Jean-François Bonnefon
Biographic Data
| ID | 177841 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jean-François Bonnefon |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jean-François |
| FAMILY NAME | Bonnefon |
| SIGNATURE | BONNEFON J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4959-188X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 22 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 54 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 21 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2005 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Using generative AI to increase sceptics’ engagement with climate science
The impact of generative artificial intelligence on socioeconomic inequalities and policy making
Generative artificial intelligence (AI) has the potential to both exacerbate and ameliorate existing socioeconomic inequalities. In this article, we provide a state-of-the-art interdisciplinary overview of the potential impacts of generative AI on (mis)information and three information-intensive domains: work, education, and healthcare. Our goal is to highlight how generative AI could worsen existing inequalities while illuminating how AI may hel…
Fears about artificial intelligence across 20 countries and six domains of application
The frontier of artificial intelligence (AI) is constantly moving, raising fears and concerns whenever AI is deployed in a new occupation. Some of these fears are legitimate and should be addressed by AI developers-but others may result from psychological barriers, suppressing the uptake of a beneficial technology. Here, we show that country-level variations across occupations can be predicted by a psychological model at the individual level. Ind…
Machine culture
Bad machines corrupt good morals
Universals and variations in moral decisions made in 42 countries by 70,000 participants
When do people find it acceptable to sacrifice one life to save many? Cross-cultural studies suggested a complex pattern of universals and variations in the way people approach this question, but data were often based on small samples from a small number of countries outside of the Western world. Here we analyze responses to three sacrificial dilemmas by 70,000 participants in 10 languages and 42 countries. In every country, the three dilemmas di…
Anxiety‐induced miscalculations, more than differential inhibition of intuition, explain the gender gap in cognitive reflection
The Cognitive Reflection Test (CRT) is among the most common and well‐known instruments for measuring the propensity to engage reflective processing, in the context of the dual‐process theory of high‐level cognition. There is robust evidence that men perform better than women on this test—but we should be wary to conclude that men are more likely to engage in reflective processing than women. We consider several possible loci for the gender diffe…
Verbal Uncertainty
When communicating uncertain facts, about risky outcomes or about the likelihood of future prospects, one may use numerical probabilities (e.g. there is a 20% probability) or verbal probabilities (e.g. there is a small chance). The present chapter provides an overview of the research into verbal probabilities; a survey of the methods used to tackle the meaning of verbal probabilities and unveil their usage; and an overview of the key findings in …
Machine behaviour
Drivers are blamed more than their automated cars when both make mistakes
Causal understanding is not necessary for the improvement of culturally evolving technology
The Moral Machine experiment
The polite wiggle‐room effect in charity donation decisions
We extend research on charity donations by exploring an everyday tactic for increasing compliance: asking politely. We consider three possible effects of politeness on charity donations: a positive effect, a negative effect, and a wiggle‐room effect where the perception of the request is adjusted to decline donating without feeling selfish. Results from six experiments systematically supported the polite wiggle‐room effect. In hypothetical donati…
Moral Inferences
We argue that moral decision making is reasons-based, focusing on the idea that people encounter decisions as questions to be answered and that they process reasons to the extent that they can see them as putative answers to those questions. After introducing our topic, we sketch the erotetic reasons-based framework for decision making. We then describe three experiments that extend this framework to moral decision making in different question fr…
Psychological roadblocks to the adoption of self-driving vehicles
