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- 2017
- Conference Presentation
The Ladder of Charity
By: J. De Freitas, P. DeScioli, K. Thomas and S. Pinker
- 2017
- Article
True Happiness: The Role of Morality in the Concept of Happiness
By: Jonathan Phillips, Julian De Freitas, Christian Mott, June Gruber and Joshua Knobe
Recent scientific research has settled on a purely descriptive definition of happiness that is focused solely on agents' psychological states (high positive affect, low negative affect, high life satisfaction). In contrast to this understanding, recent research has... View Details
- 2016
- Article
Recursive Mentalizing and Common Knowledge in the Bystander Effect
By: Kyle A. Thomas, Julian De Freitas, Peter DiScioli and Steven Pinker
The more potential helpers there are, the less likely any individual is to help. A traditional explanation
for this bystander effect is that responsibility diffuses across the multiple bystanders, diluting the responsibility of each. We investigate an... View Details
- Article
Tracking the Changing Feature of a Moving Object
By: Julian De Freitas, Nicholas E. Myers and Anna C. Nobre
The mind can track not only the changing locations of moving objects, but also their changing features, which are often meaningful for guiding action. How does the mind track such features? Using a task in which observers tracked the changing orientation of a rolling... View Details
- 2016
- Panel Discussion
Mutual Constraints in Moral Cognition and Language
By: J. De Freitas, P. DeScioli, J. Nemirow, M. Massenkof and S. Pinker
- 2015
- Article
Beliefs About the True Self Explain Asymmetries Based on Moral Judgment
By: George E. Newman, Julian De Freitas and Joshua Knobe
Past research has identified a number of asymmetries based on moral judgments. Beliefs about
(a) what a person values, (b) whether a person is happy, (c) whether a person has shown weakness
of will, and (d) whether a person deserves praise or blame seem to depend... View Details
- 2015
- Conference Presentation
Behaviorist Thinking in Judgments of Wrongness, Punishment, and Blame
By: J. De Freitas and S. G. B. Johnson
- 2015
- Conference Presentation
Is There Universal Belief in a Good True Self?
By: J. De Freitas, H. Sarkissian, I. Grossmann, F. De Brigard, A. Luco and G. E. Newman
- 2015
- Conference Presentation
Is There Universal Belief in a Good True Self?
By: J. De Freitas, H. Sarkissian, I. Grossmann, F. De Brigard, A. Luco, G. E. Newman and J. Knobe
- 2015
- Conference Presentation
Mental Tracking of Dynamic Features
By: J. De Freitas, N. E. Nobre and A. C. Nobre
- 2015
- Conference Presentation
The Strategic Bystander: Recursive Theory of Mind and Common Knowledge in Decisions to Help
By: J. De Freitas, K. A. Thomas, P. DeScioli and S. Pinker
- 2014
- Conference Presentation
The Good Ship Theseus: The Effect of Valence on Object Identity Judgments
By: J. De Freitas, K. Tobia, J. E. Newman and J. Knobe
- 2014
- Article
Attentional Rhythm: A Temporal Analogue of Object-Based Attention
By: Julian De Freitas, Brandon Liverence and Brian J. Scholl
The underlying units of attention are often discrete visual objects. Perhaps the clearest form of evidence for this is the same-object advantage: Following a spatial cue, responses are faster to probes occurring on the same object than they are to probes occurring on... View Details
- 2014
- Conference Presentation
Beliefs about the True Self Explain Asymmetries Based on Moral Judgment
By: J. E. Newman, J. De Freitas and J. Knobe