Developing Intuitions about How Personal and Social Properties Are Linked to the Brain and the Body |
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Authors: | Katherine S Choe Frank C Keil Paul Bloom |
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Institution: | Department of Psychology, Goucher College, Baltimore, MD, USA. |
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Abstract: | This study investigated the development of intuitions about which properties are associated with the brain and which are associated with the body. A sample of 60 children aged 6, 8, and 10 years, as well a sample of 20 adults, were told about a brain transplant between two individuals and were asked about where certain properties resided after the transplant. Adults and older children construed the characteristics associated with fine-motor behaviour, culpability, social contract and best friendships as transferring with the brain. Characteristics associated with gross-motor behaviour, physical/biological properties, ownership and familial relationships were more likely to be seen as remaining with the body. Domain-based explanations for this pattern of results are discussed. |
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Keywords: | brain transplant personal and social properties categories domain specificity |
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