Society for Philosophy and Psychology

1. New in-press paper on religion's functions, co-authored with amazing lab manager James Nesbit! Full text here, more info in thread below: columbiasamclab.weebly.com/uploads/5/9/....
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📣From Adam Stanaland, Andrea C. Vial & Andrei Cimpian:

Falling in line: Children’s gender conformity after feedback signaling gender atypicality

More hardworking than smart: Nature and origins of stereotypes about children from socioeconomically disadvantaged backgrounds

⭐️From Eddie Brummelman, Aashna Poddar, Lena-Emilia Schenker & Andrei Cimpian

Not yesterday, but maybe tomorrow: Children are more open to possibility in the future than the past Abstract. Previous research finds that children are surprisingly closed to the possibility of unlikely events. Two studies with 5-to-8-year-old children (N

Not yesterday, but maybe tomorrow: Children are more open to possibility in the future than the past

🚨Work by Umang Khan & Christina Starmans

📣Recent work from Kevin Lande & E.J. Green:

Reconsidering the Role of Imagery in Perception

Intertwined Creatures | Columbia University Press In one common view, the mind is immaterial, internal, and invisible. From this perspective, the mind is inherently individual and isolated: It is unknowable ... | CUP

🚨📚By Anthony Chemero:

Intertwined creatures: The embodied cognitive science of self and other

Origins of understanding fair resource collection

⭐️Recent work by Mia Radovanovic, Jaemin Hwang, David M. Sobel & Jessica A. Sommerville

Judgments of responsibility for inequality: A framework and review

🚨From Casey Lewry & Tania Lombrozo

Group membership biases children’s evaluation of evidence - Nature Communications People often form beliefs and reason about evidence as members of social groups. Here, the authors show that group membership biases even young children’s evaluation of evidence, leading them to adopt...

🚨From Joshua Confer, Allison Champ, Dorsa Amir, Hanna Schleihauf & Jan Engelmann:

Group membership biases children’s evaluation of evidence

The spontaneous prioritization of "unfinishedness" in perception: A visual Zeigarnik effect

📣Work from Joan Ongchoco, Kim Wong & Brian Scholl

The Consortium on Moral Decision-Making is pleased to announce its 2026 proposal cycle for interdisciplinary seed grants for morality and ethics research. Check out our call below, and visit our website (from the press release) to learn about eligibility and how to apply.
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Dialogues on Minds, Machines, and AI Dialogues on Minds, Machines, and AI invites readers into a series of thought-provoking debates among three college seniors bound for graduate school: Sue, completing her double major in philosophy an...

📣📚From Rocco Gennaro:

Dialogues on Minds, Machines, and AI

Do older 2-year-olds deploy explicit possibility concepts in action planning? Many studies find that young preschoolers do not deploy logical concepts like or or possibly in the 3- and 4-container tasks. Gautam et al. (2021) rep…

🚨Recent work from Brian Leahy, Michael Huemer, Katie Holmes & Susan Carey:

Do older 2-year-olds deploy explicit possibility concepts in action planning?

Super proud advisor moment: kudos to @jdweng.bsky.social for his first first-author publication! With @minzlicht.bsky.social, we inverted the empathy selection task to look at preferences to receive empathy. We can speculate on what people want from AI, but a motivational account suggests we ask
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Best #CogSci talk I've attended in years.

How should researchers determine if a participant's decision is correct or rational?

Dr. Rumana clarified decades of ongoing debate about theory & methods in @sjdm-tweets.bsky.social @cogscisociety.bsky.social @socphilpsych.bsky.social @philsci.bsky.social

🚨Submissions due Jan 30, 11:59pm ET🚨

Phylogenetic, ontogenetic, and logical critiques of mental state minimalism This commentary critiques recent arguments for mental state minimalism, the view that infants initially understand only behaviours and not mental states. The minimalist evolutionary claim that anim...

📣From Leon Li & Jared Vasil:

Phylogenetic, ontogenetic, and logical critiques of mental state minimalism

‼️Recent work by Julian De Freitas:

AI Companions for Dementia

Representational Momentum Transcends Motion - Dillon Plunkett, Jorge Morales, 2025 To navigate the world, our minds must represent not only how things are now (perception) but also how they are about to be (prediction). However, perception and...

📣From Dillon Plunkett & Jorge Morales:

Representational Momentum Transcends Motion

Learning psychology changes deep-rooted beliefs about the nature of psychological phenomena: Effects on intuitive dualism and beliefs about science Learning about certain disciplines can change students’ way of thinking (e.g., economy students become less cooperative, philosophy students become mo…

Learning psychology changes deep-rooted beliefs about the nature of psychological phenomena: Effects on intuitive dualism and beliefs about science

🚨Work by Francisco Cruz & André Mata

The emergence of political orientation: Authoritarian and social dominance attitudes in early childhood

📣From Michal Reifen-Tagar, Ghadir Zreik, Andrei Cimpian & Sharon Shenhav

Dynamic categorical memory distortion from “visual verbs” We see the world not only in terms of features and objects (such as the color or shape of a ball), but also in terms of a set of abstract “event types…

⭐️From Huichao Ji & Brian Scholl:

Dynamic categorical memory distortion from "visual verbs"

A Children’s Case for Reparations: U.S. Children’s and Adults’ Ideas About Collective Responsibility

‼️Recent work by Pinar Aldan & Yarrow Dunham

Flyer for the Society of Philosophy and Psychology annual meeting, held June 17-20 2026, with submissions due by January 30 2026. The flyer lists keynotes, roundtables, symposia, and preconferences, also listed here: https://socphilpsych.org/meetings.html

Submit your work by January 30 📣
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The 52nd annual meeting of the SPP will be at JHU, June 17-20

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What does it mean to give, receive empathy to and from AI, focusing on robots? Is it ethically wise or worrisome? What can psych, philosophy, engineering learn from each other? A fun motivated empathy collaboration, inspired by long-standing concerns about dismissal of lived experience of AI users

Familiar Magic Helps Children See That Fantastical Events Can Happen in Stories Young children often show a reality bias when thinking about fiction—they say that stories can include realistic events, while rejecting fantastical events. We sought to better understand this bias...

Familiar magic helps children see that fantastical events can happen in stories

📣Recent work by Emily Stonehouse, Terryn Kim, Regan Christensen & Ori Friedman

Becoming Speciesist: How Children and Adults Differ in Valuing Animals by Species and Cognitive Capacity

🚨From Lucius Caviola, Matti Wilks, Claudia Suárez-Yera, Carter Allen, Guy Kahane, Luke McGuire, Nadira Faber, Antonio Rojas-Tejada, María Sánchez-Castelló, Jorge Ordóñez-Carrasco & Paul Bloom