➤ May 2023
The paper “Temptation and apathy”, coauthored with S. Berthelette, G. Fernández, A. Anaya and D. Rodríguez, is forthcoming at Oxford Studies in Agency and Responsibility!
➤ February 2023
Our paper “What is a subliminal technique? An ethical perspective on AI-driven influence”, coauthored with the Imperial REDI team, was just accepted at the IEEE ETHICS-2023 conference! It will be published in the conference proceedings.
➤ Also February 2023
Our paper “Moralization and self-control strategy selection“, coauthored with Sam Murray and Felipe de Brigard, was just accepted for publication at Psychonomic Bulletin and Review!
➤ Also February 2023!
My paper “What is the feeling of effort about?” was just accepted for publication at the Australasian Journal of Philosophy!
➤ January 2023
I joined Reform Scholars, a network for academics to share public policy insights in the UK. I’ll be writing about the ethics of government’s use of AI.
2023
2022
➤ November 2022
My project Self-Control in Context has been approved for funding by the John Templeton Foundation!
➤ November 2022
Our paper “Efforts and their Feelings”, coauthored with Olivier Massin, was just accepted for publication at Philosophy Compass!
➤ September 2022
Just started my new position as research associate at Imperial College London’s Positive Computing Lab.
➤ August 2022
At Neuchâtel we held the Nature and Value of Effort workshop. It was great to share with a group of wonderful interdisciplinary researchers of effort!
➤ July 2022
We presented our paper “Positive and negative self-control” at this year’s SPP/ESPP conference.
➤ May 2022
Our paper “Will-powered” (co-authored with Z. Irving, J. Bridges, A. Glasser, and C. Sripada) was just accepted at Cognition!
➤ April 2022
We have been invited to present our paper “Positive and negative self-control” at this year’s SPP/ESPP conference.
➤ March 2022
We presented our paper “Positive and negative self-control” at the super fun New Orleans Workshop on Agency and Responsibility.
2021
➤ September 2021
I gave my talk “What is the feeling of effort about?” at the University of Geneva’s Thumos group.
➤ July 2021
The paper "What's inside is all that counts? The contours of everyday thinking about self-control", cowritten with S. Murray, L. Chartrand, and S. Barbosa, was just accepted for publication at Review of Philosophy and Psychology! Preprint here.
➤ June 2021
The Topoi special issue 'Habitual Action, Automaticity and Control' I edited with F. Felletti was published! See our introduction to the issue here.
➤ May 2021
The paper 'Perceiving utilitarian gradients: heart rate variability and self-regulatory effort in the moral dilemma task' (coauthored with A. Rosas, J. Martínez, D. Aguilar, J. Caicedo and D.M. Aponte) was just accepted by Social Neuroscience! Preprint here.
➤ April 2021
Striving and Doing, a workshop on effort and action, took place April 21–23. We had talks by amazing guests and wonderful discussion sessions. The workshop was organized by Olivier Massin and me. You can find abstracts and videos of all the talks here.
➤ February 2021
The paper “Intentional mind-wandering as intentional omission: The surrealist method” (coauthored with S. Arango) has been accepted for publication at Synthese. pdf here.
➤ January 2021
My paper “The skill of self-control” has been accepted for publication at Synthese. .pdf here.
2020
➤ December 2020
My piece “Willpower needs tactical skill” (commenting on G. Ainslie’s Willpower with and without effort) will appear in Behavioral and Brain Sciences.
➤ November 2020
We received a collaboration award from Free Will LATAM to pursue the project “Self-control and regulatory flexibility” with S. Berthelette, G. Fernández, A. Anaya, D. Rodríguez, and M. Inzlicht.