TY - JOUR
AU - Nguyen-Xuan, Anh
AB - It is proposed that reasoning about social contracts, such as conditional promises and warnings, is under the control of a compound schema made of two pragmatic schemas (Cheng & Holyoak, 1985), expressing an obligation and a permission. Two experiments were run using thematic versions of the Wason selection task in which the rule and the core of the scenario were kept constant and the point of view of the actor (e.g. promisor or promisee) was varied. The results supported the predictions (including the occurrence of a correct pattern of response that consists of all four cards) and falsified predictions derived from Cosmides' (1989) theory of social exchange. The mental models theory and Evans' two-stage theory of reasoning are also discussed in the light of the present results.
TI - Reasoning about Conditional Promises and Warnings: Darwinian Algorithms, Mental Models, Relevance Judgements or Pragmatic Schemas?
JF - The Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology Section A
DO - 10.1080/14640749208401292
DA - 1992-04-01
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/sage/reasoning-about-conditional-promises-and-warnings-darwinian-algorithms-UeQT58YgSd
SP - 401
EP - 421
VL - 44
IS - 3
DP - DeepDyve
ER -