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Will human-animal chimeras cause moral confusion? Exploring public attitudes

🚨 Work by Katrien Devolder, Joshua Rottman, Qinyu Xiao, Guy Kahane, Lucius Caviola, Lauren Yip & Nadira S. Faber
Will Human-Animal Chimeras Cause Moral Confusion? Exploring Public Attitudes - Journal of Bioethical Inquiry
Recent medical research involving human-monkey chimeras, human brain organoids in rats, and the transplantation of a gene-edited pig heart and gene-edited pig kidneys in living human beings have inten...
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November 18, 2025 at 5:04 AM
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Hiding discrimination in plain sight: The development of reasoning about disparate impact policies

‼️ From Aarthi Popat, Jamie Amemiya, Gail D. Heyman & Caren M. Walker
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November 18, 2025 at 5:01 AM
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📣From Kerem Oktar & Tania Lombrozo:

How Beliefs Persist Amid Controversy: The Paths to Persistence Model
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November 10, 2025 at 4:05 AM
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Challenges to Narrating a Multitudinous Self: Towards a Better Ethics of Code-switching

⭐️Work from Leda Berio & Daniel Kelly
Challenges to Narrating a Multitudinous Self: Towards a Better Ethics of Code-switching - Topoi
We motivate and lay out the broad contours of a research program, namely that of developing a systematic ethics of code-switching. Such an ethics will articulate the values and norms that should gover...
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November 10, 2025 at 4:03 AM
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Cross-national insights into moral expansiveness: Selective valuation of nature versus humans

📣Recent work by Kyle F. Law, Stylianos Syropoulos, Charlie R. Crimston, Ezra Markowitz, Taciano L. Milfont, Scott Claessens, Thanos Kyritsis, Quentin Atkinson, Brock Bastian & Joshua Rottman
Cross-national insights into moral expansiveness: Selective valuation of nature versus humans
Previous evidence from limited U.S. samples has shown that people differ in how they morally prioritize the natural world versus human outgroups. Here…
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November 5, 2025 at 2:09 PM
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🚨From Jay Naborn & Jonathan E. Bogard:

The Pick-the-Winner-Picker Heuristic: Preference for Categorically Correct Forecasts
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November 5, 2025 at 1:58 PM
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How to show that a cruel prank is worse than a war crime: Shifting scales and missing benchmarks in the study of moral judgment

🚨 Work by Vladimir Chituc, M.J. Crockett & Brian Scholl
How to show that a cruel prank is worse than a war crime: Shifting scales and missing benchmarks in the study of moral judgment
Moral judgment is central to both everyday life and cognitive science, but how can it be studied with quantitative precision? By far the most direct a…
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October 31, 2025 at 3:29 AM
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Radical Embodied Relation at any Scale, from Remembering to Navigating

⭐️ From Andrea Hiott
Radical Embodied Relation at any Scale, from Remembering to Navigating - Topoi
Recent developments in the study of the hippocampal formation call old ideas of representation into question and are forcing a change in the way we understand the study of memory and navigation, openi...
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October 31, 2025 at 3:27 AM
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People use norms, values, codification, and enforceability to determine if a rule was broken

📣 Recent work from Jordan Wylie, Dries Bostyn, & Ana Gantman
People Use Norms, Values, Codification, and Enforceability to Determine if a Rule Was Broken
Abstract. Rules are essential for the successful coordination of large-scale societies, with official, codified rules (e.g., laws) proscribing behaviors for everyone in their jurisdiction. These rules...
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October 24, 2025 at 1:24 PM
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Historical and experimental evidence that inherent properties are overweighted in early scientific explanation

🌟From Zachary Horne, Mert Kobaş & Andrei Cimpian
Historical and experimental evidence that inherent properties are overweighted in early scientific explanation | PNAS
Scientific explanation is one of the most sophisticated forms of human reasoning. Nevertheless, here we hypothesize that scientific explanation is ...
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October 10, 2025 at 1:44 PM
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‼️ Recent work by Setayesh Radkani, Joshua Tenenbaum & Rebecca Saxe:

What people learn from punishment: A cognitive model
What people learn from punishment: A cognitive model | PNAS
Authorities, from parents of toddlers to leaders of formal institutions, use punishment to communicate disapproval and enforce social norms. Ideall...
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October 8, 2025 at 5:19 AM
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What predicts girls’ and boys’ political ambition? Evidence from the U.S. and China

📣Work from Rachel A. Leshin, Reut Shachnai, Yuchen Tian, Minghui Wang & Andrei Cimpian
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October 8, 2025 at 5:16 AM
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The moral pull of “women and children”

🚨Work by Anastasiia D. Grigoreva Crean, Stella F. Lourenco & Arber Tasimi
The moral pull of “women and children”
Victimized “women and children” are frequently featured in the media, yet the consequences of this phrase are far from clear. Across six experiments (…
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October 6, 2025 at 12:10 AM
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Somebody Should Do Something: How Anyone Can Help Create Social Change

