Furthermore, in the case of VAE it was suggested that cognitive convictions – such as the ideological positioning – might be strong determinants influencing the interviewees' opinion [ 20].
Our results suggest that factors relating to an individual's interpersonal living situation and his/her cognitive convictions might be important determinants of the attitude toward AVE.
This might be due to the fact that the answer to the abstract question is mainly shaped by cognitive convictions, whereas in the case example, the answer given is based more on the emotional reaction to the described situation.
Our results suggest that factors relating to an individual's interpersonal living situation and his/her cognitive convictions might be important determinants of the attitude toward active voluntary euthanasia.
This might be due to the fact that the answer to the abstract question, more so than the answer to the situational question, is based on cognitive convictions that clearly correlate with the fact of belonging to a certain social group.
Underlying cognitive convictions, especially those emphasising individual liberty and self-responsibility that are so closely linked to a liberal socio-cultural worldview, might play a decisive role in the acceptance of euthanasia [ 8, 16], as is evident from our study among medical students [ 15].
It's a rigorously rational, empirical book, rooted in this cognitive scientist's conviction that our behavior has evolved, biologically into our flawed history as a moral species.
Thus, the strong negative association between cognitive disabilities and convictions found in this study may therefore be an artefact of such practices.
"Our motivation is to explore the cognitive mechanisms underlying our strong conviction in reality.
Because the shift involves "transcending" the cognitive, it may explain the conviction of having contact with a "transcendent realm".
