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Direct linkGjata, Nensi N.; Ullman, Tomer D.; Spelke, Elizabeth S.; Liu, Shari – Cognitive Science, 2022
When human adults make decisions (e.g., wearing a seat belt), we often consider the negative consequences that would ensue if our actions were to fail, even if we have never experienced such a failure. Do the same considerations guide our understanding of other people's decisions? In this paper, we investigated whether adults, who have many years…
Descriptors: Decision Making, Adults, Young Children, Motivation
Banerjee, Konika; Haque, Omar S.; Spelke, Elizabeth S. – Cognitive Science, 2013
Previous research with adults suggests that a catalog of minimally counterintuitive concepts, which underlies supernatural or religious concepts, may constitute a cognitive optimum and is therefore cognitively encoded and culturally transmitted more successfully than either entirely intuitive concepts or maximally counterintuitive concepts. This…
Descriptors: Intuition, Children, Recall (Psychology), Preferences
