人们如何思考假设不可能的真相
1School of Psychology and Institute of Neuroscience, Trinity College Dublin, University of Dublin, Dublin, Ireland. rmbyrne@tcd.ie.
Memory & cognition
|October 3, 2023
概括
人们通过模拟不可能的"假如"情景来评估它们,根据现实世界的知识来确定真相. 这项研究揭示了认知模拟如何影响对假设不可能的判断.
科学领域:
- 认知心理学 认知心理学
- 思想的哲学 思想的哲学
- 语言学的语言学.
背景情况:
- 人类可以考虑假设的不可能,但他们的真理价值观各不相同.
- 了解人们如何对反事实和不可能进行推理对于认知科学至关重要.
研究的目的:
- 调查潜在的认知过程的判断不可能的条件.
- 为了测试人们模拟不可能的假设,类似于可能性的假设.
主要方法:
- 进行了四项涉及假设条件判断的实验.
- 参与者评估了不可能的条件的真实性,基于模拟的结果,由现实世界的知识来告知.
- 判断包括对可能性,真理程度和绝对真理的评估.
主要成果:
- 参与者认为一些不可能的条件是真的一种结果,与相反的错误.
- 其他不可能的条件被认为是假的,无论结果如何.
- 某些不可能的条件被认为是真实的,无论结果如何,取决于具体的场景.
结论:
- 人们通过构建由现实世界知识所依据的一致模拟来评估不可能的条件.
- 这些发现挑战了评估假设不可能的概率性比较模型.
- 认知模拟在理解反事实推理方面发挥着关键作用.
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