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Josh Rottman

@joshrottman.bsky.social
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Professor of moral psychology and cognitive science @ Franklin & Marshall College. Dad, vegan, nature-lover. www.joshuarottman.com

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Society for Philosophy and Psychology @socphilpsych.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
The program for the 52nd meeting of the SPP is now available ✨ Taking place at Johns Hopkins University, June 17-20:
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SPP 2026 Program
52nd Annual Meeting of the Society for Philosophy and Psychology June 17–20, 2026 Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD DRAFT PROGRAM Details are subject to change Program At-A-Glance Wednesd...
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Society for Philosophy and Psychology @socphilpsych.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
🚨DEADLINE EXTENDED🚨 The extended submission deadline is January 30, 2026. Submit your work here:
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SPP 2026 Conference
Welcome to the OpenReview homepage for SPP 2026 Conference
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Josh Rottman @joshrottman.bsky.social · 27/11/2025
Happy Thanksgiving, all! www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/mora...
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On Thanksgiving, Remember That Truth Is a Uniting Force
It’s easy to feel pessimistic about political conversations. But new research provides room for optimism, showing that striving for true beliefs is valued across partisan lines.
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Society for Philosophy and Psychology @socphilpsych.bsky.social · 22/11/2025
🚨🚨🚨 Our 52nd Annual Meeting will be held from June 18–20, 2026 at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, MD, with a pre-conference on Mental Control and Agency held at JHU on June 17 🚨🚨🚨 We are currently inviting submissions of papers (talks and posters)!
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Sydney Levine @sydneylevine.bsky.social · 14/11/2025
I'm recruiting a grad student! My lab at NYU (psych dept) studies the computational basis of moral cognition and aims to build AI systems that are aligned with human values. Now admitting a PhD student for Fall 2026. Apps due 12/1. sites.google.com/corp/site/sy...
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Sydney Levine - Open Positions
Graduate Students (PhD program) I will be accepting PhD students through the NYU psychology department for the current application cycle (for admission in Fall 2026). My lab is joint between the Co...
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Daniel Kelly @dryan149.bsky.social · 07/11/2025
🚨New Paper!🚨 Do you love authenticity? @ledaberio.bsky.social and I argue that maybe you shouldn't! We think that everything would be better if we all just got over the idea of true selves and were cooler with the fact that we all contain multitudes. link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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Challenges to Narrating a Multitudinous Self: Towards a Better Ethics of Code-switching - Topoi
We motivate and lay out the broad contours of a research program, namely that of developing a systematic ethics of code-switching. Such an ethics will articulate the values and norms that should gover...
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Josh Rottman @joshrottman.bsky.social · 07/11/2025
🚨New publication in JEP:G!🚨 We find that, even when a belief serves as a marker of ideological identity, people do not think it is good to engage in partisan motivated reasoning. Instead, people endorse the pursuit of accuracy motives even if these lead to adopting outgroup beliefs. bit.ly/498S8Xk
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megan peters 🧠 @meganakpeters.bsky.social · 26/09/2025
wow this is super neat. vision science is so cool.
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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 15/09/2025
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Michael Inzlicht @minzlicht.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
Major new paper by finds implicit measures like the IAT are no better than asking people directly about their biases. After decades of avoiding self-reports, turns out our sophisticated replacement tools work no better than what we abandoned. New post!
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The Great Implicit Bias Bamboozle
Where were you when you first learned about implicit bias?
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Jeff Zacks @jzacks.bsky.social · 04/09/2025
Short videos highlighting the science that is not getting done due to federal science cuts: www.youtube.com/shorts/2J_BW... Share them! (Thanks to Timothy Wilson and his collaborators for making these!)
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Preventing Misinformation @science
YouTube video by What We'll Never Know
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Josh Rottman @joshrottman.bsky.social · 02/09/2025
Discussions in my Psychology of Ideology class this week on what it would mean to be "non-ideological" have prompted some fun image creation with ChatGPT 😂 (Thanks to readings by @leorzmigrod.bsky.social & @mjbsp.bsky.social for inspiration)
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Josh de Leeuw @joshdeleeuw.bsky.social · 29/07/2025
Vassar College is hiring a tenure track assistant professor in cognitive science. vassar.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/Vassar... I'll be at #CogSci2025 - happy to chat about the position and life at Vassar.
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Assistant Professor of Cognitive Science, Tenure Track