Adolescents gradually improve at detecting trustworthiness from the facial features of unknown adults
Politeness and Honesty Contribute Additively to the Interpretation of Scalar Expressions
Scalar terms have been the focus of much recent attention. People can interpret such terms narrowly, for example, interpreting A or B to convey A or B but not both, on the grounds that a speaker would have explicitly used a more informative term (i.e., and) had he or she been in a position to do so; or they can interpret such terms broadly ( A or B or both). Examined here are the effects of politeness contexts and self-rated honesty on people's i…
The psychology of reasoning about preferences and unconsequential decisions
Computer-mediated trust in self-interested expert recommendations
Modern Psychometrics for the Experimental Psychology of Reasoning: Modern Psychometrics for the Experimental Psychology of Reasoning
摘要: 推理测验与推理实验不同。推理测验用来衡量智商; 而推理实验则用来研究推理的心理过程。测验旨在找出能力的个体差异; 而实验则意在突出所有个体的一般性心理过程。近年来, 心理学中的推理已经发生了变化, 我们在理论进化方面简要地总结了如下这些变化:关注点从推理任务中的反应过程变为个体对不同任务做反应时的差异和其中稳定的反应模式, 开始考虑不同推理者的组织差异和数量差异(犹如不同游泳运动员的游泳动作和肌肉数量)。然而, 这些理论创新必须有精确的建模技术的支持。我们将以条件推理材料为例, 展示了现代心理测量方法可以帮我们解决理论创新中产生的三类主要的研究问题
An Overview of Possibilistic Handling of Default Reasoning, with Experimental Studies
Between-subject or within-subject measures of regret: Dilemma and solution
Causal understanding is not necessary for the improvement of culturally evolving technology
Psychological roadblocks to the adoption of self-driving vehicles
Politeness and Honesty Contribute Additively to the Interpretation of Scalar Expressions
Scalar terms have been the focus of much recent attention. People can interpret such terms narrowly, for example, interpreting A or B to convey A or B but not both, on the grounds that a speaker would have explicitly used a more informative term (i.e., and) had he or she been in a position to do so; or they can interpret such terms broadly ( A or B or both). Examined here are the effects of politeness contexts and self-rated honesty on people's i…
Machine culture
Bad machines corrupt good morals
Adolescents gradually improve at detecting trustworthiness from the facial features of unknown adults
Drivers are blamed more than their automated cars when both make mistakes
An Overview of Possibilistic Handling of Default Reasoning, with Experimental Studies
Between-subject or within-subject measures of regret: Dilemma and solution
Fears about artificial intelligence across 20 countries and six domains of application
The frontier of artificial intelligence (AI) is constantly moving, raising fears and concerns whenever AI is deployed in a new occupation. Some of these fears are legitimate and should be addressed by AI developers-but others may result from psychological barriers, suppressing the uptake of a beneficial technology. Here, we show that country-level variations across occupations can be predicted by a psychological model at the individual level. Ind…
Anxiety‐induced miscalculations, more than differential inhibition of intuition, explain the gender gap in cognitive reflection
The Cognitive Reflection Test (CRT) is among the most common and well‐known instruments for measuring the propensity to engage reflective processing, in the context of the dual‐process theory of high‐level cognition. There is robust evidence that men perform better than women on this test—but we should be wary to conclude that men are more likely to engage in reflective processing than women. We consider several possible loci for the gender diffe…
The psychology of reasoning about preferences and unconsequential decisions
An Overview of Possibilistic Handling of Default Reasoning, with Experimental Studies
Between-subject or within-subject measures of regret: Dilemma and solution
Computer-mediated trust in self-interested expert recommendations
Modern Psychometrics for the Experimental Psychology of Reasoning: Modern Psychometrics for the Experimental Psychology of Reasoning
摘要: 推理测验与推理实验不同。推理测验用来衡量智商; 而推理实验则用来研究推理的心理过程。测验旨在找出能力的个体差异; 而实验则意在突出所有个体的一般性心理过程。近年来, 心理学中的推理已经发生了变化, 我们在理论进化方面简要地总结了如下这些变化:关注点从推理任务中的反应过程变为个体对不同任务做反应时的差异和其中稳定的反应模式, 开始考虑不同推理者的组织差异和数量差异(犹如不同游泳运动员的游泳动作和肌肉数量)。然而, 这些理论创新必须有精确的建模技术的支持。我们将以条件推理材料为例, 展示了现代心理测量方法可以帮我们解决理论创新中产生的三类主要的研究问题
The psychology of reasoning about preferences and unconsequential decisions
Politeness and Honesty Contribute Additively to the Interpretation of Scalar Expressions
Scalar terms have been the focus of much recent attention. People can interpret such terms narrowly, for example, interpreting A or B to convey A or B but not both, on the grounds that a speaker would have explicitly used a more informative term (i.e., and) had he or she been in a position to do so; or they can interpret such terms broadly ( A or B or both). Examined here are the effects of politeness contexts and self-rated honesty on people's i…
