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Alex Wiegmann @alexwiegmann.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

Join us on Tuesday! ruhr-uni-bochum.zoom-x.de/j/6873663193...

Alex Wiegmann @alexwiegmann.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

Next Tuesday, everyone welcome! Zoom: ruhr-uni-bochum.zoom-x.de/j/6873663193... Meeting-ID: 687 3663 1935 Passwort: 127156

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Alex Wiegmann @alexwiegmann.bsky.social · 19/11/2025

@louisareins.bsky.social and I started this project shortly before my nephew was born - he will start school soon. The drinks were consumed during the revisions. Link to paper (let me know if you don't have access), summary and preprint below. With S. Orr, M. Mizumoto, A. Erut & Q. Li.

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Alex Wiegmann @alexwiegmann.bsky.social · 06/09/2025

The new journal "Experimental Philosophy" is now on BlueSky. @xphijournal.bsky.social bsky.app/profile/xphi... Please share!

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Alex Wiegmann @alexwiegmann.bsky.social · 27/08/2025

Moreover, lie and falsity attributions correlated strongly in our between-subjects design. In a follow-up experiment (in only three countries), we found this strong correlation also with a within-subject design design. Preprint: osf.io/preprints/ps...

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Alex Wiegmann @alexwiegmann.bsky.social · 27/08/2025

In one condition, we asked whether the speaker lied, in another whether what s/he said was true or false. Although DIs can be considered borderline cases (true on the explicit level, false on the implicit level), we found a high degree of similarity between the ten countries.

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Alex Wiegmann @alexwiegmann.bsky.social · 27/08/2025

In our main experiment, we presented participants from ten countries (Chile, China, Germany, Israel, Japan, Mexico, South Africa, Spain, UK, US) with ten cases of deceptive implicatures (DIs). DIs are literally true but can nevertheless trick the hearer into a false belief.

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Alex Wiegmann @alexwiegmann.bsky.social · 31/05/2025

Randomly discovered that I have a signed book by Daniel Dennett 🤯 (the book was left, among others, in the office of a former colleague)

Signed book page by Daniel Dennett. Title of the book: breaking the spell.

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Alex Wiegmann @alexwiegmann.bsky.social · 23/02/2025

Lay people clearly think you can lie with pictures in form of a Content lie and a Target lie, and also tend to agree that deceiving in form of 3. constitutes lying.

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Alex Wiegmann @alexwiegmann.bsky.social · 23/02/2025

Preprint: osf.io/preprints/os... Experimental setting: Two persons communicate via a messenger. A wants to buy a used bike from B and asks whether it is scratch-free. The bike has a scratch. B replies with a picture of the bike.

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Alex Wiegmann @alexwiegmann.bsky.social · 23/02/2025

🚨paper alert🚨 with Emanuel Viebahn Can you lie with pictures? Some (says-based) theories deny this possibility but lay people clearly think you can lie with pictures – and in at least three different ways. Forthcoming in AJP. Short thread with link to paper below.

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Alex Wiegmann @alexwiegmann.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

After more than 80 EXTRA talks, the series comes to an (happy) end this Wednesday 🥲 Everyone welcome, just send me a DM/Email.

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Alex Wiegmann @alexwiegmann.bsky.social · 06/01/2025

Everyone welcome! Just send me a DM or email if you would like to join.

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Alex Wiegmann @alexwiegmann.bsky.social · 16/12/2024

Everyone welcome, just write me a DM or email if you would like to join.

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Alex Wiegmann @alexwiegmann.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

Everyone welcome, send me a DM or email if you would like to join.

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Alex Wiegmann @alexwiegmann.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

Everyone welcome, just write me an email or DM if you want to join!

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Alex Wiegmann @alexwiegmann.bsky.social · 11/11/2024

Wednesday, 13th November, 16:30 – 18:00 (German Time), changed to online only. If you like to join, just send me an email or DM.

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Alex Wiegmann @alexwiegmann.bsky.social · 22/10/2024

Last season of the EXTRA colloquium. Everyone welcome, just send me a DM or email if you want to join.

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Alex Wiegmann @alexwiegmann.bsky.social · 16/04/2024

Happy to announce a new volume in the Bloomsbury series “Advances in Experimental Philosophy”: Lying. It will mainly about (experimental work on) the concept of lying, but also about related concepts and non-conceptual issues. Hopefully out 2024. Table of contents below.

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Alex Wiegmann @alexwiegmann.bsky.social · 03/04/2024

Finally, participants were quite confident in their lie and truth evaluations, and moral evaluations of the cases were also similar between countries. Preprint: osf.io/preprints/ps...

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Alex Wiegmann @alexwiegmann.bsky.social · 03/04/2024

Perhaps surprisingly, lie attributions (r=.93) as well as falsity attributions (r=.91) were quite similar between the ten countries.

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Alex Wiegmann @alexwiegmann.bsky.social · 03/04/2024

As in previous studies, different cases of deceptive implicatures received different lie and truth evaluations. Overall lie attribution was 57%, overall falsity attribution 49%, and lie and falsity attributions correlated strongly (r=.94).

