Dimensions of wisdom perception across twelve countries on five continents 📣Work from Maksim Rudnev et al.
The authors examine wisdom perception in convenience samples from twelve countries. They observe two latent dimensions that guide participant’s evaluation of wisdom-related characteristics in others a...
📣From Young-eun Lee & Larisa Heiphetz Solomon: Not all punishment is equal: The effect of punishment severity on children's social evaluations
🚨 Recent work from Jonathan Phillips & Angelika Kratzer Decomposing modal thought
Children (and many adults) use perceptual similarity to assess relative impossibility 🌟From Zoe Tipper, Terryn Kim, & Ori Friedman
🚨📖 From Benjamin D. Young: Stinking Philosophy! Smell Perception, Cognition, and Consciousness
The nature of olfaction; its importance for understanding perennial issues of philosophy of mind, perception, and consciousness; and its implications for c
📣From Thalia H. Vrantsidis & Tania Lombrozo: Inside Ockham’s Razor: A Mechanism Driving Preferences for Simpler Explanations
People often prefer simpler explanations, defined as those that posit the presence of fewer causes (e.g., positing the presence of a single cause, Cause A, rather than two causes, Causes B and C, to e...
🚨Recent work by Julian Jara-Ettinger & Paula Rubio-Fernandez: Demonstratives as attention tools: Evidence of mentalistic representations within language
Linguistic communication is an intrinsically social activity that enables us to share thoughts across minds. Many complex social uses of language c...
The biased enforcement of rarely followed rules ‼️ Work from Jordan Wylie, Katlyn Milless, John Sciarappo, & Ana Gantman
We examined whether the enforcement of phantom rules—frequently broken and rarely enforced codified rules—varies by the race of the rule breaker. First, we anal...
📣 From Ned Block: States of Mind
A neuroscientist searches for the seat of consciousness
Why wearing a yellow hat is impossible: Chinese and U.S. children’s possibility judgments ‼️Recent work by Jenny Nissel, Jiaying Xu, Lihanjing Wu, Zachary Bricken, Jennifer M. Clegg, Hui Li, & Jacqueline D. Woolley