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Jim AC Everett @jimaceverett.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

It would be great if at least some of them stayed though, because I want a new job and in this market the less competition the better 🤣

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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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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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Jim AC Everett @jimaceverett.bsky.social · 08/08/2025

It was so wonderful to have you here. You’re such a bright light and made the experience so much fun and so rewarding. I’m looking forward to working together in the future :)

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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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Jim AC Everett @jimaceverett.bsky.social · 14/06/2025

Congratulations Emily! Your work is so interesting and important and I'm really excited to see what you do with @shelleymckeown.bsky.social!

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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

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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

I'm trying to think about these photos of my roses as a reminder for persistence in my research. Even when things look like they are dormant and not fitting, there’s a season coming when it will all come together.

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Jim AC Everett @jimaceverett.bsky.social · 23/05/2025

I think this is in some ways a nice metaphor for research in academia. Sometimes it can feel like there is no progress with paper rejections, dead-ends, problems in research infrastructure. But even when it feels like nothing is happening, things are happening in the background.

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Jim AC Everett @jimaceverett.bsky.social · 23/05/2025

One day seemingly all at once, buds appear. The roses burst open all in one go and the garden is alive with different fragrances.

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Jim AC Everett @jimaceverett.bsky.social · 23/05/2025

All winter, the garden looks bare. The branches seem brittle, the ground lifeless. It gets to February and it seems like a lot of work to sort everything out, with little apparent benefit. You do it, and the garden still looks lifeless and dull. But beneath the surface, progress is happening.

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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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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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Jim AC Everett @jimaceverett.bsky.social · 08/05/2025

I have (over)used the em dash to a frankly excessive degree since I was in grad school and some damned technology is not going to stop me now. Stand with me and push back against the robot overlords (and their opponents), J-F.

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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

Pre-print draft available here: osf.io/preprints/ps...

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Jim AC Everett @jimaceverett.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

As well as advancing our understanding of how we use signals of effort to form impressions of character in a world filled with generative AI, we end by raising the key question: In a world chasing optimization, is something lost when we outsource the doing itself?

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Jim AC Everett @jimaceverett.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

This work offers a psychological counterpoint to the narrative that AI always enhances efficiency - and that we should always enhance efficiency. Sometimes, doing things the hard way matters – especially when it comes to signalling value, authenticity, and character.

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Jim AC Everett @jimaceverett.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

Why? It’s not just about effort. Our findings suggest people infer less authenticity and less care when someone outsources a personal task to AI. As one participant put it: “If he really cared, he would have just done it by himself from scratch.”

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Jim AC Everett @jimaceverett.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

Critically, even when people use AI transparently, collaboratively, and for "good reason", negative judgments persist. We show that outsourcing not only leads us to think more negatively about the person outsourcing and their motivations, but also the outsourced work itself.

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Jim AC Everett @jimaceverett.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

Across five pre-registered studies we show people form negative impressions of those who use AI, especially when they use it to complete socio-relational tasks – things like writing love letters or wedding vows.

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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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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

Thank you to everyone who has discussed these ideas with us, especially critically, including @mjcrockett.bsky.social , @minzlicht.bsky.social , @dcameron.bsky.social. Preprint here: osf.io/preprints/ps...

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Jim AC Everett @jimaceverett.bsky.social · 24/04/2025

We end by placing these discussions in a broader context, suggesting there are no easy answers but we need to fundamentally grapple with this broader political and social context. Critically: what future for humans do we want?

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Jim AC Everett @jimaceverett.bsky.social · 24/04/2025

Still, though, there are problems - it risks alienating humans, it risks a shallow focus on words, and we know there are problems with cultural bias in AI models.

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