The Worst-Motive Fallacy: A Negativity Bias in Motive Attribution.
attribution
cognitive bias
experimental philosophy
meta-ethics
moral intuitions
moral judgment
motives
open data
open materials
preregistered
Journal
Psychological science
ISSN: 1467-9280
Titre abrégé: Psychol Sci
Pays: United States
ID NLM: 9007542
Informations de publication
Date de publication:
11 2020
11 2020
Historique:
pubmed:
22
10
2020
medline:
19
8
2021
entrez:
21
10
2020
Statut:
ppublish
Résumé
In this article, we describe a hitherto undocumented fallacy-in the sense of a mistake in reasoning-constituted by a negativity bias in the way that people attribute motives to others. We call this the "worst-motive fallacy," and we conducted two experiments to investigate it. In Experiment 1 (
Identifiants
pubmed: 33085928
doi: 10.1177/0956797620954492
doi:
Types de publication
Journal Article
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
Langues
eng
Sous-ensembles de citation
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