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📚By Sandeep Prasada: Conceptual Form: The hidden structure of commonsense concepts
Conceptual Form
In Conceptual Form, Sandeep Prasada develops a new and original approach to the study of commonsense concepts. He argues that lexically expressible concepts ...
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🌟Work from Monika Jotautaitė, Lucius Caviola, David A. Brewster & Thilo Hagendorff: Large language models exhibit speciesist bias against animals
Large language models exhibit speciesist bias against animals - Nature Communications
Large language models detect speciesist statements but often reproduce mainstream moral reasoning that treats harm toward animals as acceptable. Here, the authors demonstrate that they reflect human-l...
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Children’s third-party punishment reveals a genuine concern for fairness and justice 🚨Recent work by Young-eun Lee & Felix Warneken
Children’s Third-Party Punishment Reveals a Genuine Concern for Fairness and Justice - Young-eun Lee, Felix Warneken, 2026
Why do people punish wrongdoers when they are not personally affected? Researchers on costly third-party punishment have long debated whether such behavior refl...
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Occurrent thought and a priori reason in chimpanzees 📣From Robert Lurz
OCCURRENT THOUGHT AND <em>A PRIORI</em> REASON IN CHIMPANZEES | JSTOR
Robert Lurz, OCCURRENT THOUGHT AND <em>A PRIORI</em> REASON IN CHIMPANZEES, Crítica: Revista Hispanoamericana de Filosofía, Vol. 58, No. 172, abril 2026, Thought and Reasoning in Non-Human Animals
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Do young children understand the objectivity of reality? 📣Work by Leon Li, Sebastian Grueneisen, Juliette Chartier & Michael Tomasello
Redirecting
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Facilitatory effects of visual perspective taking level 2 for human and robotic avatars 🚨From Basil Wahn & Leda Berio
Facilitatory effects of visual perspective taking level 2 for human and robotic avatars
Visual perspective taking (VPT) is a crucial component of social cognition: when engaging in activities such as preparing meals together, moving a cou…
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The visual perks of (not) being a wallflower: sociality is a stronger predictor of individual differences in face recognition than childhood experiences ‼️Recent work by Spencer T. Andrews, Maleah J. Carter, Shruti Japee, Chris I. Baker & J. Brendan Ritchie
Redirecting
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Core Intuitions of Psychological Non-Contradiction: Infants Assume That Individual Agents Act and Communicate Coherently ⭐️Recent work by Olivier Mascaro & Ágnes Kovács
Core Intuitions of Psychological Non-Contradiction: Infants Assume That Individual Agents Act and Communicate Coherently
Abstract. Humans generally posit that contrary mental states are unlikely to co-exist within a single mind. We tested the early ontogeny of this assumption in two domains: action and communication. St...
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Direct or indirect realism? Assessing conflicting folk conceptions of vision 📣From Eugen Fischer, Keith Allen & Paul E. Engelhardt
Direct or indirect realism? Assessing conflicting folk conceptions of vision - Synthese
Longstanding philosophical debates about the nature of perception revolve around a clash between Direct Realist and Indirect Realist conceptions of vision. These deny and affirm, respectively, that vi...
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How common depictions of wealth distributions can bias people to underestimate inequality ‼️Recent work by Jonathan E. Bogard, Colin West & Craig R. Fox
How common depictions of wealth distributions can bias people to underestimate inequality - Nature Communications
People hold inaccurate views about economic inequality despite its social and political importance. Here, the authors document two biases in how people interpret information about economic distributio...
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The domino error: A novel mistake in simple physical reasoning 🚨From Brandon Goulding & Ori Friedman
The domino error: A novel mistake in simple physical reasoning - Psychonomic Bulletin & Review
We reveal a novel error in people’s thinking about the physical world: the domino error. Across six preregistered experiments (N = 1,655) we showed adults static pictures of objects that had fallen li...
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1. New paper first-authored by @dymoral.bsky.social in press at Cultural Diversity & Ethnic Minority Psych! We ask how social identity shapes moral cognition. Full text here: columbiasamclab.weebly.com/uploads/5/9/... + summary below: #PsychSciSky #SocialPsyc #DevPsyc @socphilpsych.bsky.social 🧪
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Had so much fun at the Society for Philosophy and Psychology last week! First talk of my life and it was an amazing experience! @socphilpsych.bsky.social #SPP2026
Intent's role in moral responses to White actors' behaviors toward Black and White targets ‼️From Daniel Yonas & Larisa Heiphetz Solomon
Intent’s role in moral responses to White actors’ behaviors toward Black and White targets
Moral philosophy and psychology often emphasize intent’s role in moral evaluations but typically do not incorporate perspectives from the social psychology of intergroup relations. Therefore, curre...
