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November 7, 2025 at 1:32 AM
oldjerryfodor.bsky.social
People were talking about this a lot earlier today
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xphilosopher.bsky.social Experimental Philosophy @xphilosopher.bsky.social · 6d
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
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#PhilPerception #ExperimentalPhilosophy #XPhi
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
pabloredux.bsky.social
What I was thinking of was the doubtful intentions of the reader, in fact of anyone involved, including me.

But bsky just happened to feed me something on the normative function of intentional action bsky.app/profile/xphi... which made me also look at this nonsite.org/produced-and...
September 29, 2025 at 7:29 PM
existwell.bsky.social
We conclude by reiterating our appreciation for the topic Feltz & Cokely have raised. We find it frankly bizarre that it isn't more discussed! They have done great empirical work and nice review of parts of the xphi lit. We view the implications discussion as an important one-
September 29, 2025 at 4:43 PM
existwell.bsky.social
Feltz & Cokely conducted many of these studies themselves, but cite many others. They review work by Josh Knobe @xphilosopher.bsky.social,
Fiery Cushman (@fierycushman.bsky.social), and others in #xphi. The book is a great review of a lot of good work in experimental philosophy (#xphi).
September 29, 2025 at 4:41 PM
byrdnick.com
How can #AI and #cognitiveScience improve #healthcare?

We got some answers from the #NudgesInHealthcare Symposium at #UPenn.

Check out this summary of some themes in the write-up below:

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#medicine #psych #econ #compSci #tech #LLM #edu #bioethics #xPhi
A poster presentation at UPenn with Nick Byrd and a poster about antibiotic resistance in the foreground. Ashley West, PhD, Director of Behavioral Design at Lirio (left), discusses her poster, “Designing an ‘At Home’ Digital Health Intervention for Supporting Chronic Condition Lifestyle Management,” with LDI Senior Fellow Renée Betancourt, MD, an Associate Professor of Clinical Family Medicine and Community Health at the Perelman School of Medicine. A panel discussion featuring Adam Rodman, Carissa Kathuria, Craig Joseph, and Kenrick Caito, moderated by Sri Adusimalli. A panel discussion featuring Kim Waddell, Meeta Kerlin, Zahera Farhan, Sunita Desai, and Hayley Belli.
September 25, 2025 at 1:32 PM
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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).

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#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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Might the concept of "good judgment" vary by framing or social roles?

Five studies of four nations (🇺🇸🇨🇦🇬🇧🇨🇳) found some words and roles were more associated with "rational" than "reasonable" (and vice versa).

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#CogSci #xPhi #linguistics #dataViz
Descriptive statistics about the samples "Figure 1. Top ten most frequent co-occurrence of Adjectives with ‘rational’ (blue) and ‘reasonable’ (orange) when asked to describe most important characteristics of a person showing sound judgment (Study 1a) / good judgment in a challenging situation (Study 1b). Adjectives are ordered from those most associated with ‘rational’ to those with ‘reasonable.’ Dumbbell nodes represent the percentage of each adjective’s co-occurrence relative to the sum of independent occurrences of each pair of terms." "Figure 2. Qualities attributed to rational and reasonable persons in Study 1. Color-coded adjectives reflect Analytical, Moral, and Inner Fortitude items (Study 1a)/Agency and Communion factors (Study 1b). Top panels: Estimates from linear mixed model with responses to all characteristics nested in participants, with target order (rational vs. reasonable) as a covariate and false discovery rate correction for multiple testing. Dashed vertical line delineates effects 1 unit above midpoint of the 1–7 scale in Study 1a / half a unit above the midpoint of the 1–5 scale in Study 1b. Bottom panels: Pearson’s correlations and 95% CIs of average scores across items making up each factor. ***p < .001, **p < .01, *p < .05." "Figure 3. Top Panel: Preference proportions for reasonable vs. rational agents in social roles. Displays proportions (with 95% CI) derived from logits in generalized mixed models. The dashed line at .50 indicates parity; above this, preference leans towards reasonable agents, and below, towards rational agents. Bottom Panel: Necessity ratings for rationality and reasonableness by role (1–5 rating scale). Shows estimated means and 95% CI. Ratings indicate moderate to high necessity (3–4) for both rationality and reasonableness across rule-based (on the right) and holistic roles (on the left)."
September 22, 2025 at 10:25 AM
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Remember the viral studies inferring some people are less likely to think visually?

Well some DECISIONS are also less likely to involve #visualation — e.g., #finance versus #recreation: doi.org/10.1080/2044...

And visual vividness predicted #risk taking: doi.org/10.1016/j.co...

#cogSci #xPhi #edu
Financial decisions were about 4 times more likely to involve analytic reasoning (45%) than visual imagery (12%). Recreational decisions were about 3 times more likely to involve visual imagery (31%) than analytic reasoning (12%). Mental imagery was similarly easy to generate and it was similarly vivid across financial and recreational decisions. The vividness of imagery during decision-making predicts risk-taking. Conclusions • Mental imagery seems to be a distinct decision-making mode that complements other established modes (calculation, affect, recognition). • Its application is context-dependent: Recreational decisions (experiential, concrete) - imagery use is more tural, images are more vivid, and their valence stronger predicts risk-taking willingness. • Financial decisions (abstract, analytical) - imagery use is less frequent and less influential; calculation seem to dominate. • Implication: Decision-making frameworks should include imagery-based processing as a mode that bridges cognition and emotion, particularly in experiential domains.
September 19, 2025 at 3:55 PM
byrdnick.com
Can #AI chatbots handle student discussion better than teachers?

