This #MemberMonday, check out the outstanding work done by SPSP members @jimaceverett.bsky.social (also an SPSP Board member) and Claudia Manzi on the European Association of Social Psychology's Summer School! Congrats to all the scholars who made this event a success! 📰: ow.ly/SFMW50X73J0

So grateful for the chance to attend the EASP Summer School organized by @jimaceverett.bsky.social. Huge thanks to @jimaceverett.bsky.social and @mgreinecke.bsky.social for your mentorship in the Moral Psych of AI workstream, and to all of the other amazing students I had the chance to learn from!

So grateful for the new research ideas & friendships made at the EASP Summer School at Uni of Kent! Thank you to @jimaceverett.bsky.social & @mgreinecke.bsky.social for being amazing mentors of our Moral Psychology of AI workstream. Here are some pics of us working & exploring Canterbury, England!

The 2025 EASP Summer School at the University of Kent is kicking off in just a few days and we are SO excited to welcome 80 brilliant early-career researchers from across Europe for 10 days of collaboration, community, and cutting-edge social psychology 🙏 Find out more: blogs.kent.ac.uk/easp2025/

New research from MIT found that those who used ChatGPT can’t remember any of the content of their essays. Key takeaway: the product doesn’t suffer, but the process does. And when it comes to essays, the process *is* how they learn. arxiv.org/pdf/2506.088...

Only 10 days left to apply for this phd position on education-based identities, status, and political attitudes! Open to those interested in sociology, social psychology, political science, communication science or indeed a combination of all. jobs.vub.be/job/Elsene-P...

Roses in the garden 😍

There are 2 previous historical cases of countries destroying their science and universities, crippling them for decades: Lysenkoism in the USSR and Nazi Germany. The Trump administration will be the 3rd. It's not just budgets but research, institutions, expertise, and training the next generation.

In Granada and enjoying this beautiful view while working my slides 😍

Is anyone going to SPSP in Chicago and interested in submitting on a symposium about moral psychology and AI? 🤖

Join Prof. Jim Everett (@jimaceverett.bsky.social) exploring cutting-edge questions in AI ethics: 📅 June 2: "Trust in Artificial Moral Advisors" 📅 June 3: "Negative Perceptions of Outsourcing to AI" @universidadgranada.bsky.social | moral sci lab | @cimcyc.bsky.social #AIEthics #MoralPsychology

Every spring, my roses remind me about something important in academia that is easy to forget: the power of perseverance, patience, and the confidence that hard work will pay off in the end .

I love my garden this time of year when all the roses come out 🌹🥰

🚨🚨 NEW PRE-PRINT 🚨🚨 Prominent theories in political psychology argue that threat causes increases in conservatism. Early experimental work supported this idea, but many of these studies were (severely) underpowered, and examined only a few threats and ideological DVs. 1/n osf.io/preprints/ps...

And aside from the ethical risks, we form negative character impressions of those who use AI for such socio-relational tasks! osf.io/preprints/ps...

Sam Biddle@sambiddle.com · last yr.

Using agentic AI so you don't have to think about your child's birthday party or talk to your wife? Now that's Abundance™️

Kudos to the four editors and scores of authors for bringing the Handbook of Social Psychology 6th edition to the public and open access! The other chapters are likely to be my reading project this summer ... Here's my own contribution, in any case. the-hsp.com doi.org/10.70400/ZUT...

🚨 New study reveals that when used to summarize scientific research, generative AI is nearly five times less accurate than humans. Many haven't realized, but Gen AI's accuracy problem is worse than initially thought.

I've posted an advert for PhD scholarship to work with me on moral psychology and AI at the University of Kent 🤖🧠📚 Full details here: www.kent.ac.uk/scholarships...

Understanding Trust in Moral Machines: ERC-Funded Psychology PhD Scholarship

Understanding Trust in Moral Machines: ERC-Funded Psychology PhD Scholarship: The studentship lasts three years and will cover tuition fees at the Home rate (£5,006 per annum) and will additionally pr...

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Is anyone putting together a symposium for #SESP2025 in 🇵🇹 Lisbon? I would like to go, but the symposium-only format is proving difficult. Looking to present grant-funded research on occupational moral roles, which also fits stereotypes, social categories, etc.

What makes people feel entitled to rewards—the effort they put into their work or the outcomes they achieve? Out now in PNAS; with Jin Kim and Jared Wong: Achievement. Effort seems to matter very little (if at all). www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

The AP's use of pronouns in this headline sure is ... something

Very keen to work with potential applicants to come work me at Kent on things related to moral psychology :)

European Commission@ec.europa.eu · last yr.

Choose Science. Choose Europe. A new Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions Postdoctoral Fellowships 2025 call is now open. With a budget of €404.3 million, it will support around 1,650 researchers from Europe and beyond. Apply by 10 September → europa.eu/!fBTMgF

How contemplating art helps us to see the bigger picture www.thetimes.com/article/3829...

How contemplating art helps us to see the bigger picture

Taking time to gaze at beautiful things can enhance abstract thinking and help to subdue the anxieties of everyday life, study suggests

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Why did we become convinced that the answer was always “disruption”, when experience tells us that the achievement of civilisation is the opposite? The move from chaos to organisation. The move from vulnerability to stability. Move carefully and fix things.

Check out our new pre-print on negative perceptions of outsourcing to AI!

Jim AC Everett@jimaceverett.bsky.social · last yr.

🚨New Preprint Alert! 🚨 How do people perceive those who outsource tasks to AI – especially in deeply human domains like relationships? In a new preprint led by my PostDoc Scott Claessens and PhD student Pierce Veitch, we explore this.

🚨New Preprint Alert! 🚨 How do people perceive those who outsource tasks to AI – especially in deeply human domains like relationships? In a new preprint led by my PostDoc Scott Claessens and PhD student Pierce Veitch, we explore this.

Moral conformity in a digital world: Human and nonhuman agents as a source of social pressure for judgments of moral character | PLOS One

Moral conformity in a digital world: Human and nonhuman agents as a source of social pressure for judgments of moral character

Could judgments about others’ moral character be changed under group pressure produced by human and virtual agents? In Study 1 (N = 103), participants first judged targets’ moral character privately…

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Challenging AI-hype with @jimaceverett.bsky.social and charting a more responsible and virtuous course #aiethics

Jim AC Everett@jimaceverett.bsky.social · last yr.

There is a lot of hype about AI and empathy, but what role do we really want AI to play in enhancing empathy? 🤖 Here, Ethan Landes and I argue that AI should only develop human empathy as a tool for moral growth, not replace it 👇 osf.io/preprints/ps... @ethanlandes.bsky.social

There is a lot of hype about AI and empathy, but what role do we really want AI to play in enhancing empathy? 🤖 Here, Ethan Landes and I argue that AI should only develop human empathy as a tool for moral growth, not replace it 👇 osf.io/preprints/ps... @ethanlandes.bsky.social