neele engelmann
@neeleengelmann.bsky.social
cognitive scientist. postdoc at center for humans and machines, MPI for human development, Berlin. Interested in moral psychology, human-AI interaction, (experimental) philosophy and other things.
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Looking forward to (virtually) presenting this work later today at #CogSci2025!
August 1, 2025 at 7:01 AM
Looking forward to (virtually) presenting this work later today at #CogSci2025!
starting into the week like.... 🪱
June 2, 2025 at 8:36 AM
starting into the week like.... 🪱
the view at the train station when you're apparently the very last person in your town to leave for the holidays 🛴🛴🛴 happy easter!
April 19, 2025 at 6:30 AM
the view at the train station when you're apparently the very last person in your town to leave for the holidays 🛴🛴🛴 happy easter!
possibly the strangest time for a trip to DC, but still very much enjoyed my visit thanks to the excellent symposium on legal interpretation & data organized by @kevintobia.bsky.social & all its participants
March 16, 2025 at 9:16 PM
possibly the strangest time for a trip to DC, but still very much enjoyed my visit thanks to the excellent symposium on legal interpretation & data organized by @kevintobia.bsky.social & all its participants
Just received a new addition to my collection of @alexwiegmann.bsky.social edited volumes 📖🤥 Looking pretty promising if i do say so myself (https://osf.io/preprints/psyarxiv/habrm_v1)
February 17, 2025 at 3:33 PM
Just received a new addition to my collection of @alexwiegmann.bsky.social edited volumes 📖🤥 Looking pretty promising if i do say so myself (https://osf.io/preprints/psyarxiv/habrm_v1)
right before a presentation is the best time to switch to completely new tools!
January 20, 2025 at 1:52 PM
right before a presentation is the best time to switch to completely new tools!
winter wonderland Göttingen!
January 18, 2025 at 10:59 AM
winter wonderland Göttingen!
winter wonderland berlin
January 15, 2025 at 3:17 PM
winter wonderland berlin
On the one hand, people who embrace natural law when asked in the abstract show a stronger relationship between moral & application judgments in concrete cases than those who lean more towards positivism.
October 23, 2024 at 11:10 AM
On the one hand, people who embrace natural law when asked in the abstract show a stronger relationship between moral & application judgments in concrete cases than those who lean more towards positivism.
Participants saw hypothetical legal cases, rated the morality of the statute, and whether the judge should apply it. Somewhat to our own surprise, the relationship between moral evaluation of statutes and agreement to enforcing them was strong and linear.
October 23, 2024 at 11:09 AM
Participants saw hypothetical legal cases, rated the morality of the statute, and whether the judge should apply it. Somewhat to our own surprise, the relationship between moral evaluation of statutes and agreement to enforcing them was strong and linear.
Out now in Cognitive Science: We investigate how people think judges should handle immoral laws. Should judges follow the law no matter what, or can exceptions be made for (grossly) immoral laws? We surveyed 167 laypeople and 141 participants with legal training to find out.
October 23, 2024 at 11:09 AM
Out now in Cognitive Science: We investigate how people think judges should handle immoral laws. Should judges follow the law no matter what, or can exceptions be made for (grossly) immoral laws? We surveyed 167 laypeople and 141 participants with legal training to find out.
Grüße aus fast Kassel von meinem reisenden Fondue 🫕🧀
December 31, 2023 at 1:25 PM
Grüße aus fast Kassel von meinem reisenden Fondue 🫕🧀
three days in beautiful Kraków, thanks to @leopoldhess.bsky.social and iza skoczeń, who organised a great workshop on deceptive speech acts in philosophy and law 🍂
October 9, 2023 at 6:18 AM
three days in beautiful Kraków, thanks to @leopoldhess.bsky.social and iza skoczeń, who organised a great workshop on deceptive speech acts in philosophy and law 🍂
...and it became weaker the more people agreed that reasonable disagreement about the moral issue at hand is possible. (Each dot now represents one evaluated case.)
October 4, 2023 at 3:56 PM
...and it became weaker the more people agreed that reasonable disagreement about the moral issue at hand is possible. (Each dot now represents one evaluated case.)
The relationship was stronger for peope who agreed more with Natural Law Theory (the legal-philosophical view that immoral laws are not valid laws at all). (Each dot represents one participant here.)
October 4, 2023 at 3:56 PM
The relationship was stronger for peope who agreed more with Natural Law Theory (the legal-philosophical view that immoral laws are not valid laws at all). (Each dot represents one participant here.)
Looking at individual response profiles though, some people's responses were also best described by assuming no relation, and some were best fit by a threshold model (but a much less extreme one compared to the idealized model).
October 4, 2023 at 3:55 PM
Looking at individual response profiles though, some people's responses were also best described by assuming no relation, and some were best fit by a threshold model (but a much less extreme one compared to the idealized model).
Across participants, we somewhat surprisingly found most support for C, the strongest influence of morality. People's agreement that laws should be applied increased linearly with a more positive moral evaluation of these laws.
October 4, 2023 at 3:53 PM
Across participants, we somewhat surprisingly found most support for C, the strongest influence of morality. People's agreement that laws should be applied increased linearly with a more positive moral evaluation of these laws.
We had three possible models in mind: A) no relation ("the law is the law"), B) a Radbruch-inspired threshold model ("the law is the law, but..."), and C) a linear relation ("morality first!")
October 4, 2023 at 3:53 PM
We had three possible models in mind: A) no relation ("the law is the law"), B) a Radbruch-inspired threshold model ("the law is the law, but..."), and C) a linear relation ("morality first!")