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Direct linkPerham, Nick; Oaksford, Mike – Cognitive Science, 2005
Three experiments investigated the contrasting predictions of the evolutionary and decision-theoretic approaches to deontic reasoning. Two experiments embedded a hazard management (HM) rule in a social contract scenario that should lead to competition between innate modules. A 3rd experiment used a pure HM task. Threatening material was also…
Descriptors: Logical Thinking, Decision Making, Cognitive Psychology, Ideology
