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Direct linkElqayam, Shira; Thompson, Valerie A.; Wilkinson, Meredith R.; Evans, Jonathan St. B. T.; Over, David E. – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2015
Humans have a unique ability to generate novel norms. Faced with the knowledge that there are hungry children in Somalia, we easily and naturally infer that we ought to donate to famine relief charities. Although a contentious and lively issue in metaethics, such inference from "is" to "ought" has not been systematically…
Descriptors: Inferences, Abstract Reasoning, Logical Thinking, Experiments
