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October 16, 2025 at 3:54 PM
jglavin.bsky.social
New Xphi Study with Matt Rachar just dropped:

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Individual Intentions in Shared Intention*
Abstract. There is disagreement among philosophers about the following claim: when we share an intention to perform some action, we each have an intention
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October 6, 2025 at 7:28 PM
byrdnick.com
Thousands of people in a dozen countries thought reflective reasoning was usually the best way to make a decision in ordinary dilemmas.

Runners up were intuition, friends' advice, and the wisdom of a crowd (in that order).

doi.org/10.1098/rspb...

#cogSci #epistemology #xPhi
About the "everyday dilemmas". Descriptive statistics about the data. The descriptions of intuition, deliberation, friends' advice, and wisdom of a crowd. Results
September 24, 2025 at 12:05 PM
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"We do not assume [system 2 is] always better ...than [system 1], or vice versa, .... Some tasks might be better handled by S1..., especially once the system has acquired enough experience": doi.org/10.1145/3715...

Amen! Long live pragmatism: doi.org/10.48550/arX...

#cogSci #AI #xPhi #epistemology
Fabiano, F., Ganapini, M. B., Loreggia, A., Mattei, N., Murugesan, K., Pallagani, V., Rossi, F., Srivastava, B., & Venable, K. B. (2025). Thinking Fast and Slow in Human and Machine Intelligence. Commun. ACM, 68(8), 72–79. https://doi.org/10.1145/3715709 Byrd, N. (2025). Strategic Reflectivism In Intelligent Systems (No. arXiv:2505.22987). https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2505.22987
September 15, 2025 at 1:28 PM
byrdnick.com
Another reflective thinking prime didn't work:

In two experiments in multiple countries, a brief scientific article describing the benefits of intuitive or reflective thinking didn't impact performance on tests of intuitive and reflective thinking.

doi.org/10.1111/sjop...

#decisionScience #xPhi
The experimental manipulation and survey order The null result The setup of the replication and extension The null result replicated
September 25, 2024 at 4:39 PM
fennert.bsky.social
On my way to Eur Xphi to talk about comparative judgement and ordinary meaning. Full day on the train from Berlin to Zürich, so plenty of time to make some slides.
XPhi Conference Zurich
A three-day conference on experimental philosophy We are excited to host the 3rd European Experimental Philosophy Conference taking place from 14th to 16th September, 2023 at the University of Zurich...
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September 12, 2023 at 7:47 AM
byrdnick.com
"biological explanations...decrease empathy [toward people with mental disorders]." <a href="http://buff.ly/1CqRVb2" class="hover:underline text-blue-600 dark:text-sky-400 no-card-link" target="_blank" rel="noopener" data-link="bsky">http://buff.ly/1CqRVb2 #cogSci #reasoning #ethics #xPhi
November 9, 2024 at 8:44 PM
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"The State of Reproducibility in Experimental #Philosophy" HT: @distributedcog <a href="http://bit.ly/1KXJdXv" class="hover:underline text-blue-600 dark:text-sky-400 no-card-link" target="_blank" rel="noopener" data-link="bsky">http://bit.ly/1KXJdXv #xPhi #psychology #cogSci #replication
November 9, 2024 at 6:07 PM
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“Rationality, reasoning and rules: reflections on Broome’s rationality...”
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#philMind #epistemology #xPhi #psychology
November 9, 2024 at 11:45 AM
byrdnick.com
Psychopathy linked to utilitarian judgments as a function of being less averse to doing harm? <a href="http://bit.ly/1N8whjc" class="hover:underline text-blue-600 dark:text-sky-400 no-card-link" target="_blank" rel="noopener" data-link="bsky">http://bit.ly/1N8whjc #cogSci #xPhi #ethics
November 9, 2024 at 3:58 PM
byrdnick.com
Have you heard about @floridastate's new #XPhi Research Group? https://xphi.philosophy.fsu.edu/

Directors: David Rose, @mbishop61, Jack Justus, Al Mele, John Schwenkler
Affiliates: @wesbuc, John Doris, Josh Knobe, Shaun Nichols, Edouard Machery, Steve Stich, @SomeSentences, John...
November 8, 2024 at 3:37 PM
ethanlandes.bsky.social
A while ago, I watched an xphi project trying to figure out if people thought retweets are endorsements flame out over the course of a year.

The problem: Not only did participants not understand what "is this an endorsement?" meant when paired with a retweet -- neither did the researcher.
December 15, 2024 at 11:29 AM
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"Does Money Make People Right-Wing, Inegalitarian?" (#politics #cogsci #psychology #philosophy #xphi)
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November 10, 2024 at 12:32 PM
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Statistically significant relationship between death row confessions and last meal requests (#psychology #law #xphi) <a href="http://buff.ly/1fQgX60" class="hover:underline text-blue-600 dark:text-sky-400 no-card-link" target="_blank" rel="noopener" data-link="bsky">http://buff.ly/1fQgX60
Death Row Confessions and the Last Meal Test of Innocence
Post hoc analyses of Rector v. Arkansas have regularly hi...
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November 10, 2024 at 12:32 PM
byrdnick.com
"Cognitive Style as Environmentally Sensitive Individual Differences in Cognition" <a href="http://buff.ly/1i3FYd4" class="hover:underline text-blue-600 dark:text-sky-400 no-card-link" target="_blank" rel="noopener" data-link="bsky">http://buff.ly/1i3FYd4 (#cogsci #psychology #xphi)
November 10, 2024 at 4:26 AM
byrdnick.com
Now the #ExperimentalPhilosophy Society session!