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Adults' perceptions of childhood transgressions: The role of parental status and knowledge of child development 📣Work by Ava Roderick, Yue Guo, Philip Robbins & Nicole Campione-Barr
Adults’ perceptions of childhood transgressions: The role of parental status and knowledge of child development
People tend to perceive moral transgressions as more wrong and punishable than conventional and prudential transgressions, and they judge older children’s transgressions more harshly than younger c...
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The first location heuristic: An early emerging way of judging where things belong 🚨From Terryn Kim & Ori Friedman
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Society for Philosophy and Psychology @socphilpsych.bsky.social at @jhu.edu this weekend. Stanton award winner @levelsof.bsky.social gave an extraordinary address on her work addressing the question: “when does thought begin?” Elegant experiments with deep implications about how the mind might work
For those attending @socphilpsych.bsky.social this week, I will be presenting work which follows up on this paper's findings, asking when children represent age chronologically, in Friday's poster session! Stop by and take a peak at this paper on your travels over :)
Kosta Boskovic@kostaboskovic.bsky.social · 2mo agoNew paper with @drbarner.bsky.social out now in Developmental Psychology! Despite the importance of age in our social world, little is known about how children reason about it. Do children understand age as something distinct from size from an early age? 1/10 psycnet.apa.org/doiLanding?d...
It’s a bird, it’s a plane, it’s…another creative & impactful project from the rocket-fueled @talboger.bsky.social, applying the wickedly cool “visual anagrams” method to animacy! Read the paper in @elife.bsky.social today, then attend his presentation at @socphilpsych.bsky.social later this week. 🦆✈️
tal boger@talboger.bsky.social · 2mo agoDo we perceive animacy itself, beyond its lower-level visual correlates? In @elife.bsky.social, @chazfirestone.bsky.social and I leverage “visual anagrams” — images whose interpretations change with orientation — to suggest the answer is: yes! elifesciences.org/reviewed-pre...
⭐️From Elizabeth Lapidow, Amberley Stein, Giovanni Thomas & Caren Walker: Young Children Use Causal Knowledge to Guide Question Asking
Young children use causal knowledge to guide question asking
Abstract. Question asking is essential for learning in childhood. But options for possible questions are nearly infinite. We investigate whether causal kno
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Encapsulation of the visual perception of social events from semantic priming ‼️Recent work by David Schwitzgebel, Andreas Falck, Jérémy Decroix, Brent Strickland, Liuba Papeo & Eva Wittenberg
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Separating Cognitive Development From Language Development in the Acquisition of Negation Using International Adoption 📣From Annika McDermott-Hinman, Samuel Zimmerman, Jesse Snedeker & Roman Feiman
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Final, fancy, official program available for @socphilpsych.bsky.social SPP 2026!! Can't wait to see everyone in Baltimore!! It's been such a blast organizing this program with the wonderful @joshrottman.bsky.social !!! www.socphilpsych.org/pastprograms...
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Religion's Role in Societal Power: Expanding Perspectives on Religion's Individual, Interpersonal, and Intergroup Functions 📣Work by Larisa Heiphetz Solomon and James Nesbit
Religion's Role in Societal Power: Expanding Perspectives on Religion's Individual, Interpersonal, and Intergroup Functions
Work on the psychology of religion has considered a number of functions that religion may serve, including those at the individual, interpersonal, and intergroup level. The current work argues that i....
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Children's prosocial and selfish rule-breaking following an implicit quid pro quo 🚨Recent work by Leon Li and Sebastian Grueneisen
Redirecting
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Evolution, situationism, and virtue ethics ⭐️From Michael T. Dale and Isaac Wiegman
Evolution, situationism, and virtue ethics - Philosophical Studies
In this paper, we introduce an evolutionary perspective into the virtue ethics-situationism debate. Theories of indirect reciprocity have shown us that cooperation can evolve in populations if individ...
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Reading the room: Children integrate multiple social factors to predict and interpret objects’ locations ‼️From Rob Ethan U. Santiago, Alexis S. Smith-Flores, Madison L. Pesowski & Adena Schachner
Reading the room: Children integrate multiple social factors to predict and interpret objects' locations
Abstract. Adults infer social information from objects' locations by integrating multiple causal factors, which is often challenging for children. To test
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