How to Tell a Dualist?
Cogn Sci. 2023 Nov;47(11):e13380. doi: 10.1111/cogs.13380.ABSTRACTPeople exhibit conflicting intuitions concerning the mind/body links. Here, I explore a novel explanation for these inconsistencies: Dualism is a violable constraint that interacts with Essentialism. Two experiments probe these interactions. In Experiment 1, participants evaluated the emergence of psychological traits in either a replica of one's body, or in the afterlife-after the body's demise. In line with Dualism, epistemic (i.e., disembodied) traits (e.g., knowing the contrast between good/bad) were considered more likely to emerge (relative to sensorim...
Source: Cognitive Science - November 22, 2023 Category: Neuroscience Authors: Iris Berent Source Type: research
How to Tell a Dualist?
Cogn Sci. 2023 Nov;47(11):e13380. doi: 10.1111/cogs.13380.ABSTRACTPeople exhibit conflicting intuitions concerning the mind/body links. Here, I explore a novel explanation for these inconsistencies: Dualism is a violable constraint that interacts with Essentialism. Two experiments probe these interactions. In Experiment 1, participants evaluated the emergence of psychological traits in either a replica of one's body, or in the afterlife-after the body's demise. In line with Dualism, epistemic (i.e., disembodied) traits (e.g., knowing the contrast between good/bad) were considered more likely to emerge (relative to sensorim...
Source: Cognitive Science - November 22, 2023 Category: Neuroscience Authors: Iris Berent Source Type: research
How to Tell a Dualist?
Cogn Sci. 2023 Nov;47(11):e13380. doi: 10.1111/cogs.13380.ABSTRACTPeople exhibit conflicting intuitions concerning the mind/body links. Here, I explore a novel explanation for these inconsistencies: Dualism is a violable constraint that interacts with Essentialism. Two experiments probe these interactions. In Experiment 1, participants evaluated the emergence of psychological traits in either a replica of one's body, or in the afterlife-after the body's demise. In line with Dualism, epistemic (i.e., disembodied) traits (e.g., knowing the contrast between good/bad) were considered more likely to emerge (relative to sensorim...
Source: Cognitive Science - November 22, 2023 Category: Neuroscience Authors: Iris Berent Source Type: research
How to Tell a Dualist?
Cogn Sci. 2023 Nov;47(11):e13380. doi: 10.1111/cogs.13380.ABSTRACTPeople exhibit conflicting intuitions concerning the mind/body links. Here, I explore a novel explanation for these inconsistencies: Dualism is a violable constraint that interacts with Essentialism. Two experiments probe these interactions. In Experiment 1, participants evaluated the emergence of psychological traits in either a replica of one's body, or in the afterlife-after the body's demise. In line with Dualism, epistemic (i.e., disembodied) traits (e.g., knowing the contrast between good/bad) were considered more likely to emerge (relative to sensorim...
Source: Cognitive Science - November 22, 2023 Category: Neuroscience Authors: Iris Berent Source Type: research
How to Tell a Dualist?
Cogn Sci. 2023 Nov;47(11):e13380. doi: 10.1111/cogs.13380.ABSTRACTPeople exhibit conflicting intuitions concerning the mind/body links. Here, I explore a novel explanation for these inconsistencies: Dualism is a violable constraint that interacts with Essentialism. Two experiments probe these interactions. In Experiment 1, participants evaluated the emergence of psychological traits in either a replica of one's body, or in the afterlife-after the body's demise. In line with Dualism, epistemic (i.e., disembodied) traits (e.g., knowing the contrast between good/bad) were considered more likely to emerge (relative to sensorim...
Source: Cognitive Science - November 22, 2023 Category: Neuroscience Authors: Iris Berent Source Type: research
Probing Lexical Ambiguity in Chinese Characters via Their Word Formations: Convergence of Perceived and Computed Metrics
Cogn Sci. 2023 Nov;47(11):e13379. doi: 10.1111/cogs.13379.ABSTRACTLexical ambiguity is pervasive in language, and the nature of the representations of an ambiguous word's multiple meanings is yet to be fully understood. With a special focus on Chinese characters, the present study first established that native speaker's perception about a character's number of meanings was heavily influenced by the availability of its distinct word formations, while whether these meanings would be perceived to be closely related was driven by further conceptual analysis. These notions were operationalized as two computed metrics, which ass...
Source: Cognitive Science - November 21, 2023 Category: Neuroscience Authors: Tianqi Wang Xu Xu Xurong Xie Manwa Lawrence Ng Source Type: research
The Influence of Memory on Visual Perception in Infants, Children, and Adults
We examined how prior visual experience shapes visual perception in infants, children, and adults. Using an identical task across age groups, we exposed participants to pairs of colorful stimuli and implicitly measured their ability to discriminate relative saturation levels. Results showed that adult participants were biased by previously experienced exemplars, and exhibited weakened in-the-moment discrimination between different levels of saturation. In contrast, infants and children showed less influence of memory in their perception, and they actually outperformed adults in discriminating between current levels of satu...
Source: Cognitive Science - November 21, 2023 Category: Neuroscience Authors: Sagi Jaffe-Dax Christine E Potter Tiffany S Leung Lauren L Emberson Casey Lew-Williams Source Type: research
Distinct Profiles for Beliefs About Religion Versus Science
Cogn Sci. 2023 Nov;47(11):e13370. doi: 10.1111/cogs.13370.ABSTRACTA growing body of research suggests that scientific and religious beliefs are often held and justified in different ways. In three studies with 707 participants, we examine the distinctive profiles of beliefs in these domains. In Study 1, we find that participants report evidence and explanatory considerations (making sense of things) as dominant reasons for beliefs across domains. However, cuing the religious domain elevates endorsement of nonscientific justifications for belief, such as ethical considerations (e.g., believing it encourages people to be goo...
