A5024663213- Psychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment
- Social and Intergroup Psychology
- Ethics in Business and Education
- Experimental Behavioral Economics Studies
- Cultural Differences and Values
- Emotions and Moral Behavior
- Evolutionary Game Theory and Cooperation
- Free Will and Agency
- Ethics in medical practice
- Psychology of Social Influence
- Death Anxiety and Social Exclusion
- Ethics and Social Impacts of AI
- Decision-Making and Behavioral Economics
- Religion and Society Interactions
- Culture, Economy, and Development Studies
- Neuroethics, Human Enhancement, Biomedical Innovations
- Technology Use by Older Adults
- Psychological Well-being and Life Satisfaction
- Animal and Plant Science Education
- Misinformation and Its Impacts
- Health Systems, Economic Evaluations, Quality of Life
- Human-Animal Interaction Studies
- Evolutionary Psychology and Human Behavior
- Psychosomatic Disorders and Their Treatments
- Eating Disorders and Behaviors
University of Oxford
2013-2024
University of Kent
2017-2024
University of Pennsylvania
2023
University of British Columbia
2023
Leiden University
2018-2022
Wellcome Centre for Ethics and Humanities
2014-2021
University of Tasmania
2020
Harvard University
2017-2018
Yale University
2016-2017
Harvard University Press
2016
Recent years have seen a surge in psychological research on the relationship between political ideology (particularly conservatism) and cognition, affect, behaviour, even biology. Despite this flurry of investigation, however, there is as yet no accepted, validated, widely used multi-item scale conservatism that concise, modern its conceptualisation, includes both social economic subscales. In paper 12-Item Social Economic Conservatism Scale (SECS) proposed validated to help fill gap. The...
A growing body of research has focused on so-called 'utilitarian' judgments in moral dilemmas which participants have to choose whether sacrifice one person order save the lives a greater number. However, relation between such and genuine utilitarian impartial concern for good remains unclear. Across four studies, we investigated relationship judgment sacrificial range traits, attitudes, behaviors that either reflect or reject an all. In Study 1, found rates were associated with broadly...
We introduce and investigate the philosophical concept of 'speciesism' -the assignment different moral worth based on species membership -as a psychological construct. In five studies, using both general population samples online student samples, we show that speciesism is measurable, stable construct with high interpersonal differences, goes along cluster other forms prejudice, able to predict real-world decision-making behavior. Study 1 present development empirical validation...
Moral judgments play a critical role in motivating and enforcing human cooperation, research on the proximate mechanisms of moral highlights importance intuitive, automatic processes forming such judgments. Intuitive often share characteristics with deontological theories normative ethics, which argue that certain acts (such as killing) are absolutely wrong, regardless their consequences. Why do intuitions typically follow prescriptions, opposed to those other ethical theories? Here, we test...
With the COVID-19 pandemic threatening millions of lives, changing our behaviors to prevent spread disease is a moral imperative. Here, we investigated persuasiveness messages inspired by three major traditions. A sample US participants representative for age, sex and race/ethnicity (N=1032) viewed from either leader or citizen containing deontological, virtue-based, utilitarian, non-moral justifications adopting social distancing during pandemic. We measured messages’ effects on...
Abstract Generative artificial intelligence (AI) has the potential to both exacerbate and ameliorate existing socioeconomic inequalities. In this article, we provide a state-of-the-art interdisciplinary overview of impacts generative AI on (mis)information three information-intensive domains: work, education, healthcare. Our goal is highlight how could worsen inequalities while illuminating may help mitigate pervasive social problems. information domain, can democratize content creation...
Previous work has demonstrated that people are more likely to trust "deontological" agents who reject harming one person save many others than "consequentialist" endorse such instrumental harms, which could explain the higher prevalence of non-consequentialist moral intuitions. Yet consequentialism involves endorsing not just harm, but also impartial beneficence, treating well-being every individual as equally important. In four studies (total N = 2086), we investigated preferences for...
OPINION article Front. Psychol., 06 August 2015Sec. Personality and Social Psychology Volume 6 - 2015 | https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2015.01152
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...
Zhong and Liljenquist (2006) reported evidence of a "Macbeth Effect" in social psychology: threat to people's moral purity leads them seek, literally, cleanse themselves. In an attempt build upon these findings, we conducted series direct replications Study 2 from Z&L's seminal report. We used original materials methods, investigated samples that were more representative the general population, different countries cultures, substantially increased power our statistical tests. Despite...
Abstract We explore whether the known preference for default options in choice contexts—default effects—occur altruistic contexts and extent to which this can be explained through appeal social norms. In four experiments, we found that (i) participants were more likely donate money charity when was option an context; (ii) perceived socially normative option; (iii) perceptions of norms mediated relationship between status charitable donations; (iv) a transfer effect, whereby translated they...
Abstract We describe the “evaluability bias”: tendency to weight importance of an attribute in proportion its ease evaluation. propose that evaluability bias influences decision making context charitable giving: people tend have a strong preference for charities with low overhead ratios (lower administrative expenses) but not high cost-effectiveness (greater number saved lives per dollar), because former is easier evaluate than latter. In line this hypothesis, we report results four studies...
In fourteen studies, we tested whether political conservatives' stronger free will beliefs were linked to and broader tendencies moralize, thus a greater motivation assign blame.In Study 1 (meta-analysis of five n=308,499) show that conservatives have moralize than liberals, even for moralization measures containing zero content (e.g., moral badness ratings faces personality traits).In 2, report higher belief, this is statistically mediated by the belief people should be held morally...
Generative artificial intelligence, including chatbots like ChatGPT, has the potential to both exacerbate and ameliorate existing socioeconomic inequalities. In this article, we provide a state-of-the-art interdisciplinary overview of probable impacts generative AI on four critical domains: work, education, health, information. Our goal is warn about how could worsen inequalities while illuminating directions for using resolve pervasive social problems. in workplace can boost productivity...
Abstract Given the prominence of M uslim veils—in particular hijab and full‐face veil—in public discourse concerning place uslims in W estern society, we examined their impact on non‐ uslims’ responses at both explicit implicit levels. Results revealed that were more negative toward any veil compared with no veil, relative to hijab: for emotions felt veiled women (Study 1), non‐affective attitudinal 2), attitudes through response latency measures (Studies 3a 3b). Finally, manipulated...