Year: 2003
Type: article
Abstract: Deontic mental model theory proposes that social norms are the basic concept underlying deontic inferences.Norms impose constraints on individual actions under certain conditions.Two assumptions are made: First, people's representations of norms follow a closed world principle.Second, they interpret the relation between a behavioral constraint and its conditions as equivalence.Both principles allow them to draw definite deontic inferences very flexibly.An experiment provides first empirical evidence that the assumptions are justified.
Author: Sieghard Beller
Institution: University of Freiburg
Language: English
Subfield: Artificial Intelligence
Field: Computer Science
Domain: Physical Sciences
Open Access status: green
Funder: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft
OpenAlex ID: W111892515