Temperament and intuition: A commentary on Feltz and Cokely

Consciousness & Cognition; Mar2009, Vol. 18 Issue 1, p351-355.

Co-authored by one of our grantees, Eddy Nahmias.

"In this paper, we examine Adam Feltz and Edward Cokely’s recent claim that “the personality trait extraversion predicts people’s intuitions about the relationship of determinism to free will and moral responsibility.” We will first present some criticisms of their work before briefly examining the results of a recent study of our own. We argue that while Feltz and Cokely have their finger on the pulse of an interesting and important issue, they have not established a robust and stable connection between extraversion and compatibilist-friendly intuitions..."

Nadelhoffer, Thomas
Kvaran, Trevor
Nahmias, Eddy

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Read the original commentary by Feltz and Cokley: "Do judgments about freedom and responsibility depend on who you are? Personality differences in intuitions about compatibilism and incompatibilism." Consciousness and Cognition,
Volume 18, Issue 1, March 2009, p 342-35.

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