S Matthew Liao
Biographic Data
| ID | 8228115 |
|---|---|
| NAME | S Matthew Liao |
| GIVEN NAMES | S Matthew |
| FAMILY NAME | Liao |
| SIGNATURE | LIAO S M |
| AFFILIATIONS | New York University |
| ORCID | 0009-0007-7894-3737 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 11 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2007 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
The effect of emotional expression on age estimates is modulated by face age and participant age
Observers can infer a person's age from the face, but not perfectly, and emotional expressions have been shown to affect these judgments. However, the effect of expressions on age perception is still not well understood. In this study, we first asked young Asian participants to estimate the age of young, middle-aged, and older White faces, showing neutral, happy, and angry expressions (Experiment 1), and additionally recruited young and older Asi…
Neural correlates of aggression outcome expectation and their association with aggression: A surface-based morphometry study
Our findings indicate that the cortical thickness in the temporal lobes, especially the left inferior temporal gyrus, plays a vital role in aggression outcome expectation and aggression. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2026 APA, all rights reserved)
Genetic Information, the Principle of Rescue, and Special Obligations
In “Genetic Privacy, Disease Prevention, and the Principle of Rescue,” Madison Kilbride argues that patients have a duty to warn biological family members about clinically actionable adverse genetic findings. The duty does not stem from the special obligations that we may have to family members, she argues, but rather follows from the principle of rescue, which she understands as the idea that one ought to prevent, reduce, or mitigate the risk of…
Précis for The Right to Be Loved
Rightholding, Demandingness of Love, and Parental Licensing
Current Controversies in Bioethics
Philosophical Foundations of Human Rights
What makes something a human right? What is the relationship between the moral foundations of human rights and human rights law? What are the difficulties of appealing to human rights? This book offers a survey of current thinking on the philosophical foundations of human rights. Divided into four parts, this book focuses first on the moral grounds of human rights, for example in our dignity, agency, interests or needs. Secondly, it looks at the …
The Philosophical Foundations of Human Rights: An Overview
The introduction introduces the history of the concept of human rights and its philosophical genealogy. It raises questions of the nature of human rights, the grounds of human rights, difference between proposed and actual human rights, and scepticism surrounding the very idea of human rights. In the course of this discussion, it concludes that the diversity of positions on human rights is a sign of the intellectual, cultural, and political ferti…
Human Rights as Fundamental Conditions for a Good Life
This chapter articulates and defends the Fundamental Conditions Approach to grounding human rights, which argues that human beings have human rights to so-called fundamental conditions (i.e. goods, capacities, and options) for pursuing a good life. It first explains the meaning of the fundamental conditions for pursuing a good life and why human beings have human rights to these conditions. It then demonstrates how this approach can explain many …
Political and Naturalistic Conceptions of Human Rights: A False Polemic?
What are human rights? According to one longstanding account, the Naturalistic Conception of human rights, human rights are those that we have simply in virtue of being human. In recent years, however, a new and purportedly alternative conception of human rights has become increasingly popular. This is the so-called Political Conception of human rights, the proponents of which include John Rawls, Charles Beitz, and Joseph Raz. In this paper we ar…
The Basis of Human Moral Status
Agency and Human Rights
What grounds human rights? How do we determine that something is a human right? James Griffin has persuasively argued that the notion of agency should determine the content of human rights. However, Griffin's agency account faces the question of why agency should be the sole ground for human rights. For example, can Griffin's notion of agency by itself adequately explain such human rights as that against torture? Or, has Griffin offered a plausib…
The Idea of a Duty to Love
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The Idea of a Duty to Love
Agency and Human Rights
What grounds human rights? How do we determine that something is a human right? James Griffin has persuasively argued that the notion of agency should determine the content of human rights. However, Griffin's agency account faces the question of why agency should be the sole ground for human rights. For example, can Griffin's notion of agency by itself adequately explain such human rights as that against torture? Or, has Griffin offered a plausib…
The Basis of Human Moral Status
Political and Naturalistic Conceptions of Human Rights: A False Polemic?
What are human rights? According to one longstanding account, the Naturalistic Conception of human rights, human rights are those that we have simply in virtue of being human. In recent years, however, a new and purportedly alternative conception of human rights has become increasingly popular. This is the so-called Political Conception of human rights, the proponents of which include John Rawls, Charles Beitz, and Joseph Raz. In this paper we ar…
Philosophical Foundations of Human Rights
What makes something a human right? What is the relationship between the moral foundations of human rights and human rights law? What are the difficulties of appealing to human rights? This book offers a survey of current thinking on the philosophical foundations of human rights. Divided into four parts, this book focuses first on the moral grounds of human rights, for example in our dignity, agency, interests or needs. Secondly, it looks at the …
The Philosophical Foundations of Human Rights: An Overview
The introduction introduces the history of the concept of human rights and its philosophical genealogy. It raises questions of the nature of human rights, the grounds of human rights, difference between proposed and actual human rights, and scepticism surrounding the very idea of human rights. In the course of this discussion, it concludes that the diversity of positions on human rights is a sign of the intellectual, cultural, and political ferti…
Human Rights as Fundamental Conditions for a Good Life
This chapter articulates and defends the Fundamental Conditions Approach to grounding human rights, which argues that human beings have human rights to so-called fundamental conditions (i.e. goods, capacities, and options) for pursuing a good life. It first explains the meaning of the fundamental conditions for pursuing a good life and why human beings have human rights to these conditions. It then demonstrates how this approach can explain many …
Current Controversies in Bioethics
Précis for The Right to Be Loved
Rightholding, Demandingness of Love, and Parental Licensing
Genetic Information, the Principle of Rescue, and Special Obligations
In “Genetic Privacy, Disease Prevention, and the Principle of Rescue,” Madison Kilbride argues that patients have a duty to warn biological family members about clinically actionable adverse genetic findings. The duty does not stem from the special obligations that we may have to family members, she argues, but rather follows from the principle of rescue, which she understands as the idea that one ought to prevent, reduce, or mitigate the risk of…
The effect of emotional expression on age estimates is modulated by face age and participant age
Observers can infer a person's age from the face, but not perfectly, and emotional expressions have been shown to affect these judgments. However, the effect of expressions on age perception is still not well understood. In this study, we first asked young Asian participants to estimate the age of young, middle-aged, and older White faces, showing neutral, happy, and angry expressions (Experiment 1), and additionally recruited young and older Asi…
Neural correlates of aggression outcome expectation and their association with aggression: A surface-based morphometry study
Our findings indicate that the cortical thickness in the temporal lobes, especially the left inferior temporal gyrus, plays a vital role in aggression outcome expectation and aggression. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2026 APA, all rights reserved)
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