In a controlled study of 83 Chinese adolescents, dialogue with a #generativeAI resulted in more learning than dialogue with a human teacher.

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#edu #LLM #tech #teaching #policy #CogSci #xPhi
The experimental design with images of the students using generative AI chatbots in each phase of learning. Examples of the chatbot prompts and responses. The test of learning and self-reported reflective thinking scale. Effects of chatbot (vs. teacher) facilitated dialogue on learning — the chatbot dialogue usually produced more learning.
September 17, 2025 at 10:45 AM
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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
ethanlandes.bsky.social
Very, very, very excited that xPhi is getting a dedicated OA journal
alexwiegmann.bsky.social Alex Wiegmann @alexwiegmann.bsky.social · Sep 6
The new journal "Experimental Philosophy" is now on BlueSky.

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September 6, 2025 at 2:42 PM
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The new journal "Experimental Philosophy" is now on BlueSky.

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September 6, 2025 at 2:26 PM
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Our article is online: The Moral Justifications of Disability Discrimination in Health Care Allocation: An Experimental Assessment #bioethics #xphi #experimentalphilosophy

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August 29, 2025 at 5:51 AM
ethanlandes.bsky.social
New experimental conceptual engineering paper!

Does the name you give to novel ideas affect people's understanding of those ideas? Yes, but only certain kinds of names and less so when the idea is explicitly defined.

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August 21, 2025 at 10:37 AM
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I just found out that this paper, co-authored with James R. Beebe, is now out and freely available at Philosophy of Science. #philsky #philsci #xphi

https://doi.org/10.1017/psa.2025.10092

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August 20, 2025 at 6:02 PM
dellsen.bsky.social
I just found out that this paper, co-authored with James R. Beebe, is now out and freely available at Philosophy of Science. #philsky #philsci #xphi

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The Centrality of Progressive Realism to the Scientific Realism Debate | Philosophy of Science | Cambridge Core
The Centrality of Progressive Realism to the Scientific Realism Debate
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August 20, 2025 at 5:39 PM
cmlittlejohn.bsky.social
The nice thing about Southerners treating "fixin' to" as equivalent to "intends to" is that there's no such thing as doing something fixin'ly. Maybe Southerners are less primed to expect some link between a state (fixin' to, intending to) and a doing that's modified adverbially. Xphi investigate plz
August 19, 2025 at 10:24 PM
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dev.dfaria.eu: Someone did #Xphi (experimental philosophy) work o

Someone did #Xphi (experimental philosophy) work on the biomedical ethical "intuitions" of open source LLM models, showing that irrelevant demographic details can nudge models to make more utilitarian vs autonomy-based judgem...
August 15, 2025 at 6:02 AM
byrdnick.com
How do #AI systems’ decisions about #economics and morality differ from humans’?

Some #language models “show excessive cooperation and limited incentive sensitivity, while #reasoning models …align more… with payoff-maximizing strategies.”

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#xPhi #tech
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August 8, 2025 at 10:47 AM
mattlindauer.bsky.social
understand them, or claiming that xphi is bad psychology when xphi papers are regularly published and cited in the best psych journals), you’d seem like a complete dinosaur.

Again, this is all to be distinguished from genuine disagreement about methods, what we can /8
July 28, 2025 at 4:01 PM
mattlindauer.bsky.social
weren’t so committed to that standard. I even remember a couple of these people taking glee in trying to vote multiple times in Brian Leiter’s poll on xphi. But even then, the people who seemed to be most productive in philosophy, with some exceptions, often didn’t have that outright /5
July 28, 2025 at 4:01 PM
byrdnick.com
Do reflection tests impact philosophical thinking?

I found 10 #nullResults of taking reflection tests before (vs. after) making decisions about #philosophy: doi.org/10.31234/osf...

Since Analysis accepted that paper, #xPhi got another null #replication: doi.org/10.1111/mila...
Byrd, N. (2025). Reflection-Philosophy Order Effects and Correlations Across Samples. Analysis. https://doi.org/10.1093/analys/anaf015 Byrd, N. (2025). Reflection-Philosophy Order Effects and Correlations Across Samples. Analysis. https://doi.org/10.1093/analys/anaf015 Maćkiewicz, B., Kuś, K., Zaręba, M., & Paprzycka-Hausman, K. (2025). Does reflection reduce the epistemic side-effect effect? A new challenge to error accounts. Mind & Language. https://doi.org/10.1111/mila.12558 Maćkiewicz, B., Kuś, K., Zaręba, M., & Paprzycka-Hausman, K. (2025). Does reflection reduce the epistemic side-effect effect? A new challenge to error accounts. Mind & Language. https://doi.org/10.1111/mila.12558
July 19, 2025 at 2:19 PM