Thursday 20th June 2024, 2.30pm – 4.00pm (London BST) Professor Rebecca Stangl (University of Virginia) Title: Moral Exemplars, Advice, and Practical Wisdom Moral exemplars play an important and even central role in many virtue ethical theories of practical reason and right action. The virtuous person not only sets…
Wednesday 5th June, 2.30pm – 4.00pm (London BST) Dr Tenelle Porter (Rowan University) Title: Investigating the Effect of Teachers’ Intellectual Humility on Students’ Interest and Learning Abstract: The expression of intellectual humility – publicly admitting confusion, ignorance, and mistakes – can benefit individuals, but can it also benefit others? Five…
We are delighted to share this news report in Science Magazine highlighting our research FANGXIANUO https://www.science.org/content/article/want-avoid-heated-argument-trick-could-help
“On November 14, 2018, we were delighted to host a visit from HRH Prince Edward, the Earl of Wessex. The Earl viewed our Changing Attitudes in Public Discourse lab at the University of Bath, during a tour of the Department of Psychology. After Paul Hanel briefly summarised the project, Prince Edward…
We are delighted to welcome Dr Paul Hanel as our new Bath based Research Associate.
We are delighted to welcome Dr Khadija El-Wakai as our new Cardiff based Research Associate Khadija joins us from Newcastle University where she gained her PhD in the Department of Communication and Language Sciences.
Since it was launched a year ago, the Changing Attitudes in Public Discourse multidisciplinary project has come a long way. We’ve hosted two workshops, and an international conference on Arrogance and Polarisation. Our blog (Open for Debate) has fortnightly posts by guest bloggers on a range of topics from fake news,…
On 6-7 November 2017, a group of leading academics met at Cardiff University to explore the manifestations and causes of arrogance, polarisation, and closed-mindedness in public debate. You can find a Storify of the event here, which covers the conference highlights. Our speakers have also kindly consented to provide slides…
On Friday 20 October 2017, a group of leading academics met at the University of Bath to explore how we might identify arrogant behaviour in public debate. Our speakers have kindly consented to make slides from and/or a podcast of their presentation available online.
We are thrilled to announce the programme for “Arrogance and Polarisation in Debate”, a two-day international conference at Cardiff University. Political opinions in many Western-style democracies show signs of increasing polarisation. This has coincided with a change of tone in debates. Seemingly arrogant behaviours like shouting, mocking, dismissing or rudely…
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Looking back at the panicked discussion of deepfakes in 2018, actually existing deepfake technology has been something of a disappointment. The r/deepfakeSFW subreddit is full of hobbyists face swapping cult […]
It may be hard for us to admit, but many of us are two-faced. That is to say, we act differently depending on who we’re with. We might be polite […]
