People's Intuitions About Innateness.
core knowledge
dualism
essentialism
innateness
Journal
Open mind : discoveries in cognitive science
ISSN: 2470-2986
Titre abrégé: Open Mind (Camb)
Pays: United States
ID NLM: 101723793
Informations de publication
Date de publication:
2019
2019
Historique:
received:
26
01
2019
accepted:
21
08
2019
entrez:
6
9
2021
pubmed:
1
10
2019
medline:
1
10
2019
Statut:
epublish
Résumé
Few questions in science are as controversial as the origins of knowledge. Whether knowledge (e.g., "objects are cohesive") is partly innate has been debated for centuries. Here, we ask whether our difficulties with innate knowledge could be grounded in human cognition itself. In eight experiments, we compared reasoning about the innateness of traits that capture knowledge (cognitive traits) with noncognitive (sensorimotor and emotive) traits. Experiments 1-4 examined adult and infant traits; Experiment 5 presented detailed descriptions of published infant experiments. Results showed that people viewed cognitive traits as less likely to be innate in humans-the stronger the association with "thinking," the lower the rating for "innateness." Experiments 6-8 explored human, bird, and alien traits that were presented as innate. Participants, however, still considered cognitive traits as less likely to emerge spontaneously (i.e., be innate). These results show that people are selectively biased in reasoning about the origins of knowledge.
Identifiants
pubmed: 34485790
doi: 10.1162/opmi_a_00029
pii: opmi_a_00029
pmc: PMC8412331
doi:
Types de publication
Journal Article
Langues
eng
Pagination
101-114Informations de copyright
© 2019 Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Déclaration de conflit d'intérêts
Competing Interests: The authors declare that they have no competing interests.
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