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Joshua Knobe, Prof Philosophy and Psychology and Linguistics, Yale University
‘Normal’ behaviour: Statistical norms and prescriptive norms
Abstract: People have representations of the degree to which behaviors are frequent or infrequent (statistical norms). People also have representations of the degree to which behaviors should or should not be performed (prescriptive norms). In a series of studies, we show that people often blend together these apparently different types of norms into a single undifferentiated representation: a representation of the degree to which certain behaviours are normal. The talk presents this work and explores how the undifferentiated statistical/prescriptive mixture influences various processes involved in judgment and decision-making.