Category: Philosophy

Adaptive brain stimulation challenges who is morally responsible when patient and device learn together

A new Neuroethics paper argues that genuinely adaptive brain stimulation may require moral responsibility to...

Teens who read social cues better talked and disclosed more online, 127-person study finds

A study of 127 Canadian adolescents linked stronger nonverbal theory of mind with more online...

Disgust is not one thing: two large Dutch samples support three distinct domains

Across 2,797 Dutch-speaking adults, researchers found that pathogen, sexual and moral disgust behaved as related...

Scarcity may not narrow attention the way a landmark experiment suggested

A reanalysis and new experiment found that influential scarcity effects could be explained by game...

Moral concern followed a similar hierarchy across 41 cultures, but animals and nature divided people most

A study of 6,561 students across 41 cultural groups found broad agreement in moral concern,...

Large AI models reproduced the structure of human moral judgments across 10 ethics cases

Across 16 AI models, all five large systems reproduced the human moral geometry on 10...

Land acknowledgements raised Indigenous awareness but did not shift political attitudes in two experiments

Randomised experiments involving 3,497 non-Indigenous adults in Australia and the United States found that land...

Children accepted caregiver overrules as fair when they clearly protected a child’s welfare

Across three preregistered studies of 413 U.S. children, children preferred autonomy but judged caregiver overrules...

ICU professionals would withdraw life-sustaining treatment for themselves more often than they believed was done for patients

A survey of 743 French hospital professionals found ICU caregivers were more likely to choose...

Kindness may begin with intuition before reason catches up

Young children were more prosocial when making quick decisions, while deliberate prosocial behaviour strengthened with...

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