Kathryn B. Francis PhD
LECTURER IN PSYCHOLOGY
Publications
SELECTED PAPERS
Laakasuo, M., Kunnari, A., Rauhala, S., Drosinou, M., Halonen, J., Lehtonen, N., Koverola, M., Repo, M., Sundvall, J., Visala, A., Francis, K. B., & Palomäki, J. (2022). Moral Psychology of Nursing Robots: Exploring the Role of Robots in Dilemmas of Patient Autonomy. European Journal of Social Psychology, doi:10.1002/ejsp.2890 (in production)
Francis, K. B. & McNabb, C. B. (2022). Moral decision-making during COVID-19: Moral judgements, moralisation, and everyday behaviour. Frontiers in Psychology, doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2021.769177
Francis, K. B., Gummerum, M., Ganis, G., Howard, I. S., & Terbeck, S. (2019). Alcohol, empathy, and morality: acute effects of alcohol consumption on affective empathy and moral decision-making . Psychopharmacology, doi.org/10.1007/s00213-019-05314-z
Francis, K. B., Beaman, P., & Hansen, N. (2019). Stakes, scales, and skepticism. Ergo, In Press
Francis, K. B., Gummerum, M., Ganis, G., Howard, I. S., & Terbeck, S. (2018). Virtual morality in the helping professions: Simulated action and resilience. British Journal of Psychology, 109, 442-465. doi: 10.1111/bjop.12276
Francis, K. B., Terbeck, S., Briazu, R, A., Haines, A., Gummerum, M., Ganis, G., & Howard, I. S. (2017). Simulating moral actions: An investigation of personal force in virtual moral dilemmas. Scientific Reports, 7. doi: 10.1038/s41598-017-13909-9. PRESS AWARD (Scientific Reports Top 100)
Francis, K. B., Howard, C., Howard, I., Gummerum, M., Ganis, G., Anderson, G., & Terbeck, S. (2016). Virtual morality: Transitioning from moral judgment to moral action? Plos One. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0164374. PRESS
FURTHER PAPERS
Muda, R., Pienkosz, D., Francis, K. B., & Bialek, M. (2020). The moral foreign language effect is stable across presentation modalities. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, doi: 10.1177/1747021820935072. Read here.
Hansen, N., Porter, J. D., & Francis, K. B., (2019). A corpus study of 'know': On the verification of philosophers' frequency claims about language . Episteme, doi:10.1017/epi.2019.15
Francis, K. B.*, Haines, A.*, & Briazu, R. A.* (2017). Thinkering through experiments: Nurturing transdisciplinary approaches to the design of testing tools [Special Issue]. AVANT, 8, 107–115. doi: 10.26913/80s02017.0111.0011
Oztop, P.*, Loesche, F.*, Maranan, D. S.*, Francis, K. B.*, Tyagi, V., & Torre, I. (2017). (Not so) dangerous liaisons: A framework for evaluating collaborative research projects [Special Issue]. AVANT, 8, 167–179. doi: 10.26913/80s02017.0111.0016
BOOK CHAPTERS
Loesche, F., & Francis, K. B. (2020). Creativity and Destruction. In Runco, M. and Pritzker, S. (Eds), Encyclopedia of Creativity, 3rd Edition, vol. 1. Elsevier, Academic Press, pp. 239-245. ISBN: 9780128156148
Torre, I., Łucznik, K., Francis, K. B., Maranan, D. S., Loesche, F., Figueroa Jr., R. B., Sakuta, A., Zaksaite, T. (2019). Openness across disciplines: Reflecting on the ColLaboratoire summer school. Forthcoming in: Conrad, D. and Prinsloo, P. (Eds), Ecologies of Open: Inclusion, Intersections, and Interstices in Education.
Terbeck, S., & Francis, K. B., (2018). We should if we could, but we cant. Experimental problems with moral enhancement. In: Hauskeller, M. (Ed.), Moral Enhancement. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
REVIEWS & CONFERENCE PAPERS
Francis, K. B. (2015, October). [Review of the book Making mind: Moral sense and consciousness in philosophy, science, and literature, by G. F. Tague]. Leonardo, 48, 493-494.
Briazu, R.A*., Francis, K. B*., & Haines, A*. (2016). The affective embodiment of testing tools and their influence on experimental outcomes. Proceedings of Off The Lip 2015, p. 21-34. https://pearl.plymouth.ac.uk//handle/10026.1/4271