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Jim AC Everett

@jimaceverett.bsky.social
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Moral psychologist working on AI, utilitarianism, person perception, politics, and whatever else takes my fancy. 🇬🇧🏳️‍🌈

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Jim AC Everett @jimaceverett.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Fantastic opportunity - I was so impressed with how warm and friendly the department at Leiden was as a PostDoc, and the city/quality of life is exceptional. Highly recommend!
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Jim AC Everett @jimaceverett.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
A senior academic recently told me “I’m not sure what you contribute here”. In my latest “Moral Garden” Substack I think about metrics, institutional precarity, and whether the things we focus on in academia matter at all. Also, of course, gardening. themoralgarden.substack.com/p/what-do-yo...
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What do you actually contribute?
On academic value, the things we count, and what might actually matter
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Society for Personality and Social Psychology @spspnews.bsky.social · 07/10/2025
This #MemberMonday, check out the outstanding work done by SPSP members @jimaceverett.bsky.social (also an SPSP Board member) and Claudia Manzi on the European Association of Social Psychology's Summer School! Congrats to all the scholars who made this event a success! 📰: ow.ly/SFMW50X73J0
A group of psychology researchers take a picture while participating in the European Association of Social Psychology's Summer School.
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Josh Wenger @jdweng.bsky.social · 01/08/2025
So grateful for the chance to attend the EASP Summer School organized by @jimaceverett.bsky.social. Huge thanks to @jimaceverett.bsky.social and @mgreinecke.bsky.social for your mentorship in the Moral Psych of AI workstream, and to all of the other amazing students I had the chance to learn from!
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Madhulika Shastry @mshastry.bsky.social · 31/07/2025
So grateful for the new research ideas & friendships made at the EASP Summer School at Uni of Kent! Thank you to @jimaceverett.bsky.social & @mgreinecke.bsky.social for being amazing mentors of our Moral Psychology of AI workstream. Here are some pics of us working & exploring Canterbury, England!
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Jim AC Everett @jimaceverett.bsky.social · 17/07/2025
The 2025 EASP Summer School at the University of Kent is kicking off in just a few days and we are SO excited to welcome 80 brilliant early-career researchers from across Europe for 10 days of collaboration, community, and cutting-edge social psychology 🙏 Find out more: blogs.kent.ac.uk/easp2025/
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Bradley Busch @handle.invalid · 18/06/2025
New research from MIT found that those who used ChatGPT can’t remember any of the content of their essays. Key takeaway: the product doesn’t suffer, but the process does. And when it comes to essays, the process *is* how they learn. arxiv.org/pdf/2506.088...
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Toon Kuppens @tkupp.bsky.social · 13/06/2025
Only 10 days left to apply for this phd position on education-based identities, status, and political attitudes! Open to those interested in sociology, social psychology, political science, communication science or indeed a combination of all. jobs.vub.be/job/Elsene-P...
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PhD Researcher - Scientific project on Education-based social identities
PhD Researcher - Scientific project on Education-based social identities
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Jim AC Everett @jimaceverett.bsky.social · 13/06/2025
Roses in the garden 😍
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Peter Gleick @petergleick.bsky.social · 31/05/2025
There are 2 previous historical cases of countries destroying their science and universities, crippling them for decades: Lysenkoism in the USSR and Nazi Germany. The Trump administration will be the 3rd. It's not just budgets but research, institutions, expertise, and training the next generation.
Graphs showing 25 years of budgets for the National Institute of Health, NASA, and the NSF. In all cases, the proposed budget for next year is far, far below any year of the previous quarter century.
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Jim AC Everett @jimaceverett.bsky.social · 30/05/2025
In Granada and enjoying this beautiful view while working my slides 😍
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Jim AC Everett @jimaceverett.bsky.social · 28/05/2025
Is anyone going to SPSP in Chicago and interested in submitting on a symposium about moral psychology and AI? 🤖
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Aníbal M. Astobiza @anibalmastobiza.bsky.social · 26/05/2025
Join Prof. Jim Everett (@jimaceverett.bsky.social) exploring cutting-edge questions in AI ethics: 📅 June 2: "Trust in Artificial Moral Advisors" 📅 June 3: "Negative Perceptions of Outsourcing to AI" @universidadgranada.bsky.social | moral sci lab | @cimcyc.bsky.social #AIEthics #MoralPsychology
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Jim AC Everett @jimaceverett.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
Every spring, my roses remind me about something important in academia that is easy to forget: the power of perseverance, patience, and the confidence that hard work will pay off in the end .
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Jim AC Everett @jimaceverett.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
I love my garden this time of year when all the roses come out 🌹🥰
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Abby Cassario @abbycassario.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
🚨🚨 NEW PRE-PRINT 🚨🚨 Prominent theories in political psychology argue that threat causes increases in conservatism. Early experimental work supported this idea, but many of these studies were (severely) underpowered, and examined only a few threats and ideological DVs. 1/n osf.io/preprints/ps...
