Research

For drafts of papers under review or works in progress, please email me! I am happy to share anything that is in a sharable state, and happy to chat about anything that’s not.

Publications

Journal Articles:

Soter, L.K., Gelman, S.A., & Yang, F. (In press). What we owe to ourselves: Investigating people’s evaluations of obligations to the self. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. [penultimate]

Soter, L.K. (Forthcoming). Reframing epistemic partiality: A case for acceptance. Journal of Ethics and Social Philosophy. [penultimate]

Soter, L.K., Berg, M.K., Kross, E., & Gelman, S.A. (2025). How peer relationships influence adolescents’ reasoning about theft-based moral transgressions. Developmental Psychology. [penultimate] [published]

Soter, L.K. (2025). A defense of back-end doxastic voluntarism. Noûs. [penultimate] [published]

Soter, L.K., Ramirez, V., & Sinnott-Armstrong, W. (2025). U.S. Citizens’ judgments of moral transgressions against fellow citizens, refugees, and undocumented immigrants. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology: Interpersonal Relations and Group Processes. [published]

Soter, L.K. (2023). Acceptance and the ethics of belief. Philosophical Studies. [penultimate] [published]

Soter, L.K., Berg, M.K., Gelman, S.A., & Kross, E. (2021). What we would (but shouldn’t) do for those we love: Universalism versus partiality in responding to others’ moral transgressions. Cognition. [published]

Boutyline, Andrei, & Soter, L. K. (2021). Cultural schemas: What they are, how to find them, and what to do once you’ve caught one. American Sociological Review. [published]

Nordbeck, P. C., Soter, L. K., Viklund, J. S., Beckmann, E. A., Kallen, R. W., Chemero, A. P., & Richardson, M. J. (2019). Effects of task constraint on action dynamics. Cognitive Systems Research. [published]

Putnam, A. L., Ross, M. Q., Soter, L. K., & Roediger III, H. L. (2018). Collective narcissism: Americans exaggerate the role of their home state in appraising US history. Psychological Science. [published]

Book Chapters:

Soter, L.K. (Forthcoming.) “Belief’s Guidance Function: Mechanisms, Control, and Categorization on the Output-side of Belief.” in The Oxford Handbook of the Cognitive Science of Belief, eds. Neil van Leeuwen and Tania Lombrozo. [penultimate]

Papers in (various stages of) prep:

  • “What could a componential model of belief look like?”

  • “How (not) to think about bad believers” (with Shanna Slank)

  • “Evidence for cognitive control mechanisms in a belief-suppression task” (with Chandra Sripada, Alex Weigard, Mike Angstad, and Walter Sinnott-Armstrong)

  • “Competing perspectives on ‘belief’ in the ethics of belief”

  • “Investigating children’s theory of belief change” (with Pearl Li and Tamar Kushnir)

  • “Relational influences on young children’s moral judgments” (with Yeonjee Bae, Susan Gelman, and Felix Warneken)