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Exploring the Role of Deontic Reasoning and World Knowledge in Wason´s Selection Task

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Subjective selection needs socially transmitted goals and culturally evolving problems.

James Winters¹, Mathieu Charbonneau²

¹Centre for Culture and Evolution, Brunel University of London, London, UK james.winters@brunel.ac.uk https://j-winters.github.io.

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Summary

Language and cultural evolution are key to understanding shared goals, complementing evolved psychology. This framework explains how problems and solutions co-evolve beyond fixed psychological structures.

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Exploring the Role of Deontic Reasoning and World Knowledge in Wason´s Selection Task

Exploring the Role of Deontic Reasoning and World Knowledge in Wason´s Selection Task

Published on: July 22, 2025

Area of Science:

Cognitive Science
Evolutionary Psychology
Cultural Evolution

Background:

Singh's subjective selection framework focuses on evolved psychology.
Existing frameworks may not fully account for the role of language and cultural factors in goal formation.

Purpose of the Study:

To enhance Singh's subjective selection framework.
To incorporate the roles of language and cultural evolution in goal coordination.

Main Methods:

Commentary and theoretical analysis.
Integration of concepts from linguistics, sociology, and psychology.

Main Results:

Language is essential for coordinating shared instrumental goals, reducing reliance on solely evolved psychology.
Goals are culturally constructed, socially transmitted, and evolve over time.
A co-evolutionary dynamic between problems and solutions emerges, which fixed psychological hierarchies cannot fully explain.

Conclusions:

A comprehensive framework for understanding subjective selection must include language and cultural evolution.
This expanded view offers a more robust explanation for the development and coordination of complex goals over time.