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Alex Wiegmann @alexwiegmann.bsky.social · 03/04/2024

We employed cases of deceptive implicatures (DI), i.e. speaker said something literally true but implicitly communicated something false, and asked participants whether the speaker lied and whether what she said was false (between-subjects).

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Alex Wiegmann @alexwiegmann.bsky.social · 03/04/2024

🚨 Preprint alert 🚨 Big cross-cultural study (10 countries, 6 languages, N=3660) on lie and truth judgments in borderline cases, with @louisareins.bsky.social, Shirly__Orr, Alejandro Erut, Masaharu Mizumoto, and Qilin Li. Short thread below.

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Alex Wiegmann @alexwiegmann.bsky.social · 22/01/2024

Very happy to announce our next EXTRA colloquium: Thomas Schmidt (HU Berlin) Conditional Ought Without Fuss Wednesday, January 24th, 16:30 to 18:00 CET. Everyone welcome, just send me an email/DM for Zoom link.

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Alex Wiegmann @alexwiegmann.bsky.social · 15/01/2024

We are very happy to have @kathrynbfrancis.bsky.social (Keele University) on: VR, images, and chat rooms: Using innovative experimental methods in moral psychology, epistemology, and bioethics. Wednesday, January 17, 16:30 to 18:00 (CET), everyone welcome!

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Alex Wiegmann @alexwiegmann.bsky.social · 21/12/2023

Link to preprint: osf.io/preprints/ps...

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Alex Wiegmann @alexwiegmann.bsky.social · 21/12/2023

In Exp 2 we additionally asked participants to guess how other participants (either R or D) would judge the respective cases. It was found that partisans massively overestimate bias in political opponents (and, to a lesser agree, also in members of their own camp). (4/5)

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Alex Wiegmann @alexwiegmann.bsky.social · 21/12/2023

We found that republican and democrat participants exhibit only a small bias: lie ratings for members of the same party were only slightly lower. Surprisingly, there was no big difference in the degree of bias between clear lies and deceptive implicatures. (3/5)

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Alex Wiegmann @alexwiegmann.bsky.social · 21/12/2023

In Experiment 1 we presented Democrats (D) and Republicans (R) with short stories in which a politician makes a deceiving statement. We manipulated the political party of the speaker (D vs R) and whether the speaker deceived by a clear lie or by a deceptive implicature. (2/5)

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Alex Wiegmann @alexwiegmann.bsky.social · 21/12/2023

New paper (Social Psychological & Personality Science) by @louisareins.bsky.social (did all the heavy lifting) and I on partisan bias in lie judgments. Upshot: Democrats and Republicans exhibit only a small bias but think the other side is massively biased. Short thread and link below. (1/5)

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Alex Wiegmann @alexwiegmann.bsky.social · 21/11/2023

We are very happy to announce our next guest talk by: Francesca Bonalumi (Central European University) about: Moral intuitions about strategic agents on Wednesday, November 22, 16:30 to 18:00 (German time; online+in person). Everyone welcome, just write me an email.

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Alex Wiegmann @alexwiegmann.bsky.social · 13/11/2023

We are very happy to announce another guest talk this week by Izabela Skoczeń (Jagiellonian University) about Lies, Common Ground and the Law on Wednesday, November 15, 16:30 to 18:00 (German time; online only). Everyone welcome!

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Alex Wiegmann @alexwiegmann.bsky.social · 06/11/2023

Very happy having Steffen Koch in our EXTRA colloquium speaking about: Does conceptual engineering change minds? The argument from nameability (Wednesday, November 8, 16:30 to 18:00 CEST). Online & in person, everyone welcome, just write me an email!

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Alex Wiegmann @alexwiegmann.bsky.social · 23/10/2023

This Wednesday in our EXTRA colloquium, (4:30pm CEST) Christoph Lumer (in person & online) will speak on: The Epistemological Theory of Argumentation – Key Ideas and New Developments (abstract in screenshot) Everyone welcome, just send me a DM/email.

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Alex Wiegmann @alexwiegmann.bsky.social · 16/10/2023

Very happy to announce season 12 of our hybrid (online and in person) EXTRA colloquium. Starting Wednesday, 4:30pm CEST with Eva Schmidt on “Stakes and Understanding the Decisions of AI-Systems”. Everyone is welcome, just send me a DM or Email if you want to take part.

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Alex Wiegmann @alexwiegmann.bsky.social · 09/10/2023

The Hannbook of Rationality, previously 180€, is now open access! Hanno Sauer and I contributed a chapter on the rationality and psychology of moral judgments. Link: direct.mit.edu/books/oa-edi...

Cover of the Hannbook of Rationality, previously 180€, is now open access! Hanno Sauer and I contributed a chapter on the rationality and psychology of moral judgments. Link: https://direct.mit.edu/books/oa-edited-volume/5525/The-Handbook-of-Rationality

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Alex Wiegmann @alexwiegmann.bsky.social · 06/10/2023

I review for your journal for free, you earn money with my article - but at least I get the chance to by a poster of my article for just 90$...

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