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Jim AC Everett @jimaceverett.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
And aside from the ethical risks, we form negative character impressions of those who use AI for such socio-relational tasks! osf.io/preprints/ps...
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Roger Giner-Sorolla @rogerthegs.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
Kudos to the four editors and scores of authors for bringing the Handbook of Social Psychology 6th edition to the public and open access! The other chapters are likely to be my reading project this summer ... Here's my own contribution, in any case. the-hsp.com doi.org/10.70400/ZUT...
Changing Practices and Priorities in Social Psychological Research Methods and Reporting
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Luiza Jarovsky, PhD @luizajarovsky.bsky.social · 19/05/2025
🚨 New study reveals that when used to summarize scientific research, generative AI is nearly five times less accurate than humans. Many haven't realized, but Gen AI's accuracy problem is worse than initially thought.
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Jim AC Everett @jimaceverett.bsky.social · 19/05/2025
I've posted an advert for PhD scholarship to work with me on moral psychology and AI at the University of Kent 🤖🧠📚 Full details here: www.kent.ac.uk/scholarships...
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Understanding Trust in Moral Machines: ERC-Funded Psychology PhD Scholarship
Understanding Trust in Moral Machines: ERC-Funded Psychology PhD Scholarship: The studentship lasts three years and will cover tuition fees at the Home rate (£5,006 per annum) and will additionally pr...
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Roger Giner-Sorolla @rogerthegs.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
Is anyone putting together a symposium for #SESP2025 in 🇵🇹 Lisbon? I would like to go, but the symposium-only format is proving difficult. Looking to present grant-funded research on occupational moral roles, which also fits stereotypes, social categories, etc.
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Corey Cusimano @cusimano.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
What makes people feel entitled to rewards—the effort they put into their work or the outcomes they achieve? Out now in PNAS; with Jin Kim and Jared Wong: Achievement. Effort seems to matter very little (if at all). www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
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Ethan Landes @ethanlandes.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
The AP's use of pronouns in this headline sure is ... something
AP headline: "He was killed in a road rage shooting. AI allowed him to deliver his own victim impact statement"
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Jim AC Everett @jimaceverett.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
Very keen to work with potential applicants to come work me at Kent on things related to moral psychology :)
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Simone Schnall, Ph.D. @simoneschnall.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
How contemplating art helps us to see the bigger picture www.thetimes.com/article/3829...
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How contemplating art helps us to see the bigger picture
Taking time to gaze at beautiful things can enhance abstract thinking and help to subdue the anxieties of everyday life, study suggests
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Joel Morris @gralefrit.bsky.social · 04/05/2025
Why did we become convinced that the answer was always “disruption”, when experience tells us that the achievement of civilisation is the opposite? The move from chaos to organisation. The move from vulnerability to stability. Move carefully and fix things.
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Scott Claessens @scottclaessens.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
Check out our new pre-print on negative perceptions of outsourcing to AI!
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Jim AC Everett @jimaceverett.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
🚨New Preprint Alert! 🚨 How do people perceive those who outsource tasks to AI – especially in deeply human domains like relationships? In a new preprint led by my PostDoc Scott Claessens and PhD student Pierce Veitch, we explore this.
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Brian D. Earp, PhD @briandavidearp.bsky.social · 26/04/2025
Moral conformity in a digital world: Human and nonhuman agents as a source of social pressure for judgments of moral character | PLOS One
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Moral conformity in a digital world: Human and nonhuman agents as a source of social pressure for judgments of moral character
Could judgments about others’ moral character be changed under group pressure produced by human and virtual agents? In Study 1 (N = 103), participants first judged targets’ moral character privately…
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Ethan Landes @ethanlandes.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
Challenging AI-hype with @jimaceverett.bsky.social and charting a more responsible and virtuous course #aiethics
The ethical problem with focusing on AI as a tool of “empathizing” is in how it cheapens empathy. Empathy is no longer a fundamentally human virtue and way of connecting with others. Empathy is reduced to nothing more than a means to an end. Empathy is a design problem to solve. Many people are lonely, so AI can keep them company. Doctors are not always the best at bedside manner, so AI can replace them to better comfort humans. Training HR caseworkers is expensive and time-consuming, so AI can take over some of the workload. Empathy is a way of mollifying customers, creating the perception of friendship, or removing the need for genuine human-to-human connections in trying times. Empathy is a commodity to be purchased from tech companies, one API credit at a time.
