期刊
PSYCHOLOGICAL SCIENCE
卷 27, 期 8, 页码 1109-1122出版社
SAGE PUBLICATIONS INC
DOI: 10.1177/0956797616650875
关键词
cognitive development; inherence heuristic; sociomoral judgments; explanation; open data; open materials; preregistered
资金
- National Science Foundation [BCS-1530669]
People tend to judge what is typical as also good and appropriateas what ought to be. What accounts for the prevalence of these judgments, given that their validity is at best uncertain? We hypothesized that the tendency to reason from is to ought is due in part to a systematic bias in people's (nonmoral) explanations, whereby regularities (e.g., giving roses on Valentine's Day) are explained predominantly via inherent or intrinsic facts (e.g., roses are beautiful). In turn, these inherence-biased explanations lead to value-laden downstream conclusions (e.g., it is good to give roses). Consistent with this proposal, results from five studies (N = 629 children and adults) suggested that, from an early age, the bias toward inherence in explanations fosters inferences that imbue observed reality with value. Given that explanations fundamentally determine how people understand the world, the bias toward inherence in these judgments is likely to exert substantial influence over sociomoral understanding.
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