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Young, Liane; Saxe, Rebecca – Cognition, 2011
A key factor in legal and moral judgments is intent. Intent differentiates, for instance, murder from manslaughter. Is this true for all moral judgments? People deliver moral judgments of many kinds of actions, including harmful actions (e.g., assault) and purity violations (e.g., incest, consuming taboo substances). We show that intent is a key…
Descriptors: Decision Making, Moral Values, Intention, Sexual Abuse
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Pacherie, Elisabeth – Cognition, 2008
After a long period of neglect, the phenomenology of action has recently regained its place in the agenda of philosophers and scientists alike. The recent explosion of interest in the topic highlights its complexity. The purpose of this paper is to propose a conceptual framework allowing for a more precise characterization of the many facets of…
Descriptors: Phenomenology, Guidelines, Models, Intention
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Preissler, Melissa Allen; Carey, Susan – Cognition, 2005
Young children are readily able to use known labels to constrain hypotheses about the meanings of new words under conditions of referential ambiguity. At issue is the kind of information children use to constrain such hypotheses. According to one theory, children take into account the speaker's intention when solving a referential puzzle. In the…
Descriptors: Inferences, Autism, Language Acquisition, Intention