@almeida2808.bsky.social presented #xJur data with @lawstuff.bsky.social and Ivar Hannikainen: "Trait #Empathy Predicts Purposivist Rule Application"

Results in image #altText

#openAccess preprint: dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn...

#xPhi #law #textualism
Two samples of participants (N≅500) who responded to 20 to 40 cases indicated that most people had both textualist and purposivist intuitions (about rules or "laws" like "no shooting animals" and "no smartphones in the classroom"). More data indicating that empathy correlated positively with purposive interpretations and negatively with textualist interpretations. Other individual difference constructs that predicted variance in how people apply rules: action aversion, outcome aversion, control aversion, and some Big 5 personality constructs. Implications • People seem to share a single concept of rule that has a dual character in nature. This goes against contemporary worries in jurisprudence that propose purely interpersonal explanations of disagreement in legal interpretation. It also bolds well with recent accounts of philosophical problems, specially Knobe's (forthcoming) • Obama appears to have been right: individual differences in the "breadth of one's empathy" do indeed matter in the application of rules, but much less than whether the rule's text was violated.
January 10, 2025 at 12:34 AM
byrdnick.com
Remember that "...WEIRDest people in the world" paper?

Now #xPhi has one: Of "171 experimental philosophy studies [from] 2017 [to] 2023 [including one of mine] most ...tested only Western populations but generalized beyond them without justification."

doi.org/10.1017/psa....
Hasty Generalizations Are Pervasive in Experimental Philosophy: A Systematic Analysis | Philosophy o...
Hasty Generalizations Are Pervasive in Experimental Philosophy: A Systematic Analysis
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September 13, 2023 at 4:50 PM
oldjerryfodor.bsky.social
People were talking about this a lot earlier today
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xphilosopher.bsky.social Experimental Philosophy @xphilosopher.bsky.social · 5d
There’s growing evidence that something was going seriously wrong in the classic early work on cognitive dissonance

Latest revelation: The story in When Prophecy Fails seems to have been fabricated in the most egregious way

But this is not the only one…

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Debunking “When Prophecy Fails”
In 1954, Dorothy Martin predicted an apocalyptic flood and promised her followers rescue by flying saucers. When neither arrived, she recanted, her group dissolved, and efforts to proselytize ceased....
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November 6, 2025 at 7:37 PM
byrdnick.com
"Can Human Irrationality Be Experimentally Demonstrated?"

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#psychology #philosophy #cogSci #xPhi #epistemology
November 9, 2024 at 10:54 AM
byrdnick.com
"The Effect of Belief in Free Will on Prejudice" PLOS1 <a href="http://buff.ly/1k3RCck" class="hover:underline text-blue-600 dark:text-sky-400 no-card-link" target="_blank" rel="noopener" data-link="bsky">http://buff.ly/1k3RCck (#xphi #psychology #ethics #metaphysics #philosophy #freewill)
The Effect of Belief in Free Will on Prejudice
The current research examined the role of the belief in f...
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November 10, 2024 at 4:26 AM
byrdnick.com
How physical health influences mental and psychiatric health: <a href="http://buff.ly/1iaqnzL" class="hover:underline text-blue-600 dark:text-sky-400 no-card-link" target="_blank" rel="noopener" data-link="bsky">http://buff.ly/1iaqnzL

#biology #pharmacology #medicine #psychology #xPhi
Frontiers | Mind and body: how the health of the body imp...
It has long been established in traditional forms of medi...
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November 10, 2024 at 2:06 AM
byrdnick.com
"The (non)relation between #empathy and #aggression:... a meta-analysis" <a href="http://buff.ly/XVpeDg" class="hover:underline text-blue-600 dark:text-sky-400 no-card-link" target="_blank" rel="noopener" data-link="bsky">http://buff.ly/XVpeDg #cogSci #psychology #ethics #xPhi #philMind
The (non)relation between empathy and aggression: surpris...
Assumptions regarding the importance of empathy are perva...
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November 10, 2024 at 12:15 AM
byrdnick.com
"Development and necessary norms of #reasoning" <a href="http://buff.ly/1nEA7Fb" class="hover:underline text-blue-600 dark:text-sky-400 no-card-link" target="_blank" rel="noopener" data-link="bsky">http://buff.ly/1nEA7Fb #cogSci #psychology #philMind #philosophy #xPhi #metaphilisophy
Frontiers | Development and necessary norms of reasoning
The question of whether reasoning can, or should, be desc...
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November 9, 2024 at 10:41 PM
byrdnick.com
"Mood state moderates the role of serotonin in cognitive #bias" <a href="http://buff.ly/1vplNni" class="hover:underline text-blue-600 dark:text-sky-400 no-card-link" target="_blank" rel="noopener" data-link="bsky">http://buff.ly/1vplNni #cogSci #philosophy #xPhi #ethics #reasoning
November 9, 2024 at 10:19 PM
byrdnick.com
"Better but still biased: Analytic cognitive style and belief bias" <a href="http://bit.ly/1FBByHp" class="hover:underline text-blue-600 dark:text-sky-400 no-card-link" target="_blank" rel="noopener" data-link="bsky">http://bit.ly/1FBByHp #cogSci #psychology #philosophy #xPhi #reasoning
November 9, 2024 at 6:07 PM