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Jim AC Everett @jimaceverett.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
There is a lot of hype about AI and empathy, but what role do we really want AI to play in enhancing empathy? 🤖 Here, Ethan Landes and I argue that AI should only develop human empathy as a tool for moral growth, not replace it 👇 osf.io/preprints/ps... @ethanlandes.bsky.social
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madeline g. reinecke @mgreinecke.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
Really excited to hear about this work; come by @uehiro.ox.ac.uk this afternoon if you're able! 🤖 #AI #ethics
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joannad-c.bsky.social @joannad-c.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
Super excited for our lab @philmoralpsych.bsky.social to be hosting a talk by the brilliant @jimaceverett.bsky.social today on his group's latest work on moral reasoning and AI 👇
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Jim AC Everett @jimaceverett.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
Looking forward to presenting today at 4pm in the Oxford Uehiro Institute talking about work with my PostDoc Scott Claessens and my PhD student Pierce Veitch on how we view others who outsource different tasks to AI and the role that effort plays in shaping perceptions of others.
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Jim AC Everett @jimaceverett.bsky.social · 20/04/2025
I've just finished the most amazing hiking trip across Gran Canaria. I have sore legs but will cherish these beautiful views and memories and new friends for a long time to come. What a beautiful island.
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Jim AC Everett @jimaceverett.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
With changes happening in the world, I've been thinking about this chilling scene from the classic movie Cabaret recently. www.youtube.com/watch?v=_tUc...
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Tomorrow Belongs to Me - Cabaret
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John Gavazzi - Psychologist @drgavazzi.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
AI's social design must reflect human roles (teacher, friend). Relational norms define appropriate behavior. AI's unique traits impact these norms. Ethical design ensures well-being, avoiding unhealthy dependencies. @briandavidearp.bsky.social
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Relational Norms for Human-AI Cooperation
Find information and research on ethics, psychology, decision-making, AI, morality, ethical decision-making for mental health practitioners.
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koenfucius @koenfucius.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
Does The Lion King’s Scar vote Democrat or Republican? Is Marvel’s Iron Man a Tory or Labour supporter? Research by @turnbulldugarte.com & @markuswagner.bsky.social finds people tend to project ingroup/outgroup political identity to respectively fictional heroes and villains: buff.ly/ktq9YM7
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Jeff Lees @leesplez.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
Academic Friends: What is a good tool for organizing an online petition that one might distribute via email to academic peers? Google docs doesn't seem to have an easy way to make a petition.
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Scott Clifford @scottclifford.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
Some new data in on support for political aggression and violence... First, we asked people who they think is doing the most harm in American politics. Clear agreement among Democrats but more variation among Republicans - and some surprising responses.
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Paul Cohen @paulecohen.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
Le Monde reporting that a French scientist traveling to Houston to attend a conference was denied entry to US after a search of his phone & computer revealed messages critical of Trump's science cuts, "which [says CPB] conveyed hatred of Trump & could be qualified as terrorism". Computer confiscated
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Thùy Vy T Nguyễn @thuyvytnguyen.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
Since US academics are talking about @standupforscience.bsky.social and how "a threat to science anywhere is a threat to science everywhere", there is also a crisis in UK Higher Edu. Read the personal accounts and scroll down for more comments👇🏻! www.timeshighereducation.com/depth/uks-re...
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The UK’s redundancy crisis: four views from the front line
Higher education news feeds are currently dominated by near-daily announcements of large job cuts across the UK. But what effect is all this having on the atmosphere within the departments affected – ...
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John Warner @biblioracle.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
Just an absolutely, fundamentally wrong way to report this research. AI models do not experience "anxiety" or any other emotion. This is misinforming the public. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/17/s...
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Jim AC Everett @jimaceverett.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
On my home from a fantastic visit as Visiting Fellow at Centre for Advanced Studies at LMU Munich. Thanks so much to Mathias Twardawski for inviting me. So many interesting discussions with the whole team, and I'm so excited for our new collaborations! @caslmu.bsky.social @mtwardawski.bsky.social
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Jordan Moon @jordanmoon.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
New paper out in SPPS w/ @jaimiekrems.bsky.social (open access) doi.org/10.1177/1948... People who oppose abortion typically suggest that their position is motivated by concern for the unborn. But is there more going on?
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Jim AC Everett @jimaceverett.bsky.social · 15/03/2025
It might be overreacting but I’m getting more and more concerned about travelling to the US for work…
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Diana Tamir @dianatamir.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
📢 The Princeton Social Neuroscience Lab is hiring! 📢 We're seeking a full-time Research Specialist/Lab Manager to study naturalistic conversation, social cognition, and spontaneous thought. More info here: psnlab.princeton.edu/join-us Please apply and share!
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Thanks for your interest in joining our lab! At the Princeton Social Neuroscience Lab, we believe that our science is better with a diverse team. We embrace and encourage our lab members’ differences ...
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Jim AC Everett @jimaceverett.bsky.social · 15/03/2025
I've been on a weightloss journey (part intentional, part unintentional), and this quote in this article really summarises my feelings. It's really discomforting to realise how much your looks shape all kinds of interactions, even non-romantic. www.bbc.com/news/article...
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