Distinctions, Judgment, and Reasoning in Classical Chinese Thought

Reasoning, Judgment, and Pragmatics

How emotions inform judgment and regulate thought.

Being happy or sad influences the content and style of thought. One explanation is that affect serves as information about the value of whatever comes to mind. Thus, when a person makes evaluative judgments or engages in a task, positive affect can enhance evaluations and empower potential responses. Rather than affect itself, the information conveyed by affect is crucial. Tests of the hypothes...

Diagrammatic Representation and Reasoning: Some Distinctions

When I co-edited the book, "Diagrammatic Reasoning," [5] I often puzzled over the fact that rather different sorts of things were dubbed diagrammatic reasoning by different authors. I then spent sometime trying to categorize the different types of use of diagrams and the different tasks that they served. This short article is the result of that study. The distinctions I make here apply not simp...

Emotion and Deliberative Reasoning in Moral Judgment

According to an influential dual-process model, a moral judgment is the outcome of a rapid, affect-laden process and a slower, deliberative process. If these outputs conflict, decision time is increased in order to resolve the conflict. Violations of deontological principles proscribing the use of personal force to inflict intentional harm are presumed to elicit negative affect which biases jud...

Reflection and Reasoning in Moral Judgment

While there is much evidence for the influence of automatic emotional responses on moral judgment, the roles of reflection and reasoning remain uncertain. In Experiment 1, we induced subjects to be more reflective by completing the Cognitive Reflection Test (CRT) prior to responding to moral dilemmas. This manipulation increased utilitarian responding, as individuals who reflected more on the C...