Role of responsibility in conditional reasoning.
Psychol Rep
; 91(1): 275-88, 2002 Aug.
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ABSTRACT
A series of recent studies showed that facilitation on the Wason Selection Task could be produced by perceived utilities. The present work was aimed at testing whether a similar factor could also be involved in human reasoning performance in the context of responsibility. We supposed that the motivation of the subject assuming responsibility is affected by normative goals. These goals prescribe the actions and the results to be achieved, also considering the different social roles. In this experiment the responses of different groups of subjects (N = 270) to a selection task were compared in two different conditions involving different responsibility contexts. The results show that the subjects' strategies in searching for possible violators depended on the condition (responsibility vs no responsibility). In particular, only in the context of responsibility were the performances elicited by conditional rules characterised by a falsification strategy.
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Colección:
01-internacional
Base de datos:
MEDLINE
Asunto principal:
Responsabilidad Social
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Toma de Decisiones
Tipo de estudio:
Clinical_trials
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Prognostic_studies
Límite:
Adult
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Female
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Humans
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Male
Idioma:
En
Revista:
Psychol Rep
Año:
2002
Tipo del documento:
Article
País de afiliación:
Italia