Hugo Viciana

Hi there. I am an Emergia talent attraction research fellow working at the intersection of philosophy and the cognitive and behavioral sciences.

I am currently based at the Departamento de Filosofía, Lógica y Filosofía de la Ciencia, Universidad de Sevilla. Previously I have held research or teaching positions at the University of Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, the Institute for Advanced Social Studies of the Spanish National Research Council (IESA-CSIC), the Instituto de Filosofia (IFS-CSIC), the Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD-Paris), the Psychology Department of the University of the Balearic Islands, and the University of Malaga. I have also been a visiting researcher at several institutions including the Center for Behavior, Evolution, and Culture at the University of California Los Angeles; the Social Norms group at the Philosophy, Politics, and Economics Program at UPenn; and the Sage School of Philosophy at Cornell University.

You can scroll down and check some of my publications or visit ResearchGate to find preprints of most of them. And here is a list of some previous and current projects on my public profile on Open Science Framework. Feel free to write me a mail [name.surname@gmail] or private message me in Mastodon or Bsky.

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Aguiar, Fernando; Gaitán, Antonio; Viciana, Hugo

Una introducción a la ética experimental: Problemas, enfoques y métodos Book

Ediciones Cátedra, 2020.

Abstract | Links | BibTeX | Tags: Cooperation, Dissent and disputes, Effects of teaching ethics, Experimental Philosophy, Fairness, Metaethics, Moral diversity, Philosophy Teaching, Social norms, Utilitarianism

Viciana, Hugo; Hannikainen, Ivar R; Torres, Antonio Gaitan

The dual nature of partisan prejudice: Morality and identity in a multiparty system Journal Article

In: PloS one, vol. 14, no. 7, pp. e0219509, 2019.

Abstract | Links | BibTeX | Tags: Affective polarization, Experimental Philosophy, Metaethics, Moral absolutism, Outgroup misperception, Partyism

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title = {The dual nature of partisan prejudice: Morality and identity in a multiparty system},

author = {Hugo Viciana and Ivar R Hannikainen and Antonio Gaitan Torres},

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date = {2019-01-01},

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publisher = {Public Library of Science San Francisco, CA USA},

abstract = {Rising hostility between members of opposing political factions has gained considerable attention in both academic and popular press. The adverse effects of this phenomenon are widely recognized, but its psychological antecedents remain the focus of ongoing debate in political psychology. Past research has honed in on two conflicting explanations: one highlights the extent to which people self-define as supporters of particular parties or candidates (the identity view), and another points toward the intensity with which they disagree on substantive matters of policy (the issues view). A nationally representative survey of 1051 eligible Spanish voters yielded support for both explanations. The perceived magnitude and nature of disagreement were associated with increased partisan prejudice, while controlling for partisan identification. Path analyses revealed that issue-based prejudice was more pronounced among ideologically extreme agents (β = 0.237, 95% CI [0.174, 0.300]) than toward extreme targets (β = 0.140, 95% CI [0.078, 0.201]), and replicated recent findings that identity-based prejudice is motivated primarily by non-instrumental factors (β = 0.286, 95% CI [0.230, 0.337]). Together, these results indicate that discrimination across party lines responds to two fundamentally distinct, though at times co-occurring, imperatives: to coalesce in ideologically homogeneous communities, and to protect one’s sense of partisan identity.},

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Viciana, Hugo

¿Por qué somos morales? Introducción a la ética naturalista Book

Amazon, Kindle Publishing, 2014.

Abstract | Links | BibTeX | Tags: Cooperation, Emotions, Experimental Philosophy, Machiavellian tit-for-tat, Market for morality, Metaethics, Moral judgment, Moral psychology, Moral wiggle room, Self Deception, Situationism, Status hierarchies