Department Cognitive Science Vassar College is dedicated to providing equal employment opportunities to all applicants and employees and welcomes applications from individuals of all backgrounds. Deci...
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joannad-c.bsky.social @joannad-c.bsky.social · 21/07/2025
Attention philosophers, x-philosophers and moral psychologists - I'm hiring! Two, 3-year research fellowships on an interdisciplinary project in the Philosophical Moral Psychology Lab at the Uehiro Institute, Oxford. Pass it on! For more info and to apply: tinyurl.com/mrwwuyaw
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a penguin is sticking his head out of a hole next to a job application
ALT: a penguin is sticking his head out of a hole next to a job application
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Julia Marshall @juliamarshall.bsky.social · 28/05/2025
🥳🥳 New paper in @nathumbehav.nature.com: “When development constricts our moral circle." Contrary to popular belief, younger kids may start out with broader moral circles than older ones. Check it out here 👉 rdcu.be/eoaSe w/ @mattiwilks.bsky.social @karrineldner.bsky.social & Lucius Caviola
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When development constricts our moral circle
Nature Human Behaviour - Although many believe our moral circles expand with age, this Perspective discusses an early-emerging tendency to care for others.
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Josh Rottman @joshrottman.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
Inspired by research from @mattiwilks.bsky.social @amormino.bsky.social @shawnrhoadsphd.bsky.social @eranhalperin75.bsky.social and others: www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/mora...
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The Pope Intuitively Understood Aspects of Moral Psychology
J.D. Vance has promoted a parochial view of moral obligations. Pope Francis provided a corrective that also receives support from psychological science.
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Michael Bang Petersen @m-b-petersen.bsky.social · 18/04/2025
This statement from the NSF is insane. Science is, in essence, designed to separate the true from the false. Understanding how falsehoods spread is key to the scientific endeavor. It is not a violation of free speech to be proven wrong.
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Ryan Lei @ryanlei.bsky.social · 12/04/2025
A recurring thought over the last few months -- creating something is very hard, and destruction is so much easier.
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Stephan Lewandowsky @lewan.uk · 10/04/2025
Honest people don’t lie. Or do they? Liars aren’t honest. Or are they? One puzzling conundrum in contemporary politics is that politicians who seem to be estranged from facts and evidence are nonetheless considered honest by their followers. 1/n
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Leor Zmigrod @leorzmigrod.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
📰 Interview about The Ideological Brain for The New York Times @nytimes.com just released! Really enjoyed this conversation with Matt Richtel about ideologies, neuroscience, and our capacity for change Check it out: www.nytimes.com/2025/04/08/s...
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Ike Silver @ikesilver.bsky.social · 22/03/2025
Really proud of this new work out @psychscience.bsky.social. Led by the amazing but bluesky-less Amanda Geiser and with @deborahsmall.bsky.social. We show that when comparing moral wrongs, people are (much) more willing to “scale up” than to “scale down” condemnation and punishment…
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Sam @samd.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
uhhhh it looks like Dems just flipped a R+17 Pennsylvania State Senate seat in Amish country…
2025 Lancaster County
General
Pennsylvania State Senate 36
Special Election General
DOHQ Last Updated: Mar 25, 2025 at 9:57 PM
> 95% est. reporting
Candidates
Party
Votes
Pct.
James
Malone
DEM
26,518
50.3%
Josh Parsons
GOP
25,721
48.8%
Zachary
Moore
LIB
473
0.9%
Total
52,712
* Incumbent

Election Date: 3/25/2025
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M.J. Crockett @mjcrockett.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
I'm hiring a lab manager to start this summer/fall, to work on transformative experience, identity change, and empathy in the digital age. Details here: www.crockettlab.org/research-spe... Please share!
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Research Specialist 2025 — Crockett Lab
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Josh Rottman @joshrottman.bsky.social · 22/12/2024
The joys of chatting with the Xfinity Virtual Assistant are unparalleled
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Helen De Cruz @helendecruz.net · 30/11/2024
Here's a post I wrote arguing against bucket lists (I think they are simply not useful, contribute to harmful mass tourism without enriching people's experience, encouraging people to put off goals for play and recreation until retirement. helendecruz.substack.com/p/against-bu...
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Against bucket lists
This picture shows a line of climbers attempting to reach the summit of Mount Everest.
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Melissa Kibbe @levelsof.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
Society for Philosophy and Psychology 2025 (June 19-21, 2025 at Cornell) is going to be 🔥🔥🔥 and the submission portal is now live! Submit abstracts of 750 words+1 figure by Jan 24, 2025 at 11:59pm EST easychair.org/my/conferenc....
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Log in to EasyChair for SPP2025
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