Nick Byrd · @ByrdNick
930 followers · 575 posts · Server nerdculture.de

"Deontological and absolutist moral dilemma judgments convey self-righteousness" in U.S., German-speaking, and British participants (N = 1254).

In the Journal of Experimental Social Psychology: doi.org/10.1016/j.jesp.2023.10

#processdissociation #decisionscience #psychmethods #moralpsychology #xPhi

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Cillian McHugh · @cillianmchugh
624 followers · 1 posts · Server sciences.social

Switched servers so reposting an introduction

I am a (in @UL ) interested in the cognitive processes underlying our moral judgments. Also interested in and understanding in . advocate and user.

Ouside of work I play including and . I enjoy and (but have been inconsistent of late) and
I also have 2

#moral #psychologist #ecological #psychology #behaviour #context #openscience #rstats #r #music #guitar #harmonica #songwriting #chess #Running #walking #cats #moralpsychology #morality

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Nick Byrd · @ByrdNick
824 followers · 407 posts · Server nerdculture.de

Outstanding !

Trivia reduced ?!

Playing the game with a partner that disagree about improved people's feelings towards the out-party for up to 4 months!
- even one-player versions of the game worked!
- adding *political* trivia questions *helped*!

"As one participant put it, the game... 'gives me further hope that we can work with others no matter what divides us.'"

dash.harvard.edu/handle/1/3737

#dissertation #games #polarization #politics #moralpsychology #cogsci #xPhi

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Nick Byrd · @ByrdNick
824 followers · 387 posts · Server nerdculture.de

Is it wrong to eat meat? End a pregnancy? Buy luxury goods?

A Moral Philosophy course changed students' views about these questions AND the degree to which students reported answering based on "deliberation/analysis" or "intuition/emotion".

But it was reduced reliance on intuition/emotion (not increased reliance on deliberation/analysis) that explained changes in students' ethical views!

doi.org/10.1016/j.cognition.20

#xPhi #psychology #decisionscience #cogsci #highered #ethics #moralpsychology

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Nick Byrd · @ByrdNick
817 followers · 375 posts · Server nerdculture.de

Gender- and country-level differences in the “consequences, norms, generalized inaction” (CNI) battery of moral dilemmas.

That is, there were some differences in the C, N, and I parameters of men and women from Japan, China, and "English" or "Western" contexts (N ≅ 600).

doi.org/10.1007/s12144-023-046

#ethics #moralpsychology #xPhi #demographicdifferences

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Cillian McHugh · @cillianmchugh
637 followers · 172 posts · Server mastodon.ie

3 minute moral psychology survey!

Read about 4 characters, and rate them on 5 dimensions (also some demographic and attention questions).

Go on! You know you want to!

unioflimerick.eu.qualtrics.com

#morality #moralpsychology #research

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Nick Byrd · @ByrdNick
809 followers · 347 posts · Server nerdculture.de

Performance on the cognitive reflection test and base rate neglect tests (Analytic cognitive style) did not significantly predict moral judgments about "disgust-eliciting vignettes" (above and beyond other factors) in about 400 Swedish participants.

diva-portal.org/smash/get/diva

#moralpsychology #dualprocesstheory #xPhi #decisionscience #ethics #moralfoundationstheory

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Nick Byrd · @ByrdNick
809 followers · 347 posts · Server nerdculture.de

"Ecospirituality" was associated with preferring principle/rule-based moral thinking over cost-benefit moral thinking—moreso in two US samples than a similarly sized a Canadian sample (Ns ≅ 475).

doi.org/10.1016/j.jenvp.2023.1

#moralpsychology #religion #environmentalethics #xPhi #philososphy #decisionscience

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Nick Byrd · @ByrdNick
809 followers · 326 posts · Server nerdculture.de

Students' moral judgments of trolley problem decisions seemed to depend not only on the decision (cause some harm or don't), but also the decision-maker (human vs. AI), and the problem type (standard vs. footbridge).

