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Social values at different levels of mental representation| old_uid | 7795 |
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| title | Social values at different levels of mental representation |
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| start_date | 2009/12/09 |
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| schedule | 13h |
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| online | no |
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| summary | "We often claim to attach high amounts of importance to diverse abstract ideals, such as freedom, equality, and the environment. At the same time, our behaviour often seems to mismatch the values we claim to hold. This ostensible value-action gap may be partly due to the way in which values can be mentally represented. Values can be encoded (1) in relation to each other, (2) as single abstract entities, and (3) as concrete instantiations. Each level of mental representation conveys a different perspective on the potential antecedents and consequences of values. This presentation will demonstrate the utility of this theoretical perspective through a series of simple experiments. These experiments show how the perspective unveils a variety of counter-intuitive effects of values on behaviour." |
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| responsibles | Brysbaert |
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