Casey Lewry

I'll be at SPSSI in Portland this week presenting our latest work on voting behavior.

Come say hi!

23.06.2025 13:48 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Across 9 experiments (+6600 participants), we explored a paradox: How do non-experts judge scientific explanations they can’t fully understand? We found that scientific jargon can increase people’s satisfaction with explanations, even though it makes them less comprehensible.
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12.06.2025 09:27 — 👍 3    🔁 2    💬 1    📌 0

How laypeople evaluate scientific explanations containing jargon - Nature Human Behaviour Cruz and Lombrozo examine how laypeople make sense of scientific explanations and find that although jargon reduces understanding, for short explanations, jargon makes the explanation more satisfying.

A special thanks to @tanialombrozo.bsky.social, my advisor, without whom this wouldn't be possible, for all the guidance and all she taught me!

And shout-out to my lab mates @keremoktar.bsky.social @caseylewry.bsky.social

Read more here: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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12.06.2025 09:31 — 👍 4    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0

@tanialombrozo.bsky.social

21.05.2025 14:09 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

🎊 New preprint 🎊 w/ Tania Lombrozo

Why do people engage in collective actions, even when they believe their actions won't make a difference?

Based on evidence from the 2024 election and a hypothetical election, we find that *moral* responsibility, not causal, drives voting

osf.io/preprints/ps...

21.05.2025 14:08 — 👍 39    🔁 13    💬 2    📌 1

Thanks for having me and for all the great feedback! Still thinking about the retrospective moral-causal distinction :)

12.05.2025 22:22 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Lay Theories of Moral Progress Many consider the world to be morally better today than it was in the past and expect moral improvement to continue. How do people explain what drives this change? In this paper, we identify two ways...

Related work: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

12.05.2025 20:16 — 👍 4    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

Thanks @caseylewry.bsky.social for sharing your work with us on how "Moral responsibility, not causal responsibility, drives voting: Evidence from the 2024 US presidential election".

Casey finds that people who believe that moral progress is caused by human actions were more likely to vote.

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