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Moral decision-making with bounded cognitive resources and limited information

Real-world moral decisions are constrained by limited information and bounded cognitive resources, necessitating heuristic strategies. We argue that choices in moral dilemmas should be analysed in terms of decision strategies rather than ethical theories and show how resource rationality and the bias–variance trade-off explain when people rely on particular strategies.

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Now out in Behavior Research Methods! With @maxmaier.bsky.social & Falk Lieder, we developed the 12-item Decision Process Scale, which measures how much people rely on rules vs. cost-benefit reasoning and intuition vs. deliberation in individual dilemmas. link.springer.com/article/10.3...

The Decision Process Scale (DPS): Self-report measures of reliance on rules, cost–benefit reasoning, intuition, and deliberation in (moral) decision-making - Behavior Research Methods

Understanding how people make decisions in specific situations is a central challenge in (moral) psychology research. Yet there are no existing self-report scales for measuring the process of decision...

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#OpenAccess from @bppjournal.bsky.social - Negative anecdotes reduce policy support: evidence from three experimental studies on communicating policy (in)effectiveness - https://cup.org/4jDoXyD - A.Rodger, G.A.Sanna, @vanessachg.bsky.social, @nicholaraihani.bsky.social & D.Lagnado #FirstView

Now officially out: "Re-evaluating Theory of Mind evaluation in large language models" royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/... (by Hu, Sosa, & me)

Tomer Ullman@tomerullman.bsky.social · last yr.

new preprint on Theory of Mind in LLMs, a topic I know a lot of people care about (I care. I'm part of people): "Re-evaluating Theory of Mind evaluation in large language models" (by Hu* @jennhu.bsky.social , Sosa, and me) link: arxiv.org/pdf/2502.21098

Our new research paper is out in NHB, which we apparently coauthored with acclaimed actor Ryan Reynolds. Critics are calling it his best work since Deadpool.

Nature Human Behaviour@nathumbehav.nature.com · 12mo ago

In this article, Maier et al. show that metacognitive learning from consequences can shape moral decision-making. @maxmaier.bsky.social @vancityreynolds.bsky.social @vanessachg.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Excited to share that this paper is now published in PNAS! (With @maxmaier.bsky.social & Falk Lieder) www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

We updated our preprint on moral decision-making in LLMs (osf.io/preprints/ps...) with a new study investigating sources of the yes-no framing bias and amplified omission bias. Results show that they likely arise from fine-tuning for chatbot applications. (w/ @maxmaier.bsky.social and Falk Lieder)

Suppose Person A orders Person B to hurt you. Then Person B does exactly what she was ordered to do. Who would you see as the main cause of what happened to you - Person A or Person B? Intriguing new work from @vanessachg.bsky.social osf.io/preprints/ps...

We updated our preprint on moral decision-making in LLMs (osf.io/preprints/ps...) with a new study investigating sources of the yes-no framing bias and amplified omission bias. Results show that they likely arise from fine-tuning for chatbot applications. (w/ @maxmaier.bsky.social and Falk Lieder)