Kathryn B. Francis PhD
LECTURER IN PSYCHOLOGY
Publications
SELECTED PAPERS
Ioannidou, M., Lesk, V., Stewart-Knox, B,. & Francis, K. B. (2024). 'Don’t mind milk? The role of animal suffering, speciesism, and guilt in the denial of mind and moral status of dairy cows'. Food Quality and Preference. doi.org/10.1016/j.foodqual.2023.105082
Laakasuo, M*., Sundvall, J*., Francis, K. B*., Drosinou, M*., Hannikainen, I*., Kunnari, A*., Palomäki, J*., (2023). 'Would you exchange your soul for immortality?—existential meaning and afterlife beliefs predict mind upload approval'. Frontiers in Psychology. doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2023.1254846 *joint first-authorship
Ioannidou, M., Lesk, V., Stewart-Knox, B., & Francis, K. B. (2023). Feeling morally troubled about meat, dairy, egg, and fish consumption: Dissonance reduction strategies among different dietary groups. Appetite. doi.org/10.1016/j.appet.2023.107024
Ioannidou, M., Lesk, V., Stewart-Knox, B., & Francis, K. B. (2023). Moral emotions and justifying beliefs about meat, fish, dairy and egg consumption: A comparative study of dietary groups. Appetite. doi: 10.1016/j.appet.2023.106544
Laakasuo, M., Palomäki, J., Kunnari, A., Rauhala, S., Drosinou, M., Halonen, J., Lehtonen, N., Koverola, M., Repo, M., Sundvall, J., Visala, A., & Francis, K. B., (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
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
Zahiu, A., Mihailov, E., Earp, B., Francis, K. B., & Savulescu, J. (2023). Empathy training through virtual reality: Moral enhancement with freedom to fall? Ethics and Information Technology. 10.1007/s10676-023-09723-9
Francis, K. B., & Beaman, C. P. (2023). The role of confidence in knowledge ascriptions: an evidence-seeking approach. Synthese. doi: 10.1007/s11229-023-04236-w
Terry, J., Ross, R. M., Nagy, T., Salgado, M., Garrido-Vásquez, P., Sarfo, J. O., ... Francis, K. B., ... & Rahajeng, U. W. (2023). Data from an international multi-centre study of statistics and mathematics anxieties and related variables in university students (the SMARVUS dataset). Journal of Open Psychology Data, 11(1). https://doi.org/10.5334/jopd.80
Fisher, S. A., Francis, K. B., & Townsend, L. (2023). An empirical investigation of intuitions about uptake. Inquiry. doi: 10.1080/0020174X.2023.2220359
Hansen, N., Francis, K. B., & Greening. H. (2023). Socratic questionnaires. Oxford Studies in Experimental Philosophy.
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
Francis, K. B., (2023). Virtual Reality in Experimental Moral Psychology Identifying and Understanding Judgment-Action Discrepancy. In Kissel, A. and Ramirez, E. J. (Eds), Exploring Extended Realities, 1st Edition. Routledge. ISBN: 9781003359494
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.