People's praise and blame for intentions and actions: implications of the folk concept of intentionality
Year: 2002
Type: report
Abstract: According to people's folk theory of behavior, intentions are mental states directed towards future action whereas intentionality is a specific manner in which a behavior is performed, namely, with an intention and with skill and awareness.The present studies explore the implications of this distinction for how people evaluate (i.e., praise or blame) social behaviors.Two studies investigated how people's evaluations differ for intentions in actions, bare (yet unfulfilled) intentions, and intentionally performed actions.The studies also show asymmetries between blame and praise (for both intentions and actions), adding to documented negativity biases in person perception.Note: * p < .05,** p < .001for comparing absolute control variable scores between the 12 negative and 12 positive behaviors
Authors: Bertram F. Malle, Ruth E. Bennett
Institution: University of Oregon
Language: English
Subfield: Cognitive Neuroscience
Field: Neuroscience
Domain: Life Sciences
Open Access status: green
Funder: National Science Foundation
OpenAlex ID: W1484258349