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🚨Preprint 👩‍⚖️Proximate causation is central for determining legal liability, but notoriously confusing! How do judges decide whose action should count as “the cause” of a harmful outcome? In a seminal article, Knobe & Shapiro (2021) suggested: by focussing on abnormality!

Two weeks left to submit a poster to the multidisciplinary Machine+Behavior conference (Berlin, April 29-30). This is a great opportunity for early career researchers. We also have a great line-up of invited speakers, including from animal behavior (Iain Couzin), evolutionary

It was so much fun to have participated in this ProSieben documentary on "Can AI save democracy?"🎥📺 My colleague Rodrigo, Center for Humans & Machines's very own Furhat Robotics robot & I had a blast talking about our research. You can stream it here (in German): prosieben.de/serien/prosieb…

📢 Now out in "AI and Ethics" ❓ What are the consequences of AI that can reason counterfactually? 🗞️ Our new paper explores the ethical dimensions of AI-driven counterfactual world simulation. 🌎 🤖 With Tobias Gerstenberg, Rob MacCoun & Thomas Icard. link.springer.com/article/10.100…

🏔️ Brad is lost in the wilderness—but doesn’t know there’s a town nearby. Is he 𝑓𝑜𝑟𝑐𝑒𝑑 to stay put? We show that judgments of what’s possible—and whether someone had to act—depend on what agents know. #CogSci2025 🔗osf.io/preprints/psya… w/ @MMandelkern and Jonathan Phillips

What makes people judge that someone was forced to take a particular action? Research by @lara_kirfel et al suggests one influence on this judgment is people’s representation of what an agent knows is possible: buff.ly/7S7sHVH HT Experimental Philosophy

People receive more blame for unanticipated consequences of their actions if they could have been informed of said consequences but chose not to. We review possible explanations in our new paper. doi.org/10.1016/j.cops…

Research by @lara_kirfel et al suggests people have a sophisticated, multifaceted understanding of wilful ignorance, and will attribute blame according to a moral responsibility depending not only on what someone knows, but on their willingness to know: buff.ly/KIrdpRK