@kathrynbfrancis.bsky.social
Lecturer in Psychology. Moral psychology, social cognition, & xphi. Interested in understanding moral conflict in human-animal/nature relations 🐷🍃 and bioethics 💊. Exploring innovative methods like VR.
A book called the Psychgeist of pop culture, the legend of Zelda sitting on top five other books in the same series. The background is a mountain landscape.
The latest #Psychgeist entry has arrived!
THE LEGEND OF ZELDA 🗡️
I’m SO excited to read it this weekend ♥️
Thank you @annayahprosser.bsky.social @drkowert.bsky.social 🙏
We're delighted to welcome @kathrynbfrancis.bsky.social to the position of Senior Researcher in Moral Psychology and Design Bioethics, at the Uehiro Oxford Institute.
Read more about Kathryn here: www.practicalethics.ox.ac.uk/people/dr-ka...
#morality #emergingtech #ethics #welcome
📣 Speaker Announcement: We look forward to hearing about how diets shape activism and moral expansiveness. Join us at this year's PHAIR Animal Advocacy Conference 2025 (July 2-5) in Edinburgh: phair2025.co.uk
30.04.2025 11:56 — 👍 7 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 1Excited to be attending @phair-society.bsky.social this year in Edinburgh with @kathrynbfrancis.bsky.social , Elise Hankins and Daniel Martin! 💪
09.05.2025 19:18 — 👍 13 🔁 3 💬 1 📌 0
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.
24.04.2025 07:35 — 👍 9 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 2Super 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 👇
24.04.2025 08:14 — 👍 8 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
Very excited for our Symposium this morning on context effects in Moral Judgment.
With @kathrynbfrancis.bsky.social Dries Bostyn & Connie Chiu
#SPSP2025
Looking forward to our session tomorrow at #SPSP2025 at the intersection of AI and moral psychology. Be there Saturday at 11am in the Four Seasons Ballroom!
21.02.2025 21:08 — 👍 7 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 1Looks great! 😎
12.02.2025 22:59 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Reminder of the call for abstracts! Deadline approaching: Basel-Oxford-NUS Experimental Philosophical Bioethics (BioXPhi) Summit 2025 | hosted at the University of Basel, keynotes by Edmond Awad and Matti Wilks
21.01.2025 18:07 — 👍 15 🔁 9 💬 0 📌 0Thanks Pete! Staying put for the time being 😊 but we'll see how the commuting goes 😅. It'll be nice working up in Yorkshire again!
23.12.2024 09:18 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0The deadline for the EASP summer school has been extended to 8th Jan! All topics below ⬇️ @jimaceverett.bsky.social and I are co-leading the Moral Psychology & AI workstream - interested PhD students, please do apply! Get in touch if you have any questions 🙂
23.12.2024 08:22 — 👍 4 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0Thanks Jim 🙏
21.12.2024 08:09 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
In January, I'll be leaving Keele Uni. It's been an exciting 4-years & I'll miss my awesome colleagues (& idyllic campus).
In 2025, I'm joining the School of Psychology at the @universityofleeds.bsky.social & creating the Moral Minds Lab 🧠 On to the next adventure...
But first...rest & holidays🎄
Cool to see our research led by @rkapitany.bsky.social summarised in the New Scientist @newscientist.bsky.social! Does Santa make children act nicer around Christmas?
10.12.2024 08:47 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Happy to release a pre-print 5 years in the making!
"A two-wave longitudinal study of children’s prosocial behavior during Christmas."
It's currently under review at Current Research in Behavioral Sciences. Watch this space.
osf.io/preprints/os...
Thank you! 🙏
20.11.2024 22:29 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Looking forward to reading this!
18.11.2024 22:49 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Could anyone help me to track down *accurate* statistics on the number of vegans and vegetarians across countries worldwide? I'm looking for accurate country-level data - TIA!
12.11.2024 17:16 — 👍 1 🔁 3 💬 1 📌 0
📣 Excited to announce the PHAIR Animal Advocacy Conference 2025!
July 2–5, 2025 at the University of Edinburgh
The conference brings together researchers from the social & behavioural sciences, and animal activists and advocates from around the world
Info and updates: phair2025.co.uk
Excited to be involved in this and to be working with @jimaceverett.bsky.social! Please do apply to join us in lovely Canterbury next summer. #moralpsychology #EASP
12.11.2024 16:48 — 👍 5 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
The power of virtual reality…
Ella Rhodes hears from those using the technology: has its early promise been realised?
www.bps.org.uk/psychologist...
Excited to announce that through the Consortium on Moral Decision-Making (moralconsortium.psu.edu), I will be hosting a special cross-over conference with the Moral Psychology Research Group (sites.google.com/view/mprg/home) this November! More details below... 1/n
24.10.2024 20:35 — 👍 12 🔁 6 💬 1 📌 2
And Published!!
(at www-sciencedirect-com.proxy.lib.ul.ie/science/arti... )
We clarify the influences of and instrumentality (means/side-effects) personal force on moral judgments
Again thanks to coauthors @kathrynbfrancis.bsky.social @jimaceverett.bsky.social & Shane Timmons!
After a very quick minor revisions this has now been accepted! 🥳🥳🥳
(With @kathrynbfrancis.bsky.social @jimaceverett.bsky.social & Shane Timmons )
New research by Maria Ioannidou et al shows that increased awareness of harm to dairy cows reduces moral concern & mind attribution to cows, yet also increases dairy reduction intentions, especially among those higher on speciesism
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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If you're free and want to attend a public lecture I'm giving in Oxford on moral decision making in #VR please join :) 👇 30th November 10.30am Oxford Martin School #moralpsych bookwhen.com/uehiro#focus...
06.11.2023 11:38 — 👍 9 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0My fantastic colleague Claire Monroy is looking for a postgraduate RA to assist with an EEG project investigating cognitive development of deaf & hearing infants. Please share widely! #AcademicTwitter #psychology ce0639li.webitrent.com/ce0639li_web...
01.11.2023 15:44 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
PhD opportunity in Psychology at Keele University(UK)! If you're interested in human-animal relations, speciesism, and dietary identity please get in touch with me 😊 Please share widely #moralpsychology #psychology #PhD www.findaphd.com/phds/program...
31.10.2023 17:56 — 👍 7 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
International Moral Psychology Seminar Series returns this October 2nd at 12pm EST.
Flashtalk: Brandon Bretl
Main talk: Niels Skovgaard-Olsen
With @drmeltemyucel.bsky.social and Jim Everett (not sure if he's here yet)
Click below to register
#PsychSciSky #SocialPsycSky
