Esteban Hernandez-Rivera

This sums up my post-Phd career, so far:

Luk, G., Hernández-Rivera, E., Tarín, K., Chen, D., Jang, M., & Titone, D. (2025). Math attitudes and verbal memory in multilingual younger adults. Canadian Journal of Experimental Psychology / Revue canadienne de psychologie expérimentale.

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Suppose Tom loses control of his body, and his bodily motions then cause an accident. Would it be right to say “Tom caused the accident?”

A new paper explores the role that language plays in these links between agency and causation!

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Contractualist Moral Cognition: From the Normative to the Descriptive at Three Levels of Analysis Visual summary of the paper. Taking inspiration from the contractualist tradition in moral philosophy is helpful to better understand morality at three interrelated levels of analysis: Its evolutiona...

Arthur has written a wonderful, clear, super helpful introduction to contractualism as a foundation for moral psychology. Perfect for getting up to speed, teaching, a desk reference, or a sunny day at the beach. wires.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Women are seen as more moral, research by @jowylie.bsky.social et al finds—people mentally picture “a morally good person” as a woman, tend to ascribe morally good traits more to women than to men, and stereotype behaviours associated with moral goodness as feminine:
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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.

🥳🥳 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

The spatiotemporal dynamics of bottom-up and top-down processing during at-a-glance reading Like all domains of cognition, language processing is affected by top-down knowledge. Classic evidence for this is missing blatant errors in the signal. In sentence comprehension, one instance is fail...

Excited to share Nigel Flower’s new MEG study on neural Sentence Superiority in parallel visual presentation. This work offers insights into how the brain detects & repairs word order errors, w early detection at ~200ms and repair mechanisms at starting at ~350ms doi.org/10.1523/JNEU...

woah, this is a cool picture! I’m sure the people at r/evilbuildings on reddit would love this 😅

I might have gone too click-happy with the following lists…I just joined an I’m already following 205 people 😂

4/n Multiple other factors are, of course, relevant here. More work on the pipeline! 🤞🏾

3/n The idea presented in this paper is that *some* of the self-evaluations we make about our language experience (i.e., how good am I at X…) seem to depend on our language-related attitudes towards the language we are being asked about!

2/n Quite often we ask participants all sorts of questions about how good they are at…, how much they use…, when did they acquire…However, how often do we stop ourselves to ask, “how good are people are estimating these values”?

I’m so happy this paper is finally published on #bilingualism and #self-evaluations!

Couldn’t be more grateful for getting the opportunity to write about some of our ideas on why some of the self-reports we often use in #multilingualism are not as stable as we’d like to believe!

This is so cool! Fingers crossed ✈️🤞🏾