#MPRG #MoralPsychology 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.

#MPRG Amber Chen is doing a #CorpusStudy using word embeddings and frequencies on large cross-temporal corpora. There's lots to unpack, and I want to look at the method more closely, but it's very promising.

#MPRG Era Songzhi Wu on perception of morality of collectives. Ppl are more comfortable attributing agency- to emotion-related mental states. W/ that in ming, can we forgive collectives? Forgiveness modeled as reducing punishment as resp to a "good" apology letter. Ppl are as likely to forgive individuals as groups, but do so more generously for indiv. In all cases, agency-focused does better than emotion-focused letter.

#MPRG Btw, I'm not tooting everything in the data blitz. I'm way too slow for that. I think they'll be online, so check the website: https://sites.google.com/view/mprg/online-events?authuser=0

#MPRG Xavier Roberts-Gaal on Moral decisions under uncertainty: we would expect that under uncertainty, less clear-cut cases would be judged less harshly or positively, but it's not the case. Indeed, ppl seek less information for moral than prudential decisions!

#MPRG Data blitz is a lot of fun. Take Eliana Hadjiandreou on the fact that we underestimate others' prosociality: turns out, the effect is mostly concentrated on outgroups & stigmatized ppl.