A5041233682- Psychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment
- Social and Intergroup Psychology
- Free Will and Agency
- Cultural Differences and Values
- Neuroethics, Human Enhancement, Biomedical Innovations
- Ethics in medical practice
- Law in Society and Culture
- Emotions and Moral Behavior
- Epistemology, Ethics, and Metaphysics
- Ethics and Social Impacts of AI
- Death Anxiety and Social Exclusion
- Organ Donation and Transplantation
- Palliative Care and End-of-Life Issues
- Grief, Bereavement, and Mental Health
- Decision-Making and Behavioral Economics
- Ethics in Business and Education
- Misinformation and Its Impacts
- Law, Economics, and Judicial Systems
- Jury Decision Making Processes
- Ethics and Legal Issues in Pediatric Healthcare
- Philosophy and Theoretical Science
- Political Philosophy and Ethics
- Evolutionary Psychology and Human Behavior
- Hate Speech and Cyberbullying Detection
- Leadership, Courage, and Heroism Studies
Universidad de Granada
2017-2024
Ithaca College
2024
Universidad de Sevilla
2024
Universitat de València
2023
University of Bucharest
2023
Wellcome Centre for Ethics and Humanities
2023
Ruhr University Bochum
2023
Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro
2016-2022
Stanford University
2022
University of Sheffield
2011-2021
Moral condemnation of harmful behavior is influenced by both cognitive and affective processes. However, despite much recent research, the proximate source affect remains unclear. One obvious contender empathy; simulating victim's pain could lead one to judge an action as wrong ("outcome aversion"). An alternative, less one's own aversion performing itself ("action To dissociate these alternatives, we developed a scale that assessed individual aversions (a) witnessing others experience...
There is a rich tradition in bioethics of gathering empirical data to inform, supplement, or test the implications normative ethical analysis. To this end, bioethicists have drawn on diverse methods, including qualitative interviews, focus groups, ethnographic studies, and opinion surveys advance understanding key issues bioethics. In so doing, they developed strong ties with neighboring disciplines such as anthropology, history, law, sociology. Collectively, these lines research flourished...
This paper explores an emerging sub-field of both empirical bioethics and experimental philosophy, which has been called "experimental philosophical bioethics" (bioxphi). As discipline, bioxphi adopts the methods moral psychology cognitive science; it does so to make sense eliciting factors underlying processes that shape people's judgments, particularly about real-world matters bioethical concern. Yet, as a normative discipline situated within broader field bioethics, also aims contribute...
A cross-cultural survey experiment revealed a dominant tendency to rely on rule’s letter over its spirit when deciding which behaviors violate the rule. This varied markedly across ( k = 15) countries, owing variation in impact of moral appraisals judgments rule violation. Compared with laypeople, legal experts were more inclined disregard their evaluations acts altogether and consequently exhibited stronger textualist tendencies. Finally, we evaluated plausible mechanism for emergence...
The psychedelic psilocybin has shown promise both as treatment for psychiatric conditions and a means of improving well-being in healthy individuals. In some jurisdictions (e.g., Oregon, USA), use purposes is or will soon be allowed yet, public attitudes toward this shift are understudied. We asked nationally representative sample 795 US Americans to evaluate the moral status an appropriately licensed setting either condition enhancement. Showing strong bipartisan support, participants rated...
Since at least Hume and Kant, philosophers working on the nature of aesthetic judgment have generally agreed that common sense does not treat judgments in same way as typical expressions subjective preferences—rather, it endows them with intersubjective validity, property being right or wrong regardless disagreement. Moreover, this apparent validity has been taken to constitute one main explananda for philosophical accounts judgment. But is really case most people spontaneously having...
How we should design and interact with social artificial intelligence depends on the socio-relational role AI is meant to emulate or occupy. In human society, relationships such as teacher-student, parent-child, neighbors, siblings, employer-employee are governed by specific norms that prescribe proscribe cooperative functions including hierarchy, care, transaction, mating. These shape our judgments of what appropriate for each partner. For example, workplace may allow a boss give orders an...
The injectable medication Ozempic (semaglutide) has demonstrated unprecedented effectiveness in promoting significant weight loss. However, its use sparked moral debates, with critics dismissing it as a mere "shortcut" compared to traditional methods like diet and exercise. This study investigates how loss method—Ozempic, diet/exercise, or combination of both—impacts judgments perceptions effort, praiseworthiness, identity/value change. We used contrastive vignette technique two experiments...
The injectable medication Ozempic (semaglutide) has demonstrated unprecedented effectiveness in promoting significant weight loss. However, its use sparked moral debates, with critics dismissing it as a mere "shortcut" compared to traditional methods like diet and exercise. This study investigates how loss method—Ozempic, diet/exercise, or combination of both—impacts judgments perceptions effort, praiseworthiness, identity/value change. We used contrastive vignette technique two experiments...
