Nora Heinzelmann
Biographic Data
| ID | 5965934 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Nora Heinzelmann |
| GIVEN NAMES | Nora |
| FAMILY NAME | Heinzelmann |
| SIGNATURE | HEINZELMANN N |
| AFFILIATIONS | Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4083-3739 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 7 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
The ethics and moral psychology of HPV vaccination
Vaccine hesitancy is a major threat to public health worldwide. Debates about vaccines are often moralized; however, how ethics and ethical judgments relate to vaccination intention remains underexplored. Here, we identify ethically relevant concerns from the academic literature that we operationalize for a pre-registered survey to study how ethical judgments relate to parents’ intentions to vaccinate their children against HPV. We also investiga…
Moral education and the psychology of moral discourse
Discourse has since Socratic times been regarded as core elements of a moral education that not only transfers moral knowledge but also hones moral skills and character. However, discourse may promote questionable phenomena like polarisation and could thereby give rise to conspiracy theories, hate crimes, and riots. Thus, discourse may undermine rather than promote moral character, moral goods, and moral skills. The present article draws on empir…
Extremists are more confident
Metacognitive mental states are mental states about mental states. For example, I may be uncertain whether my belief is correct. In social discourse, an interlocutor’s metacognitive certainty may constitute evidence about the reliability of their testimony. For example, if a speaker is certain that their belief is correct, then we may take this as evidence in favour of their belief or its content. This paper argues that, if metacognitive certaint…
Rationality is Not Coherence
According to a popular account, rationality is a kind of coherence of an agent’s mental states and, more specifically, a matter of fulfilling norms of coherence. For example, in order to be rational, an agent is required to intend to do what they judge they ought to and can do. This norm has been called ‘Enkrasia’. Another norm requires that, ceteris paribus, an agent retain their intention over time. This has been called ‘Persistence of Intentio…
Deliberation and confidence change
We argue that social deliberation may increase an agent’s confidence and credence under certain circumstances. An agent considers a proposition H and assigns a probability to it. However, she is not fully confident that she herself is reliable in this assignment. She then endorses H during deliberation with another person, expecting him to raise serious objections. To her surprise, however, the other person does not raise any objections to H. How…
Moral discourse boosts confidence in moral judgments
The so-called “conciliatory” norm in epistemology and meta-ethics requires that an agent, upon encountering peer disagreement with her judgment, lower her confidence about that judgment. But whether agents actually abide by this norm is unclear. Although confidence is excessively researched in the empirical sciences, possible effects of disagreement on confidence have been understudied. Here, we target this lacuna, reporting a study that measured…
Deontology defended
Deontology defended
Moral discourse boosts confidence in moral judgments
The so-called “conciliatory” norm in epistemology and meta-ethics requires that an agent, upon encountering peer disagreement with her judgment, lower her confidence about that judgment. But whether agents actually abide by this norm is unclear. Although confidence is excessively researched in the empirical sciences, possible effects of disagreement on confidence have been understudied. Here, we target this lacuna, reporting a study that measured…
Deliberation and confidence change
We argue that social deliberation may increase an agent’s confidence and credence under certain circumstances. An agent considers a proposition H and assigns a probability to it. However, she is not fully confident that she herself is reliable in this assignment. She then endorses H during deliberation with another person, expecting him to raise serious objections. To her surprise, however, the other person does not raise any objections to H. How…
Rationality is Not Coherence
According to a popular account, rationality is a kind of coherence of an agent’s mental states and, more specifically, a matter of fulfilling norms of coherence. For example, in order to be rational, an agent is required to intend to do what they judge they ought to and can do. This norm has been called ‘Enkrasia’. Another norm requires that, ceteris paribus, an agent retain their intention over time. This has been called ‘Persistence of Intentio…
Extremists are more confident
Metacognitive mental states are mental states about mental states. For example, I may be uncertain whether my belief is correct. In social discourse, an interlocutor’s metacognitive certainty may constitute evidence about the reliability of their testimony. For example, if a speaker is certain that their belief is correct, then we may take this as evidence in favour of their belief or its content. This paper argues that, if metacognitive certaint…
Moral education and the psychology of moral discourse
Discourse has since Socratic times been regarded as core elements of a moral education that not only transfers moral knowledge but also hones moral skills and character. However, discourse may promote questionable phenomena like polarisation and could thereby give rise to conspiracy theories, hate crimes, and riots. Thus, discourse may undermine rather than promote moral character, moral goods, and moral skills. The present article draws on empir…
The ethics and moral psychology of HPV vaccination
Vaccine hesitancy is a major threat to public health worldwide. Debates about vaccines are often moralized; however, how ethics and ethical judgments relate to vaccination intention remains underexplored. Here, we identify ethically relevant concerns from the academic literature that we operationalize for a pre-registered survey to study how ethical judgments relate to parents’ intentions to vaccinate their children against HPV. We also investiga…
Epistemology (6 works) · Philosophy (6 works) · Psychology (5 works) · Psychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment (5 works) · Social Psychology (4 works) · Misinformation and Its Impacts (3 works) · Emotions and Moral Behavior (2 works) · Epistemology, Ethics, and Metaphysics (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Moral disengagement (2 works)