Research
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Latest funding
- $71,600
Moral Machines: Identifying Cues of Humanness that Influence Judgments of Robot Morality
NSERC · 2020 · Principal investigator
- $22,400
Metatheoretical Awareness: A Context-Sensitive Approach to Implicit Theories of Willpower
SSHRC · 2020 · Principal investigator
- $56,600
Metatheoretical Awareness: A Context-Sensitive Approach to Implicit Theories of Willpower
SSHRC · 2020 · Principal investigator
No publications available.
Moral Machines: Identifying Cues of Humanness that Influence Judgments of Robot Morality
Principal investigators: Plaks, Jason
Keywords: human-robot interaction; morality
Metatheoretical Awareness: A Context-Sensitive Approach to Implicit Theories of Willpower
Principal investigators: Plaks, Jason E.
Keywords: willpower; implicit theories; motivation; social cognition
Metatheoretical Awareness: A Context-Sensitive Approach to Implicit Theories of Willpower
Principal investigators: Plaks, Jason E.
Keywords: willpower; implicit theories; motivation; social cognition
Implicit Theories of Willpower: Identifying Costs and Benefits for Older and Younger Adults' Cognition
Principal investigators: Plaks, Jason
Keywords: (1) implicit theories; (2) cognitive control; (3) aging and cognition
Lay theories of human genetic variation and the decision to shoot
Principal investigators: Plaks, Jason E.
Keywords: prejudice; racism; social cognition; intergroup relations
Folk beliefs about genetic variation: effects on implicit race bias
Principal investigators: Plaks, Jason E.
Keywords: stereotyping; prejudice; social cognition; intergroup relations; folk beliefs
From CIHR, NSERC and SSHRC funding decisions: CIHR since 2008, NSERC since 1991 and SSHRC since 1998, including their latest published competition results.
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