Forstmann, Matthias, Burgmer, Pascal (2018) The mind of the market: Lay beliefs about the economy as a willful, goal-oriented agent. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 41 . ISSN 0140-525X. (doi:10.1017/S0140525X18000353) (KAR id:71321)
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Official URL: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0140525X18000353 |
Abstract
We propose an extension to Boyer & Petersen's (B&P's) framework for folk-economic beliefs, suggesting that certain evolutionarily acquired cognitive inference systems can cause modern humans to perceive abstract systems such as the economy as willful, goal-oriented agents. Such an anthropomorphized view, we argue, can have meaningful effects on people's moral evaluations of these agents, as well as on their political and economic behavior.
Item Type: | Article |
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DOI/Identification number: | 10.1017/S0140525X18000353 |
Divisions: | Divisions > Division of Human and Social Sciences > School of Psychology |
Depositing User: | Pascal Burgmer |
Date Deposited: | 19 Dec 2018 23:42 UTC |
Last Modified: | 09 Dec 2022 06:36 UTC |
Resource URI: | https://kar.kent.ac.uk/id/eprint/71321 (The current URI for this page, for reference purposes) |
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