(Ns ≅ 200)

doi.org/10.3390/bs13020181

#ethics #ai #moralpsychology #moraldilemma #xPhi #cogsci #psychology #philosophy

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Cillian McHugh · @cillianmchugh
572 followers · 156 posts · Server mastodon.ie

🚨New paper in
with @MarekMcGann @EricIgou & Elaine Kinsella

In a task, participants were less likely to give reasons while under cognitive load (in 3 out of 4 scenarios).

doi.org/10.1525/collabra.73818

#collabra #moral #dumbfounding #moralpsychology

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Cillian McHugh · @cillianmchugh
572 followers · 156 posts · Server mastodon.ie

🚨New paper in
with @MarekMcGann @EricIgou & Elaine Kinsella

In a task, participants were less likely to give reasons while under cognitive load (in 3 out of 4 scenarios).
(many thanks to @EHS_Research)

doi.org/10.1525/collabra.73818

#collabra #moral #dumbfounding #moralpsychology

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Louis Chartrand · @locha
22 followers · 54 posts · Server fediscience.org

Thought-provoking talk by Tania Lombrozo: Epistemic belief (belief motivated by epistemic reasons) is distinct and has different qualities compared to non-epistemic belief. Feels like opening a new frontier.

#moralpsychology #mprg

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Cillian McHugh · @cillianmchugh
549 followers · 122 posts · Server mastodon.ie

New paper alert:
Evidence for Moral Dumbfounding in 3 previously unstudied populations.

4 years in the works, 3 studies: 2 Masters students projects (Run Zhang & Tanuja Karnatak) and an a collaboration with 2 colleagues in Dubai (Nishtha Lamba & Olga Khokhlova).

Delighted to finally share this!

link.springer.com/article/10.3

@psychology

#psychology #morality #moralpsychology #socpsych

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Dr. Nancy Wayne ✅ · @nancylwayne
768 followers · 2287 posts · Server mastodon.social

What book(s) are you reading between now and New Year's?

I just started "The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided By Politics and Religion" by Jonathan Haidt. Not the kind of book I'd normally choose, but it's for my book club and I nearly always complete the assignment.

#books #bookstadon #booklover #moralpsychology #politics #religion

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Dr Kathryn Francis · @KathrynBFrancis
84 followers · 6 posts · Server mstdn.social

Hi everyone 👋! I've just joined Mastodon.

I'm a lecturer (assistant prof) in psych & my research is in . I use in the lab to simulate various moral/social dilemmas to study moral action. I'm also an experimental philosophy poser doing research on . Mega advocate for ! Looking forward to connecting with the academic community here!

#philosophy #virtualrealitycommunity #psychology #openscience #bioethics #epistemology #morality #xphi #virtualreality #moralpsychology #Introductions #Introduction

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Jonathan Lewis · @jonlewis84
1 followers · 2 posts · Server home.social
Jonathan Lewis · @jonlewis84
39 followers · 3 posts · Server home.social
Nick Byrd · @ByrdNick
629 followers · 131 posts · Server nerdculture.de

More ethics of autonomous vehicles (AVs):
- For "regular-car drivers" "consequentialist" or harm-minimizing was preferred regardless of whether it required swerving or continuing straight.
- For "AV drivers" so-called "utilitarian" or harm-minimization was preferred only if it required action (e.g., swerving).

paper: "automation enhances deontological considerations"

doi.org/10.1016/j.chb.2022.107

#openaccess #selfdriving #ai #ethics #moralpsychology #xPhi #decisionscience #cogsci #technology

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Gregg D Caruso · @greggcaruso
707 followers · 73 posts · Server zirk.us
Nick Byrd · @ByrdNick
607 followers · 113 posts · Server nerdculture.de

So-called utilitarian responses to a were nearly unanimous among younger children (≅6-8 years old)—even for the footbridge variant (N = 127)—but that preference decreased with age—albeit much less so for children with spectrum disorder.

doi.org/10.1007/s10803-022-057

#trolleyproblem #autism #xPhi #ethics #moralpsychology #decisionscience #cogsci #psychiatry #philosophy

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