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dc.contributor.authorKilpatrick, S.G.
dc.contributor.authorManktelow, Ken I.
dc.contributor.authorOver, D.E.
dc.date.accessioned2008-06-24T14:27:38Z
dc.date.available2008-06-24T14:27:38Z
dc.date.issued2007
dc.identifier.citationThinking & Reasoning, 13 (3) : 295-317
dc.identifier.issn13546783
dc.identifier.issn14640708
dc.identifier.doi10.1080/13546780601008783
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/2436/30414
dc.description.abstractPower has been studied in various guises in both the social cognition and the reasoning literatures. In this paper, three experiments are reported in which this factor was investigated in the domain of deontic thinking. Power of source of deontic statements was varied within several scenarios, and participants judged the degree to which they thought an injunction would be carried out. In the first experiment, permission statements were used, and it was found that, as predicted, power was positively related to degree of endorsement of deontic conclusions across scenarios. In the second experiment, these findings were generalised across three further deontic domains (threat, warning, and promise) and two different syntactic forms (conjunctive and disjunctive). In the third experiment, the hypothesis that power effects were mediated by subjective judgements of conditional probability was investigated and confirmed. It is argued that these results favour theories that give a general role to probabilistic factors, rather than those based on domain-specific
dc.language.isoen
dc.publisherTaylor & Francis
dc.relation.urlhttp://www.informaworld.com/smpp/title~content=t713685607~db=all
dc.subjectCognitive Psychology
dc.subjectPhilosophy
dc.subjectThinking
dc.subjectReasoning and Problem Solving
dc.titlePower of source as a factor in deontic inference
dc.typeJournal article
dc.identifier.journalThinking & Reasoning
html.description.abstractPower has been studied in various guises in both the social cognition and the reasoning literatures. In this paper, three experiments are reported in which this factor was investigated in the domain of deontic thinking. Power of source of deontic statements was varied within several scenarios, and participants judged the degree to which they thought an injunction would be carried out. In the first experiment, permission statements were used, and it was found that, as predicted, power was positively related to degree of endorsement of deontic conclusions across scenarios. In the second experiment, these findings were generalised across three further deontic domains (threat, warning, and promise) and two different syntactic forms (conjunctive and disjunctive). In the third experiment, the hypothesis that power effects were mediated by subjective judgements of conditional probability was investigated and confirmed. It is argued that these results favour theories that give a general role to probabilistic factors, rather than those based on domain-specific


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