📚From Michael Brownstein, Alex Madva & Daniel Kelly
Somebody Should Do Something
Changing the world is difficult. One reason is that the most important problems, like climate change, racism, and poverty, are structural. They emerge from o...
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October 6, 2025 at 12:07 AM
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🚨Recent work from Jane Acierno, Clare Kennedy, Fiery Cushman & Jonathan Phillips:

Inverse option generation: Inferences about others' values based on what comes to mind
Inverse option generation: Inferences about others' values based on what comes to mind
Prior research shows that when people try to think of things, such as solutions to a problem, the options that come to mind most often are those that …
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October 2, 2025 at 2:25 PM
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Contrasting guilty minds: Exposure to contrast concepts narrows conceptions of acting knowingly and recklessly

🚨From Christian Mott and Larisa Heiphetz Solomon
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October 2, 2025 at 2:20 PM
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📣Recent work by Emily G. Liquin, Marjorie Rhodes & Todd M. Gureckis:

Seeking new information with old questions: Children and adults reuse and recombine concepts from prior questions
Seeking New Information With Old Questions: Children and Adults Reuse and Recombine Concepts From Prior Questions
Abstract. Question asking is a key tool for learning about the world, especially in childhood. However, formulating good questions is challenging. In any given situation, many questions are possible b...
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October 1, 2025 at 3:15 PM
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🌟From Andrew Shtulman, Lucy Stoll, Lesly Sabroso & Andrew Young:

Children's detection of online misinformation
Children's detection of online misinformation
Adults' ability to detect online misinformation is improved by cognitive reflection and targeted instruction. Is the same true for children, who are a…
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October 1, 2025 at 3:11 PM
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Preschool teachers provide fewer participation opportunities to working-class students than those from more privileged backgrounds

‼️ Recent work by Lewis Doyle, Andrei Cimpian, Louise Goupil & Sébastien Goudeau
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Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), a peer reviewed journal of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) - an authoritative source of high-impact, original research that broadly spans...
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September 27, 2025 at 10:15 PM
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Rethinking category-selectivity in human visual cortex

‼️Recent work by J. Brendan Ritchie, Susan G. Wardle, Maryam Vaziri-Paskham, Dwight J. Kravitz & Chris I. Baker
Rethinking category-selectivity in human visual cortex
A wealth of studies report evidence that occipitotemporal cortex tessellates into ‘category-selective’ brain regions that are apparently specialized for representing ecologically important visual s...
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September 23, 2025 at 2:31 AM
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The Role of Gender Labels and Gendered Appearances in Children's Social Inferences

🚨From Jenna Alton, Andrei Cimpian & Lucas Payne Butler
The role of gender labels and gendered appearances in children's social inferences
Two preregistered studies investigated how children use gender labels and gendered appearances when making inductive inferences about unfamiliar indiv…
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September 23, 2025 at 2:29 AM
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📣From Mitchell Herschbach:

Revising Simulation Theory Beyond Recognition: A Reply to Yousefi Heris (2024)
Revising Simulation Theory Beyond Recognition: A Reply to Yousefi Heris (2024) - Erkenntnis
(Yousefi Heris, Erkenntnis, 2024) offers a version of simulation theory, building on (Goldman, Simulating minds: The philosophy, psychology, and neuroscience of mindreading, Oxford University Press, 2...
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September 16, 2025 at 2:10 PM
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Motivated bias blind spot: people confess to more or less bias depending on its desirability

‼️Work by Francisco Cruz & André Mata
Motivated bias blind spot: people confess to more or less bias depending on its desirability - Mind & Society
Though people readily claim that others fall prey to several biases, they are less likely to recognize those same biases in themselves – a tendency termed bias blind spot (Pronin et al. in Personality...
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September 16, 2025 at 2:07 PM
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🚨From Alessandra Geraci, Luca Surian, Lucia Gabriela Tina & J. Kiley Hamlin:

Human newborns spontaneously attend to prosocial interactions
Human newborns spontaneously attend to prosocial interactions - Nature Communications
Abilities to distinguish between prosocial and antisocial actions are crucial for sustaining cooperative systems. Here, the authors show that human newborns with just 5 days of postnatal experience al...
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September 10, 2025 at 1:00 PM
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Lay perceptions of psychology: the (mis)match between lay beliefs and explanatory stances

📣Work by Francisco Cruz & André Mata
Lay perceptions of psychology: the (mis)match between lay beliefs and explanatory stances
People do not think that all psychological phenomena are equally explainable through science: Psychological phenomena associated with a high first-person subjective experience (henceforth, FPSE; i....
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September 10, 2025 at 12:54 PM