Papers

'Perpetuation of Gender Inequalities' published in Cognition and Culture

August 30, 2024
Angarika Deb, Tamara Kusimova and Ohan Hominis discuss economic, sociological and psychological factors that--together--can explain why women across the world continue to do more housework than men, and find this situation to be fair. 

Akos Szegofi publishes in Cognition and Culture, on blood libels

August 30, 2024

Blood libels are narratives about Jews and Christians, featuring an accusation that a child or a woman had been kidnapped and assaulted due to religious or economic goals. In his paper, Akos reports and analyses how groups that differ culturally nevertheless use blood libel-like narratives. They do so, Akos argues, in coalitional warfare between groups.

The paper can be found here:

https://doi.org/10.1163/15685373-12340186

'Bargaining between the sexes' published in Evolution and Human Behaviour

August 1, 2024
In this paper, we study two hunter-gatherer communities and how they divide labour and leisure in the household. Does the partner who has greater social capital have higher leverage in the household to negociate a bigger share of leisure time? The answer is no. In these communities, there is a remarkably equal division of labour and leisure, even if one of the partner has more capital than the other.
The paper is open access and can be accessessed here:

New paper in Scientific Reports

January 17, 2024

Are epistemic actions subject to moral evaluation? At first sight, no: their intended consequences are on beliefs, not on the welfare of others. But in fact, yes: People do express moral disapproval by saying things like: “you should have checked!”.

Katarina, Francesca and Christophe published 'The importance of epistemic action in ascription of responsibility' 

https://rdcu.be/dvPcb

We published! A new paper on deniability by Belma, Francesca, Thom & Christophe!

January 12, 2023

The ACES team published a new paper on "Communication and deniability: Moral and epistemic reactions to denials".

The paper, co-authored by Francesca Bonalumi, Feride Belma Bumin, Thom Scott-Phillips and Christophe Heintz investigates the cognitive reactions to speakers' denials: if the speakers had incentives to mislead you, would their deniable still be credible? Would the speaker be blamed more for misleading you?

You can find the paper in a new Special Issue on "Relevance in Mind" in Frontiers in Psychology: