Jim A.C. Everett
Scholar

Jim A.C. Everett

Google Scholar ID: PzprVY8AAAAJ
University of Kent
moral psychologyexperimental philosophyutilitarianismbioethicsperson perception
Citations & Impact
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Citations
5,082
 
H-index
31
 
i10-index
43
 
Publications
20
 
Co-authors
0
 
Resume
Academic Achievements
  • Published in leading journals such as Psychological Review, Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, Bioethics, Nature Human Behavior, and Journal of Experimental Psychology: General; Received early career awards from the European Association of Social Psychology, Association for Psychological Science, and Society for Personality and Social Psychology; Joint-first-authored paper received the 2019 Wegner Theoretical Innovation Award; Won the University of Kent’s Starting Researcher Prize and the Philip Leverhulme Prize.
Research Experience
  • Current Reader (Associate Professor) at the University of Kent; Former Senior Lecturer (Assistant Professor) at the University of Kent; Former Lecturer (Assistant Professor) at the University of Kent; Marie-Sklodowska-Curie PostDoctoral Research Fellow at Leiden University; PostDoctoral Research Fellow at the University of Oxford; Fulbright Research Fellow at Harvard University.
Education
  • D.Phil in Experimental Psychology, 2017, University of Oxford; MSc in Psychological Research, 2013, University of Oxford; BSc in Psychology, Philosophy, and Physiology, 2012, University of Oxford.
Background
  • Research interests include moral judgment, perceptions of moral character, and the moral psychology of artificial intelligence. His work is deeply interdisciplinary, drawing from social psychology, philosophy, and evolutionary theory.
Miscellany
  • Interests include: person perception and moral character, moral psychology and trust in artificial intelligence, ethical challenges of moral machines, utilitarianism, speciesism, free will, and personal identity.