Our published research
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Consent in a Deeper Sense
Demaree-Cotton, J., Knobe, J., & Sommers, R. (2025).
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Relational Norms for Human-AI Cooperation
Earp, B. D., Mann, S. P., Aboy, M., Awad, E., Betzler, M., Botes, M., ... & Clark, M. S. (2025)
arXiv preprint arXiv:2502.12102.
Publications
2026
People defer to AI moral advice, but not blindly
Landes, E., Francis, K.B., Everett, J.A.C. (2026). Cognition, 272, 106504. Link>> | Download PDF
Principles for Understanding Trust in Artificial Intelligence
Everett, J. A., Claessens, S., Knöchel, T. D., & Reinecke, M. G. (2026). Nature Reviews Psychology, 1-14. Link>> | Download PDF
2025
Enlightened Beneficence: A Kantian Alternative to Effective Altruism
Mihailov, E. (2025). Res Publica, 1-19. Link>> | Download PDF
Public trust and blame attribution in human-AI interactions: a comparison between air traffic control and vehicle driving
Mei, P., Cannon, R., Everett, J., Liu, P., & Awad, E. (2025). Transportation Research Interdisciplinary Perspectives, 32, 101545. Link>> | Download PDF
Moral Dilemmas
Demaree-Cotton, J., & Kahane, G. (2025). In B. Malle & P. Robbins (Eds.), The Cambridge Handbook of Moral Psychology (pp. 101–123). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Link>> | Download PDF
"If ChatGPT can do it, where is my creativity?" Generative AI boosts performance but diminishes experience in a creative writing task
Mei, P., Brewis, D. N., Nwaiwu, F., Sumanathilaka, D., Alva-Manchego, F., & Demaree-Cotton, J. (2025) Computers in Human Behavior: Artificial Humans, 100140. Link>> | Download PDF
AI-Assisted Adaptive Teaching Methods in Secondary and Higher Education
Reinecke, A. G., Ting, F., Savulescu, J., & Singh, I. (2025) Proceedings, 114(1), 4. Published: 26 February 2025. Link>> Download PDF
Developmental changes in the perceived moral standing of robots
Reinecke, M. G., Wilks, M., & Bloom, P. (2025) Cognition, 254, 105983. Available online: 9 November 2024. Link>> | Download PDF
Morality on the road: Should machine drivers be more utilitarian than human drivers?
Liu, P., Chu, Y., Zhai, S., Zhang, T., & Awad, E. (2025) Cognition, 254, 106011. Link>> | Download PDF
2024
When is it acceptable to break the rules? Knowledge representation of moral judgements based on empirical data
Awad, E., Levine, S., Loreggia, A., Mattei, N., Rahwan, I., Rossi, F., ... & Kleiman-Weiner, M. (2024) Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems, 38(2), 35. Link>> | Download PDF
Legal provisions on medical aid in dying encode moral intuition
Hannikainen, I. R., Suárez, J., Espericueta, L., Menéndez-Ferreras, M., & Rodríguez-Arias, D. (2024). Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 121(42), e2406823121. Link>> | Download PDF
Credit and blame for AI–generated content: Effects of personalization in four countries
Earp, B. D., Porsdam Mann, S., Liu, P., Hannikainen, I., Khan, M. A., Chu, Y., & Savulescu, J. (2024) Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences. First published: 25 November 2024. Link>> | Download PDF
Time for Bioethics to End Talk of Personhood (But Only in the Philosophers' Sense)
Dranseika, V., Neiders, I., & Earp, B. D. (2024) The American Journal of Bioethics, 24(1), 32–35. Link>> | Download PDF
2023
Should AI allocate livers for transplant? Public attitudes and ethical considerations
Drezga-Kleiminger, M., Demaree-Cotton, J., Koplin, J. et al. (2023) BMC Med Ethics, 24, 102. Link>> | Download PDF
Sacrificing objects instead of persons: Order effects without emotional engagement
