The program for the 52nd meeting of the SPP is now available ✨ Taking place at Johns Hopkins University, June 17-20:

SPP 2026 Program

52nd Annual Meeting of the Society for Philosophy and Psychology June 17–20, 2026 Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD DRAFT PROGRAM Details are subject to change Program At-A-Glance Wednesd...

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🚨DEADLINE EXTENDED🚨 The extended submission deadline is January 30, 2026. Submit your work here:

Society for Philosophy and Psychology@socphilpsych.bsky.social · 7mo ago

The 52nd annual meeting of the SPP will be at JHU, June 17-20 📣 Submit your work by January 16! 📣

Happy Thanksgiving, all! www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/mora...

On Thanksgiving, Remember That Truth Is a Uniting Force

It’s easy to feel pessimistic about political conversations. But new research provides room for optimism, showing that striving for true beliefs is valued across partisan lines.

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🚨🚨🚨 Our 52nd Annual Meeting will be held from June 18–20, 2026 at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, MD, with a pre-conference on Mental Control and Agency held at JHU on June 17 🚨🚨🚨 We are currently inviting submissions of papers (talks and posters)!

I'm recruiting a grad student! My lab at NYU (psych dept) studies the computational basis of moral cognition and aims to build AI systems that are aligned with human values. Now admitting a PhD student for Fall 2026. Apps due 12/1. sites.google.com/corp/site/sy...

🚨New Paper!🚨 Do you love authenticity? @ledaberio.bsky.social and I argue that maybe you shouldn't! We think that everything would be better if we all just got over the idea of true selves and were cooler with the fact that we all contain multitudes. link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Challenges to Narrating a Multitudinous Self: Towards a Better Ethics of Code-switching - Topoi

We motivate and lay out the broad contours of a research program, namely that of developing a systematic ethics of code-switching. Such an ethics will articulate the values and norms that should gover...

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🚨New publication in JEP:G!🚨 We find that, even when a belief serves as a marker of ideological identity, people do not think it is good to engage in partisan motivated reasoning. Instead, people endorse the pursuit of accuracy motives even if these lead to adopting outgroup beliefs. bit.ly/498S8Xk

wow this is super neat. vision science is so cool.

Pascal Mamassian@mamassian.bsky.social · 11mo ago

A nice shift in perceived colour between central and peripheral vision. The fixated disc looks purple while the others look blue. The effect presumably comes from the absence of S-cones in the fovea. From Hinnerk Schulz-Hildebrandt: arxiv.org/pdf/2509.115...

Major new paper by finds implicit measures like the IAT are no better than asking people directly about their biases. After decades of avoiding self-reports, turns out our sophisticated replacement tools work no better than what we abandoned. New post!

The Great Implicit Bias Bamboozle

Where were you when you first learned about implicit bias?

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Short videos highlighting the science that is not getting done due to federal science cuts: www.youtube.com/shorts/2J_BW... Share them! (Thanks to Timothy Wilson and his collaborators for making these!)

Preventing Misinformation @science

YouTube video by What We'll Never Know

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Discussions in my Psychology of Ideology class this week on what it would mean to be "non-ideological" have prompted some fun image creation with ChatGPT 😂 (Thanks to readings by @leorzmigrod.bsky.social & @mjbsp.bsky.social for inspiration)

Vassar College is hiring a tenure track assistant professor in cognitive science. vassar.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/Vassar... I'll be at #CogSci2025 - happy to chat about the position and life at Vassar.

Assistant Professor of Cognitive Science, Tenure Track

Department Cognitive Science Vassar College is dedicated to providing equal employment opportunities to all applicants and employees and welcomes applications from individuals of all backgrounds. Deci...

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Attention philosophers, x-philosophers and moral psychologists - I'm hiring! Two, 3-year research fellowships on an interdisciplinary project in the Philosophical Moral Psychology Lab at the Uehiro Institute, Oxford. Pass it on! For more info and to apply: tinyurl.com/mrwwuyaw

a penguin is sticking his head out of a hole next to a job application

ALT: a penguin is sticking his head out of a hole next to a job application

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🥳🥳 New paper in @nathumbehav.nature.com: “When development constricts our moral circle." Contrary to popular belief, younger kids may start out with broader moral circles than older ones. Check it out here 👉 rdcu.be/eoaSe w/ @mattiwilks.bsky.social @karrineldner.bsky.social & Lucius Caviola

When development constricts our moral circle

Nature Human Behaviour - Although many believe our moral circles expand with age, this Perspective discusses an early-emerging tendency to care for others.

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Inspired by research from @mattiwilks.bsky.social @amormino.bsky.social @shawnrhoadsphd.bsky.social @eranhalperin75.bsky.social and others: www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/mora...

The Pope Intuitively Understood Aspects of Moral Psychology

J.D. Vance has promoted a parochial view of moral obligations. Pope Francis provided a corrective that also receives support from psychological science.

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This statement from the NSF is insane. Science is, in essence, designed to separate the true from the false. Understanding how falsehoods spread is key to the scientific endeavor. It is not a violation of free speech to be proven wrong.

A recurring thought over the last few months -- creating something is very hard, and destruction is so much easier.

Honest people don’t lie. Or do they? Liars aren’t honest. Or are they? One puzzling conundrum in contemporary politics is that politicians who seem to be estranged from facts and evidence are nonetheless considered honest by their followers. 1/n

📰 Interview about The Ideological Brain for The New York Times @nytimes.com just released! Really enjoyed this conversation with Matt Richtel about ideologies, neuroscience, and our capacity for change Check it out: www.nytimes.com/2025/04/08/s...

Really proud of this new work out @psychscience.bsky.social. Led by the amazing but bluesky-less Amanda Geiser and with @deborahsmall.bsky.social. We show that when comparing moral wrongs, people are (much) more willing to “scale up” than to “scale down” condemnation and punishment…

uhhhh it looks like Dems just flipped a R+17 Pennsylvania State Senate seat in Amish country…

I'm hiring a lab manager to start this summer/fall, to work on transformative experience, identity change, and empathy in the digital age. Details here: www.crockettlab.org/research-spe... Please share!

The joys of chatting with the Xfinity Virtual Assistant are unparalleled

Here's a post I wrote arguing against bucket lists (I think they are simply not useful, contribute to harmful mass tourism without enriching people's experience, encouraging people to put off goals for play and recreation until retirement. helendecruz.substack.com/p/against-bu...

Against bucket lists

This picture shows a line of climbers attempting to reach the summit of Mount Everest.

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Society for Philosophy and Psychology 2025 (June 19-21, 2025 at Cornell) is going to be 🔥🔥🔥 and the submission portal is now live! Submit abstracts of 750 words+1 figure by Jan 24, 2025 at 11:59pm EST easychair.org/my/conferenc....