کد مقاله کد نشریه سال انتشار مقاله انگلیسی نسخه تمام متن
926449 921868 2013 7 صفحه PDF دانلود رایگان
عنوان انگلیسی مقاله ISI
A non-mentalistic cause-based heuristic in human social evaluations
موضوعات مرتبط
علوم زیستی و بیوفناوری علم عصب شناسی علوم اعصاب شناختی
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A non-mentalistic cause-based heuristic in human social evaluations
چکیده انگلیسی

In situations where an agent unintentionally causes harm to a victim, the agent’s (harmless) intention typically carries more weight than his/her (harmful) causal role. Therefore, healthy adults typically judge leniently agents responsible for an accident. Using animated cartoons, we show, however, that in the presence of a difficult concurrent task, this result is reversed: the agent’s harmless intention is given less weight than her harmful causal role, inducing participants to judge harshly the accidental agent. This was found even though cognitive load did not selectively impair the detection of intentions over causal roles. Not only is this finding evidence that the social/moral evaluation system relies on two dissociable components, but it also demonstrates that these components are asymmetrical, the causal component being more intuitive than the intentional component, and the full integration of the two requiring central cognitive resources.


► We studied how causal and intentional cues are integrated into moral judgment.
► Adults under normal or cognitive load conditions judged different situations of harm.
► In normal conditions, judgments are primarily based on agents’ intention.
► Under cognitive load, judgments are primarily based on agents’ causal roles.
► Morality is first guided by a cause-based heuristic; integrating intentions is costly.

ناشر
Database: Elsevier - ScienceDirect (ساینس دایرکت)
Journal: Cognition - Volume 126, Issue 2, February 2013, Pages 149–155
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