Adolescents gradually improve at detecting trustworthiness from the facial features of unknown adults
Moral Inferences
We argue that moral decision making is reasons-based, focusing on the idea that people encounter decisions as questions to be answered and that they process reasons to the extent that they can see them as putative answers to those questions. After introducing our topic, we sketch the erotetic reasons-based framework for decision making. We then describe three experiments that extend this framework to moral decision making in different question fr…
Psychological roadblocks to the adoption of self-driving vehicles
The Moral Machine experiment
The polite wiggle‐room effect in charity donation decisions
We extend research on charity donations by exploring an everyday tactic for increasing compliance: asking politely. We consider three possible effects of politeness on charity donations: a positive effect, a negative effect, and a wiggle‐room effect where the perception of the request is adjusted to decline donating without feeling selfish. Results from six experiments systematically supported the polite wiggle‐room effect. In hypothetical donati…
Verbal Uncertainty
When communicating uncertain facts, about risky outcomes or about the likelihood of future prospects, one may use numerical probabilities (e.g. there is a 20% probability) or verbal probabilities (e.g. there is a small chance). The present chapter provides an overview of the research into verbal probabilities; a survey of the methods used to tackle the meaning of verbal probabilities and unveil their usage; and an overview of the key findings in …
Machine behaviour
Drivers are blamed more than their automated cars when both make mistakes
Causal understanding is not necessary for the improvement of culturally evolving technology
Universals and variations in moral decisions made in 42 countries by 70,000 participants
When do people find it acceptable to sacrifice one life to save many? Cross-cultural studies suggested a complex pattern of universals and variations in the way people approach this question, but data were often based on small samples from a small number of countries outside of the Western world. Here we analyze responses to three sacrificial dilemmas by 70,000 participants in 10 languages and 42 countries. In every country, the three dilemmas di…
Anxiety‐induced miscalculations, more than differential inhibition of intuition, explain the gender gap in cognitive reflection
The Cognitive Reflection Test (CRT) is among the most common and well‐known instruments for measuring the propensity to engage reflective processing, in the context of the dual‐process theory of high‐level cognition. There is robust evidence that men perform better than women on this test—but we should be wary to conclude that men are more likely to engage in reflective processing than women. We consider several possible loci for the gender diffe…
Bad machines corrupt good morals
Machine culture
The impact of generative artificial intelligence on socioeconomic inequalities and policy making
Generative artificial intelligence (AI) has the potential to both exacerbate and ameliorate existing socioeconomic inequalities. In this article, we provide a state-of-the-art interdisciplinary overview of the potential impacts of generative AI on (mis)information and three information-intensive domains: work, education, and healthcare. Our goal is to highlight how generative AI could worsen existing inequalities while illuminating how AI may hel…
Fears about artificial intelligence across 20 countries and six domains of application
The frontier of artificial intelligence (AI) is constantly moving, raising fears and concerns whenever AI is deployed in a new occupation. Some of these fears are legitimate and should be addressed by AI developers-but others may result from psychological barriers, suppressing the uptake of a beneficial technology. Here, we show that country-level variations across occupations can be predicted by a psychological model at the individual level. Ind…
Using generative AI to increase sceptics’ engagement with climate science
Psychology (17 works) · Computer Science (15 works) · Social Psychology (10 works) · Psychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment (8 works) · Cognitive psychology (7 works) · Decision-Making and Behavioral Economics (6 works) · Epistemology (6 works) · Ethics and Social Impacts of AI (6 works) · Political science (6 works) · Data science (5 works)