Mihailov, E., Hannikainen, I., & Wiegmann, A. (2023) Philosophical Psychology (38(2), 579–598. Link>> | Download PDF
Experimental philosophical bioethics, advance directives, and the true self in dementia
Earp, B. D., Hannikainen, I., Dale, S., & Latham, S. R. (2023). In A. De Block & K. Hens (eds.), Experimental Philosophy of Medicine. (pp. 259-284) London: Bloomsbury. Link>> | Download PDF
2022
Autonomy and the folk concept of valid consent
Demaree-Cotton, J., & Sommers, R. (2022). Cognition, 224, 105065. Link>> | Download PDF
Bioethics, experimental approaches
Lewis, J., Demaree-Cotton, J., & Earp, B. D. (2022). In M. N. S. Sellers & S. Kirste (eds.), Encyclopedia of the Philosophy of Law and Social Philosophy. Cham, Switzerland: Springer. Link>> | Download PDF
Experimental philosophical bioethics of personal identity
Earp, B. D., Lewis, J. Skorburg, J. A., Hannikainen, I., & Everett, J. A. C. (2022). In K. Tobia (ed.), Experimental Philosophy of Identity and the Self. London: Bloomsbury Link>> | Download PDF
2021
How social relationships shape moral wrongness judgments
Earp, B. D., McLoughlin, K. L., Monrad, J. T., Clark, M. S., & Crockett, M. J. (2021). Nature Communications, 12(5776), 1-13. Link>> | Download PDF
Experimental philosophical bioethics and normative inference
Earp, B.D., Lewis, J., Dranseika, V., & Hannikainen, I. (2021). Theoretical Medicine and Bioethics, 42(1), 91–111. Link>> | Download PDF
Advancing methods in empirical bioethics: bioxphi meets digital technologies
Mihailov, e., Hannikainen, I., & Earp, B. D. (2021). American Journal of Bioethics, 21(6), 53-56. Link>> | Download PDF
Medical student assessment of pediatric patient pain as a function of perceived child gender
Reardon, A. W. T., Earp, B. D., Adreski, P., Monrad, J. T., Cohen, L. L., & Freed, G. (2021). JAMA Network Open, 4(6), e2113010. Link>> | Download PDF
2020
Experimental philosophical bioethics
Earp, B. D., Demaree-Cotton, J., [...] & Tobia, K. P. (2020). AJOB Empirical Bioethics, 11(1), 30-33. Link>> | Download PDF
Personal transformation and advance directives: an experimental bioethics approach
Earp, B. D., Latham, S. R., & Tobia, K. P. (2020). American Journal of Bioethics, 20(8), 72-75. Link>> | Download PDF
Is conscious awareness required for facial pain detection?
Earp, B. D., Karos, K., & Heathcote, L. C. (2020). Journal of Mind and Behavior, 41(1), 39-52. Link>> | Download PDF
A neuroeconomic framework for investigating gender disparities in moralistic punishment
Chawla, M., Earp, B. D., & Crockett, M. J. (2020). Current Opinion on Behavioral Sciences, 34(1), 166-172. Link>> | Download PDF
Who are "we" and why are we cooperating? Insights from social psychology
Clark, M. S., Earp, B. D., & Crockett, M. J. (2020). Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 43(e66), 21-23. Link>> | Download PDF
2019
Gender bias in pediatric pain assessment
Earp, B. D., Monrad, J. T., LaFrance, M., Bargh, J. A., Cohen, L. L., Richeson, J. A. (2019). Journal of Pediatric Psychology, 44(4), 403-414. Link>> | Download PDF
Priming intuition disfavors instrumental harm but not impartial beneficence
Capraro, V., Everett, J. A. C., & Earp, B. D. (2019). Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 83(1), 142-149. Link>> | Download PDF
Addiction, identity, morality
Earp, B. D., Skorburg, J. A., Everett, J. A. C., & Savulescu, J. (2019). AJOB Empirical Bioethics, 10(2), 136-153. Link>> | Download PDF
2018
Beyond sacrificial harm: a two-dimensional model of utilitarian psychology
Kahane, G., Everett, J. A. C., Earp, B. D., Caviola, L., Faber, N., Crockett, M. J., & Savulescu, J. (2018). Psychological Review, 125(2), 131-164. Link>> | Download PDF