their initial judgments in a dynamic conversational context, do their responses to philosophical scenarios differ from responses to those same scenarios presented in a traditio... Read More about Socratic Questionnaires.

Moral Decision-Making During COVID-19: Moral Judgements, Moralisation, and Everyday Behaviour (2022)
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This is the first (published) empirical research study to longitudinally investigate the moralisation of covid-related behaviours through the course of the pandemic and its relationship to utilitarian principles. The study tested individuals prior to... Read More about Moral Decision-Making During COVID-19: Moral Judgements, Moralisation, and Everyday Behaviour.

Moral Decision-Making During COVID-19: Moral Judgements, Moralisation, and Everyday Behaviour (2022)
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The COVID-19 pandemic continues to pose significant health, economic, and social challenges. Given that many of these challenges have moral relevance, the present studies investigate whether the COVID-19 pandemic is influencing moral decision-making... Read More about Moral Decision-Making During COVID-19: Moral Judgements, Moralisation, and Everyday Behaviour.

The moral foreign language effect is stable across presentation modalities (2020)
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People’s judgements and decisions often change when made in their foreign language. Existing research testing this foreign language effect has predominantly used text-based stimuli with little research focusing on the impact of listening to audio st... Read More about The moral foreign language effect is stable across presentation modalities.

Creativity and Destruction (2020)
Book Chapter

Openness across Disciplines: Reflecting on a Multiple Disciplinary Summer School (2020)
Book Chapter

Stakes, Scales, and Skepticism (2019)
Journal Article

There is conflicting experimental evidence about whether the “stakes” or importance of being wrong affect judgments about whether a subject knows a proposition. To date, judgments about stakes effects on knowledge have been investigated using binary... Read More about Stakes, Scales, and Skepticism.

Alcohol, empathy, and morality: acute effects of alcohol consumption on affective empathy and moral decision-making (2019)
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Rationale Hypothetical moral dilemmas, pitting characteristically utilitarian and non-utilitarian outcomes against each other, have played a central role in investigations of moral decision-making. Preferences for utilitarian over non-utilitarian re... Read More about Alcohol, empathy, and morality: acute effects of alcohol consumption on affective empathy and moral decision-making.

A Corpus Study of “Know”: On The Verification of Philosophers’ Frequency Claims about Language (2019)
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AbstractWe investigate claims about the frequency of “know” made by philosophers. Our investigation has several overlapping aims. First, we aim to show what is required to confirm or disconfirm philosophers’ claims about the comparative frequency of... Read More about A Corpus Study of “Know”: On The Verification of Philosophers’ Frequency Claims about Language.

The Experimental Psychology of Moral Enhancement: We Should If We Could, But We Can't (2018)
Journal Article

Virtual morality in the helping professions: Simulated action and resilience (2018)
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Recent advances in virtual technologies have allowed the investigation of simulated moral actions in aversive moral dilemmas. Previous studies have employed diverse populations to explore these actions, with little research considering the significan... Read More about Virtual morality in the helping professions: Simulated action and resilience.

Our gift to all of Us: GA(Y)AM: Preface (2017)
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This special issue of AVANT is all about Cognitive Innovation. It is not about CogNovo, the interdisciplinary and international doctoral training programme that produced three different Off the Lip events. It is not about Off the Lip 2017, the novel... Read More about Our gift to all of Us: GA(Y)AM: Preface.

Simulating Moral Actions: An Investigation of Personal Force in Virtual Moral Dilemmas (2017)
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(Not so) dangerous liaisons: A framework for evaluating collaborative research projects (2017)
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With advances in research environments and the accompanying increase in the complexity of research projects, the range of skills required to carry out research calls for an increase in interdisciplinary and collaborative work. CogNovo, a doctoral tra... Read More about (Not so) dangerous liaisons: A framework for evaluating collaborative research projects.

Thinkering through experiments: Nurturing transdisciplinary approaches to the design of testing tools (2017)
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In order to assess and understand human behavior, traditional approaches to experimental design incorporate testing tools that are often artificial and devoid of corporeal features. Whilst these offer experimental control in situations in which, meth... Read More about Thinkering through experiments: Nurturing transdisciplinary approaches to the design of testing tools.

Correction: Virtual Morality: Transitioning from Moral Judgment to Moral Action? (2017)
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