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dc.contributor.authorSosa, Felix A
dc.contributor.authorUllman, Tomer
dc.contributor.authorTenenbaum, Joshua B
dc.contributor.authorGershman, Samuel J
dc.contributor.authorGerstenberg, Tobias
dc.date.accessioned2021-12-08T16:15:09Z
dc.date.available2021-12-08T16:15:09Z
dc.date.issued2021-12
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/138378
dc.description.abstractWhen holding others morally responsible, we care about what they did, and what they thought. Traditionally, research in moral psychology has relied on vignette studies, in which a protagonist's actions and thoughts are explicitly communicated. While this research has revealed what variables are important for moral judgment, such as actions and intentions, it is limited in providing a more detailed understanding of exactly how these variables affect moral judgment. Using dynamic visual stimuli that allow for a more fine-grained experimental control, recent studies have proposed a direct mapping from visual features to moral judgments. We embrace the use of visual stimuli in moral psychology, but question the plausibility of a feature-based theory of moral judgment. We propose that the connection from visual features to moral judgments is mediated by an inference about what the observed action reveals about the agent's mental states, and what causal role the agent's action played in bringing about the outcome. We present a computational model that formalizes moral judgments of agents in visual scenes as computations over an intuitive theory of physics combined with an intuitive theory of mind. We test the model's quantitative predictions in three experiments across a wide variety of dynamic interactions.en_US
dc.language.isoen
dc.publisherElsevier BVen_US
dc.relation.isversionof10.1016/j.cognition.2021.104890en_US
dc.rightsCreative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs Licenseen_US
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/en_US
dc.sourcePsyArXiven_US
dc.titleMoral dynamics: Grounding moral judgment in intuitive physics and intuitive psychologyen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US
dc.identifier.citationSosa, Felix A, Ullman, Tomer, Tenenbaum, Joshua B, Gershman, Samuel J and Gerstenberg, Tobias. 2021. "Moral dynamics: Grounding moral judgment in intuitive physics and intuitive psychology." Cognition, 217.
dc.contributor.departmentMassachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences
dc.relation.journalCognitionen_US
dc.eprint.versionAuthor's final manuscripten_US
dc.type.urihttp://purl.org/eprint/type/JournalArticleen_US
eprint.statushttp://purl.org/eprint/status/PeerRevieweden_US
dc.date.updated2021-12-08T16:10:35Z
dspace.orderedauthorsSosa, FA; Ullman, T; Tenenbaum, JB; Gershman, SJ; Gerstenberg, Ten_US
dspace.date.submission2021-12-08T16:10:41Z
mit.journal.volume217en_US
mit.licensePUBLISHER_CC
mit.metadata.statusAuthority Work and Publication Information Neededen_US


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