While artificial intelligence increasingly democratises art creation, people tend to devalue AI-generated content—a phenomenon known as algorithm aversion. Recent work suggests that personalized AI models, trained on a user's past work, can increase credit attribution in text generation. We investigated whether this effect extends visual and examined the relationship between aesthetic appreciation. Across two studies (N=774), UK participants evaluated identical paintings were described being...
While artificial intelligence increasingly democratises art creation, people tend to devalue AI-generated content—a phenomenon known as algorithm aversion. Recent work suggests that personalized AI models, trained on a user's past work, can increase credit attribution in text generation. We investigated whether this effect extends visual and examined the relationship between aesthetic appreciation. Across two studies (N=774), UK participants evaluated identical paintings were described being...
In Europe, although integration of the immigrant population is acknowledged as a multidimensional challenge, precise dimensions have varied considerably throughout past decades and between nations. Nowadays, most states adopted ‘civic integration’ programmes to some extent, thereby placing weight on acquisition ‘national moral values’, implying that successful requires assimilation certain core values implementing various strategies instil these in immigrants. However, critics civic called...
While artificial intelligence increasingly democratises art creation, people tend to devalue AI-generated content—a phenomenon known as algorithm aversion. Recent work suggests that personalized AI models, trained on a user's past work, can increase credit attribution in text generation. We investigated whether this effect extends visual and examined the relationship between aesthetic appreciation. Across two studies (N=774), UK participants evaluated identical paintings were described being...
Abstract Conservatives and liberals disagree sharply on matters of morality public policy. We propose a novel account the psychological basis these differences. Specifically, we find that conservatives tend to emphasize intrinsic value actions during moral judgment, in part by mentally simulating themselves performing those actions, while instead expected outcomes action. then demonstrate structural emphasis is linked condemnation victimless crimes, distinctive feature conservative morality....
For scientific theories grounded in empirical data, replicability is a core principle, for at least two reasons. First, unless we accept to have rest on the authority of small number researchers, studies should be replicable, sense that its methods and procedure detailed enough someone else conduct same study. Second, results provide solid foundation theorizing, they also most attempts replicating original study produced them would yield similar results. The XPhi Replicability Project...
Philosophers have long debated whether, if determinism is true, we should hold people morally responsible for their actions since in a deterministic universe, are arguably not the ultimate source of nor could they done otherwise initial conditions and laws nature held fixed. To reveal how non-philosophers ordinarily reason about free will, conducted cross-cultural cross-linguistic survey (N = 5,268) spanning twenty countries sixteen languages. Overall, participants tended to ascribe moral...
Abstract Prescriptive rules guide human behavior across various domains of community life, including law, morality, and etiquette. What, specifically, are in the eyes their subjects, i.e., those who expected to abide by them? Over last sixty years, theorists philosophy law have offered a useful framework with which consider this question. Some, following H. L. A. Hart, argue that rule’s text at least sometimes suffices determine whether rule itself covers case. Others, spirit Lon Fuller,...
Background Advance healthcare decision-making presumes that a prior treatment preference expressed with sufficient mental capacity ("T1 preference") should trump contrary after significant cognitive decline ("T2 preference"). This assumption is much debated in normative bioethics, but little known about lay judgments this domain. study investigated participants' which be followed, and whether these differed depending on first-person (deciding for one's future self) versus third-person friend...
Most theorists agree that our social order includes a distinctive legal dimension. A fundamental question is of whether reference to specific phenomena always involves commitment particular moral view. Whereas many philosophers advance the ‘positivist’ claim any correspondence between morality and law just function political circumstance, natural insist intrinsically moral. Each school claims crucial advantage consistency with folk concept. Drawing on notion dual character concepts, we...
Abstract Despite pervasive variation in the content of laws, legal theorists and anthropologists have argued that laws share certain abstract features even speculated law may be a human universal. In present report, we evaluate this thesis through an experiment administered 11 different countries. Are there cross‐cultural principles law? between‐subjects design, participants ( N = 3,054) were asked whether could violate procedural (e.g., applied retrospectively or unintelligible laws), also...
Mind upload, making a digital copy of one's brain, is part the transhumanistic dream eternal life and end suffering. It also perceived as viable route toward artificial general intelligence (AGI). However, AI safety research has alerted to one major risk in creating AGI by mind upload: namely, that upload technology could appeal primarily callous selfish individuals who then abuse this for their personal gain—and, potentially, at considerable cost welfare humankind. Therefore, it important...