Monthly Archives: June 2017

The Australasian society for experimental psychology held its 44th annual conference at Shoal Bay on April 19th-22nd 2017. Ruth Byrne gave a talk on “Moral diminishment: the effects of imagined counterfactual and semi-factual alternatives on moral judgments” (Ruth Byrne, Mary … Continue reading →

The Experimental Psychology Society held a meeting in Queen’s University Belfast on the 10th-12th April 2017 which hosted a symposium on Moral Reasoning and Counterfactuals: Symposium: Moral reasoning and counterfactuals Organiser: Ruth Byrne 2:00 Bertram F Malle  (Brown University) In … Continue reading →

Mary Parkinson has published several experiments from her PhD research in: Parkinson, M. & Byrne, R.M.J. (2017). Moral judgments of risky choices: a moral echoing effect. Judgment & Decision Making, 12, 3, 236-252. The abstract is as follows: “Two experiments … Continue reading →