About
Dr. Jim A.C. Everett is a Reader (Associate Professor) in Psychology at the University of Kent’s School of Psychology, specializing in moral judgment, perceptions of moral character, and the moral psychology of artificial intelligence. He completed his BA, MSc, and D.Phil at the University of Oxford, followed by a Fulbright Fellowship at Harvard University and a Marie-Sklodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellowship at Leiden University.
- Current roles: Reader (Apr 2022–Present), Senior Lecturer (Oct 2021–Apr 2022), Lecturer (Apr 2019–Oct 2021)
- Key grants: £300,000 ESRC New Investigator Grant, £100,000 Philip Leverhulme Prize, €1.7M ERC Starting Grant
His research spans moral psychology, AI ethics, utilitarianism, and speciesism. He investigates trust in artificial agents, moral conformity in digital environments, and the psychological underpinnings of free will beliefs. His 15 most recent publications (2018–2025) reveal interdisciplinary work intersecting social psychology, philosophy, and AI ethics.
Scientific honors include early career awards from the European Association of Social Psychology (2020), Association for Psychological Science (2021), and Society for Personality and Social Psychology (2021). His 2018 Psychological Review paper on two-dimensional utilitarianism received the Wegner Theoretical Innovation Award (2019).
He teaches advanced courses in social psychology, including PSYC6392 (Personality & Social Psychology), PSYC6530 (Social Psychology of Justice & Morality), and PSYC8600 (Political Psychology). He supervises PhD students in moral psychology topics through the University of Kent.
