Intentional action in ordinary language: core concept or pragmatic understanding?

Adams, Fred; Steadman, Annie

doi:10.1111/j.1467-8284.2004.00480.x

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“…In fact, a number of researchers have recently been developing accounts that can be extended to many of the judgments that are impacted by morality (Adams & Steadman, 2004;Alfano, Beebe & Robinson, 2012;Driver, 2008a;2008b;Phillips et al, 2015;Uttich & Lombrozo, 2010). However, all of these accounts were developed to explain effects that showed precisely the opposite pattern from the one exhibited by assessments of happiness.…”

Section: Happiness and The Pervasive Impact Of Moralitymentioning

confidence: 99%

True happiness: The role of morality in the folk concept of happiness.

Phillips

Freitas

Mott

et al. 2017

Journal of Experimental Psychology: General

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Recent scientific research has settled on a purely descriptive definition of happiness that is focused solely on agents' psychological states (high positive affect, low negative affect, high life satisfaction). In contrast to this understanding, recent research has suggested that the ordinary concept of happiness is also sensitive to the moral value of agents' lives. Five studies systematically investigate and explain the impact of morality on ordinary assessments of happiness. Study 1 demonstrates that moral judgments influence assessments of happiness not only for untrained participants, but also for academic researchers and even in those who study happiness specifically. Studies 2 and 3 then respectively ask whether this effect may be explained by general motivational biases or beliefs in a just world. In both cases, we find evidence against these explanations. Study 4 shows that the impact of moral judgments cannot be explained by changes in the perception of descriptive psychological states. Finally, Study 5 compares the impact of moral and non-moral value, and provides evidence that unlike non-moral value, moral value is part of the criteria that govern the ordinary concept of happiness. Taken together, these studies provide a specific explanation of how and why the ordinary concept of happiness deviates from the definition used by researchers studying happiness.

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Section: Happiness and The Pervasive Impact Of Moralitymentioning

confidence: 99%

True happiness: The role of morality in the folk concept of happiness.

Phillips

Freitas

Mott

et al. 2017

Journal of Experimental Psychology: General

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“…Certain scholars argue that the Knobe effect constitutes a bias, and that the folk use of intentionality is frequently distorted (Adams & Steadman, 2004;Alicke, 2008;Alicke & Rose, 2010;Nadelhoffer, 2004aNadelhoffer, , 2004bNadelhoffer, , 2006Sauer & Bates, 2013). In contrast to such views, several scholars have argued that the Knobe effect testifies to people's competence in intentionality ascriptions (cf.…”

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“…Since blame plays a central role in several explanations of the Knobe effect (e.g. Adams and Steadman (2004), Nadelhoffer (2004aNadelhoffer ( , 2006; for discussion cf. Knobe (2006), Sauer and Bates (2013)) as well as more general accounts such as Alicke's (2000Alicke's ( , 2008 culpable control model, we have also measured blame ascriptions in our experiments.…”

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Mens rea ascription, expertise and outcome effects: Professional judges surveyed

Kneer

Bourgeois‐Gironde

2017

Cognition

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“…Murnaghan et al (2009) use the TPB framework in investigating the influence of student beliefs on staying smoke-free and conclude that behavioural, normative, and control beliefs are significantly associated with being smoke-free. Previous research also suggests that measuring belief importance can help comprehensively understand the structures underlying attitude, subjective norm, and perceived behavioural control (Pligt and de Vries, 1998;Armitage and Conner, 1999;Adams and Steadman, 2004). However, to the best of our knowledge, very few studies examine the relationships between college students' beliefs, attitudes, and financial behaviours.…”

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Quantitative investigation of college students' financial behaviour

Sun¹,

Qin²,

Jackson³

2014

IJEF

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Abstract:The rapid growth of student loan debt has led to increased public attention on college students' financial aid and financial behaviour. This study addresses the psychological process underlying effective college student financial behaviour and its determinants. A model modified based on planned behaviour theory is proposed and empirically tested using a sample of 243 college students. Structural equation modelling (SEM) is employed to examine the model fits and to investigate the relationship among the proposed factors. The determinants of financial behaviour identified by this study include attitude, intention, and perceived behavioural control, past behaviour, subjective norm, behavioural beliefs, subjective norm beliefs, and control beliefs. Additionally, this research examines the relative importance of these determinants and tests the role of beliefs.Keywords: college students' financial behaviour; theory of planned behaviour; student loan debt; past behaviour; intention. 36L. Sun et al.

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Intentional action in ordinary language: core concept or pragmatic understanding?

Cited by 101 publications

References 12 publications

True happiness: The role of morality in the folk concept of happiness.

True happiness: The role of morality in the folk concept of happiness.

Mens rea ascription, expertise and outcome effects: Professional judges surveyed

Quantitative investigation of college students' financial behaviour

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