Attentional efficiency does not explain the mental state × domain effect
dc.contributor.author | Sweetman, J | |
dc.contributor.author | Newman, GA | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2020-07-27T15:01:46Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2020-06-15 | |
dc.description.abstract | The reduced importance of intent when judging purity (vs. harm) violations is some of the strongest evidence for distinct moral modules or systems: moral pluralism. However, research has indicated that some supposed differences between purity and harm moral domains are due to the relative weirdness of purity vignettes. This weirdness might lead to a failure to attend to or correctly process relevant mental state information. Such attentional failures could offer an alternative explanation (to separate moral systems) for the reduced exculpatory value of innocent intentions for purity violations. We tested if the different role of intent in each domain was moderated by individual differences in attentional efficiency, as measured by the Attention Network Task. If attentional efficiency explains the reduced exculpatory value of innocent intentions in purity (vs. harm) violations, then we would expect those high (vs. low) in attentional efficiency not to show the reduced exculpatory effect of innocent intentions in the purity (vs. harm) domain. Consistent with moral pluralism, results revealed no such moderation. Findings are discussed in relation to various ways of testing domain-general and domain-specific accounts of the mental state × domain effect, so that we might better understand the architecture of our moral minds. | en_GB |
dc.identifier.citation | Vol. 15 (6), e0234500 | en_GB |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.1371/journal.pone.0234500 | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10871/122175 | |
dc.language.iso | en | en_GB |
dc.publisher | Public Library of Science | en_GB |
dc.rights | Copyright: © 2020 Sweetman, Newman. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. | en_GB |
dc.subject | cognition | en_GB |
dc.subject | ants | en_GB |
dc.subject | attention | en_GB |
dc.subject | reaction time | en_GB |
dc.subject | Moral philosophy | en_GB |
dc.subject | Network analysis | en_GB |
dc.subject | Cognitive psychology | en_GB |
dc.subject | urine | en_GB |
dc.title | Attentional efficiency does not explain the mental state × domain effect | en_GB |
dc.type | Article | en_GB |
dc.date.available | 2020-07-27T15:01:46Z | |
dc.description | This is the final version. Available from Public Library of Science via the DOI in this record. | en_GB |
dc.description | Data Availability: The data underlying the results presented in the study are available at https://osf.io/8k2hj/ | en_GB |
dc.identifier.eissn | 1932-6203 | |
dc.identifier.journal | PloS one | en_GB |
dc.rights.uri | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ | en_GB |
dcterms.dateAccepted | 2020-05-26 | |
rioxxterms.version | VoR | en_GB |
rioxxterms.licenseref.startdate | 2020-05-26 | |
rioxxterms.type | Journal Article/Review | en_GB |
refterms.dateFCD | 2020-07-27T14:57:42Z | |
refterms.versionFCD | VoR | |
refterms.dateFOA | 2020-07-27T15:01:52Z | |
refterms.panel | A | en_GB |
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