Source: Cognitive Science - November 16, 2023 Category: Neuroscience Authors: S Emlen Metz Emily G Liquin Tania Lombrozo Source Type: research
Distinct Profiles for Beliefs About Religion Versus Science
Cogn Sci. 2023 Nov;47(11):e13370. doi: 10.1111/cogs.13370.ABSTRACTA growing body of research suggests that scientific and religious beliefs are often held and justified in different ways. In three studies with 707 participants, we examine the distinctive profiles of beliefs in these domains. In Study 1, we find that participants report evidence and explanatory considerations (making sense of things) as dominant reasons for beliefs across domains. However, cuing the religious domain elevates endorsement of nonscientific justifications for belief, such as ethical considerations (e.g., believing it encourages people to be goo...
Source: Cognitive Science - November 16, 2023 Category: Neuroscience Authors: S Emlen Metz Emily G Liquin Tania Lombrozo Source Type: research
Distinct Profiles for Beliefs About Religion Versus Science
Cogn Sci. 2023 Nov;47(11):e13370. doi: 10.1111/cogs.13370.ABSTRACTA growing body of research suggests that scientific and religious beliefs are often held and justified in different ways. In three studies with 707 participants, we examine the distinctive profiles of beliefs in these domains. In Study 1, we find that participants report evidence and explanatory considerations (making sense of things) as dominant reasons for beliefs across domains. However, cuing the religious domain elevates endorsement of nonscientific justifications for belief, such as ethical considerations (e.g., believing it encourages people to be goo...
Source: Cognitive Science - November 16, 2023 Category: Neuroscience Authors: S Emlen Metz Emily G Liquin Tania Lombrozo Source Type: research
Distinct Profiles for Beliefs About Religion Versus Science
Cogn Sci. 2023 Nov;47(11):e13370. doi: 10.1111/cogs.13370.ABSTRACTA growing body of research suggests that scientific and religious beliefs are often held and justified in different ways. In three studies with 707 participants, we examine the distinctive profiles of beliefs in these domains. In Study 1, we find that participants report evidence and explanatory considerations (making sense of things) as dominant reasons for beliefs across domains. However, cuing the religious domain elevates endorsement of nonscientific justifications for belief, such as ethical considerations (e.g., believing it encourages people to be goo...
Source: Cognitive Science - November 16, 2023 Category: Neuroscience Authors: S Emlen Metz Emily G Liquin Tania Lombrozo Source Type: research
The Meaning of Motion Lines?: A Review of Theoretical and Empirical Research on Static Depiction of Motion
Cogn Sci. 2023 Nov;47(11):e13377. doi: 10.1111/cogs.13377.ABSTRACTStatic depiction of motion, particularly lines trailing behind a mover, has long been of interest in the psychology literature. Empirical research has demonstrated that these "motion lines" benefited motion comprehension in static images by disambiguating the direction of movement. Yet, there is no consensus on how those lines derive their meaning. In this article, we review three accounts suggesting different interpretations of what motion lines represent. While a perceptual account considers motion lines originating from motion streaks in the primary visua...
Source: Cognitive Science - November 15, 2023 Category: Neuroscience Authors: Irmak Hac ımusaoğlu Neil Cohn Source Type: research
The Meaning of Motion Lines?: A Review of Theoretical and Empirical Research on Static Depiction of Motion
Cogn Sci. 2023 Nov;47(11):e13377. doi: 10.1111/cogs.13377.ABSTRACTStatic depiction of motion, particularly lines trailing behind a mover, has long been of interest in the psychology literature. Empirical research has demonstrated that these "motion lines" benefited motion comprehension in static images by disambiguating the direction of movement. Yet, there is no consensus on how those lines derive their meaning. In this article, we review three accounts suggesting different interpretations of what motion lines represent. While a perceptual account considers motion lines originating from motion streaks in the primary visua...
Source: Cognitive Science - November 15, 2023 Category: Neuroscience Authors: Irmak Hac ımusaoğlu Neil Cohn Source Type: research
The Meaning of Motion Lines?: A Review of Theoretical and Empirical Research on Static Depiction of Motion
Cogn Sci. 2023 Nov;47(11):e13377. doi: 10.1111/cogs.13377.ABSTRACTStatic depiction of motion, particularly lines trailing behind a mover, has long been of interest in the psychology literature. Empirical research has demonstrated that these "motion lines" benefited motion comprehension in static images by disambiguating the direction of movement. Yet, there is no consensus on how those lines derive their meaning. In this article, we review three accounts suggesting different interpretations of what motion lines represent. While a perceptual account considers motion lines originating from motion streaks in the primary visua...
Source: Cognitive Science - November 15, 2023 Category: Neuroscience Authors: Irmak Hac ımusaoğlu Neil Cohn Source Type: research
No Peace for the Wicked? Immorality Is Thought to Disrupt Intrapersonal Harmony, Impeding Positive Psychological States and Happiness
Cogn Sci. 2023 Nov;47(11):e13371. doi: 10.1111/cogs.13371.ABSTRACTWhy do people think that someone living a morally bad life is less happy than someone living a good life? One possibility is that judging whether someone is happy involves not only attributing positive psychological states (i.e., lots of pleasant emotions, few unpleasant emotions, and satisfaction with life) but also forming an evaluative judgment. Another possibility is that moral considerations affect happiness attributions because they tacitly influence attributions of positive psychological states. In two studies, we found strong support for the second h...
Source: Cognitive Science - November 14, 2023 Category: Neuroscience Authors: Michael M Prinzing Barbara L Fredrickson Source Type: research
