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Whose Mind Matters More—The Agent or the Artist? An Investigation of Ethical and Aesthetic Evaluations
Theory of mind, the capacity for reasoning about mental states such as beliefs and intentions, represents a critical input to ethical and aesthetic evaluations. Did the agent cause harm on purpose? Were those brushstrokes intentional? The current study investigates theory of mind for moral and artis...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3770669/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24039707 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0070759 |
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description | Theory of mind, the capacity for reasoning about mental states such as beliefs and intentions, represents a critical input to ethical and aesthetic evaluations. Did the agent cause harm on purpose? Were those brushstrokes intentional? The current study investigates theory of mind for moral and artistic judgments within the same paradigm. In particular, we target the role of intent for two kinds of judgments: “objective” judgments of quality and “subjective” judgments of preference or liking. First, we show that intent matters more for objective versus subjective judgments in the case of ethics and aesthetics. Second, we show that, overall, intent matters more for ethical versus aesthetic evaluations. These findings suggest that an “objective-subjective” dimension describes judgments across both domains, and that observers assign more weight to the mind of the moral agent than the mind of the artist when making the relevant evaluations. |
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spelling | pubmed-37706692013-09-13 Whose Mind Matters More—The Agent or the Artist? An Investigation of Ethical and Aesthetic Evaluations Hawley-Dolan, Angelina Young, Liane PLoS One Research Article Theory of mind, the capacity for reasoning about mental states such as beliefs and intentions, represents a critical input to ethical and aesthetic evaluations. Did the agent cause harm on purpose? Were those brushstrokes intentional? The current study investigates theory of mind for moral and artistic judgments within the same paradigm. In particular, we target the role of intent for two kinds of judgments: “objective” judgments of quality and “subjective” judgments of preference or liking. First, we show that intent matters more for objective versus subjective judgments in the case of ethics and aesthetics. Second, we show that, overall, intent matters more for ethical versus aesthetic evaluations. These findings suggest that an “objective-subjective” dimension describes judgments across both domains, and that observers assign more weight to the mind of the moral agent than the mind of the artist when making the relevant evaluations. Public Library of Science 2013-09-11 /pmc/articles/PMC3770669/ /pubmed/24039707 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0070759 Text en © 2013 Hawley-Dolan and Young http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are properly credited. |
spellingShingle | Research Article Hawley-Dolan, Angelina Young, Liane Whose Mind Matters More—The Agent or the Artist? An Investigation of Ethical and Aesthetic Evaluations |
title | Whose Mind Matters More—The Agent or the Artist? An Investigation of Ethical and Aesthetic Evaluations |
title_full | Whose Mind Matters More—The Agent or the Artist? An Investigation of Ethical and Aesthetic Evaluations |
title_fullStr | Whose Mind Matters More—The Agent or the Artist? An Investigation of Ethical and Aesthetic Evaluations |
title_full_unstemmed | Whose Mind Matters More—The Agent or the Artist? An Investigation of Ethical and Aesthetic Evaluations |
title_short | Whose Mind Matters More—The Agent or the Artist? An Investigation of Ethical and Aesthetic Evaluations |
title_sort | whose mind matters more—the agent or the artist? an investigation of ethical and aesthetic evaluations |
topic | Research Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3770669/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24039707 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0070759 |
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