🚨 New paper out. What is our shared understanding of dignity in community settings? Can ethics and philosophy benefit from evidence about this? This paper relates our recent empirical work to philosophical theory. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Dignity is distinctively concerned with non-humiliation and social equality: integrating philosophical theory with the empirical evidence

Appeals to the value of treating people with dignity are commonplace in certain community settings, especially in health, disability, and aged care. In contrast, dignity has been relatively neglect...

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Jakob @hohwy.bsky.social unravels how we understand the mind, cognition, and existence in "The Self-Evidencing Agent," analyzing how human agents perceive and make sense of the world, decide to act, and act of their own volition: bit.ly/4sXomMq

Large language models can accurately score people’s Big 5 personality traits on the basis of their brief, open-ended narratives. LLM ratings converged with self-reports and predicted daily behaviour & mental health www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Come to Melbourne for the 2025 Conference of the Australasian Society for Philosophy and Psychology Check out the great keynotes - submit your abstract Come join this exciting community of researchers Nov 24-25 - Register now! #philosophy #neuroskyence #philsky sites.google.com/monash.edu/a...

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Australasian Society for Philosophy and Psychology 2025 Conference Melbourne, November 24th - 25th, 2025

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Dignity is a very important ethical concept, but a dangerously fuzzy one, which puts into question whether and how we can honour our obligations to treat people with dignity! Our new study detangles dignity and respect, by showing dignity has specific ties to humiliation.

Dignity Is Distinct From Respect: How Treating Others With Dignity Entails Accounting for Their Self-Conscious Emotions - Milan Andrejević, Jakob Hohwy, Linda Barclay, 2025

Dignity is prominently endorsed in health care, organizations, and law. However, humanities research casts doubt over the utility of this concept, disputing tha...

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What does it mean to treat someone with dignity, as opposed to, say, treating them with respect? This experiment successfully tests the philosophical theory that ties dignity specifically to humiliation. With @andrejevic.bsky.social and Linda Barclay #philosophy journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Dignity Is Distinct From Respect: How Treating Others With Dignity Entails Accounting for Their Self-Conscious Emotions - Milan Andrejević, Jakob Hohwy, Linda Barclay, 2025

Dignity is prominently endorsed in health care, organizations, and law. However, humanities research casts doubt over the utility of this concept, disputing tha...

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A fabulous day of M3CS PhD presentations - Lars Sandved-Smith on pure awareness, @shawnprest.bsky.social on defabrication in meditation, @bethfisher.bsky.social Fisher on optimism and gratitude. All done brilliantly with active inference and FEP modelling. #neuroskyence #philsky

The new Behavioural Sciences and Technology hub at UTS has two fully funded PhD positions available! More information on www.uts.edu.au/about/gradua...

A language analysis of 7 core moral values in 256 societies finds that most of these values are present in most societies, all around the world, with only minor variation across cultural region This is evidence of universality: www.cell.com/heliyon/full...

New preprint: The Late Positive Event-Related Potential Component is Time-Locked to the Decision in Recognition Memory Tasks, by Jie Sun, Adam Osth and yours truly. We took a careful look at the event-related potential (ERP) correlates of recognition memory decisions.

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Abstract submission deadline for the Australasian Mathematical Psychology Conference in Perth in Feb 2024 has been extended to 22nd January ampc.mailchimpsites.com

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FYI: we have just reported in a randomised controlled trial that our 18-month meditation programme can improve the wellbeing of older adults. Congratulation to Marco Schlosser and the Meditageing team, @SilverSanteEU, @MarchantLabUCL, x.com/uclnews/stat...

Ben Cook and I have just published "Can PP explain delusional beliefs?" doi.org/10.1093/schb... (a commentary on Petrovic and Sterzer's "Resolving the Delusion Paradox" doi.org/10.1093/schb... ) Honoured to have been rising star BRH Cook's first co-author, he's one to watch in comp psych!

Synthesising boredom: a predictive processing approach -- Lovely first paper from M3CS's Tom Darling

Synthesising boredom: a predictive processing approach - Synthese

I identify and then aim to resolve a tension between the psychological and existential conceptions of boredom. The dominant view in psychology is that boredom is an emotional state that is adaptive an...

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Pregnancy involves dramatic changes in the body and mind, but we know little about how the self changes, or the cognitive processes underlying this changing self. Check out my new preprint with @rebeccanineill.bsky.social and Sharna Jamadar where we aim to find out: osf.io/preprints/psya… A 🧵

New Minds Matter episode! We speak to Dr. Tarek Amer about his research on memory and aging 🧠Tune in to find out when older adults' 'sticky' memories not only aid in recollection but also enhance creativity 🎨 www.mindsmatterpodcast.com/s3-ep-6-your...

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