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The mind of the market: lay beliefs about the economy as a willful, goal-oriented agent

The mind of the market: lay beliefs about the economy as a willful, goal-oriented agent
The mind of the market: lay beliefs about the economy as a willful, goal-oriented agent
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.
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Forstmann, Matthias
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Burgmer, Pascal
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Forstmann, Matthias
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Burgmer, Pascal
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Forstmann, Matthias and Burgmer, Pascal (2018) The mind of the market: lay beliefs about the economy as a willful, goal-oriented agent. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 41, [e169]. (doi:10.1017/s0140525x18000353).

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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.

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Forstmann & Burgmer (2018, BBS) – Commentary on Boyer & Petersen (Accepted Manuscript) - Accepted Manuscript
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e-pub ahead of print date: 30 August 2018
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Local EPrints ID: 478862
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/478862
DOI: doi:10.1017/s0140525x18000353
ISSN: 0140-525X
PURE UUID: b3d0b788-7b34-43af-a348-128ef281d523

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Date deposited: 11 Jul 2023 17:10
Last modified: 17 Mar 2024 02:16

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Author: Matthias Forstmann
Author: Pascal Burgmer

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