AG Heinzelmann, 17.10.2025 Are the concepts of truth and lying shared across cultures?

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Alex Wiegmann is a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Georg‑Elias‑Müller Institute for Psychology, University of Göttingen and a Researcher at the University of Granada. He is part of a junior research group called EXTRA “Experimental Philosophy and the Method of Cases” until the end of this year. His research currently focuses on experimental philosophy, but he wrote his PhD on moral psychology and developed a causal model of transfer effects between moral dilemmas.

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Louisa  M. Reins is a cognitive psychology researcher at the University of Göttingen, specializing in the intersections of moral psychology and experimental philosophy. Her work focuses on the folk concept of lying, exploring how people judge deceptive implicatures, presuppositions, and actions across modalities and cultures, where she has collaborated together with Alex Wiegmann on various projects. Their scholarly output also includes investigations into partisan bias in judgments of misinformation, the experimental philosophy of lying, and the moral and legal reasoning capabilities of large language models.

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