On the other hand, the Nahmias et al. study, in contrast to Nichols and Knobe's abstract condition, requires a concrete social judgment; perhaps subjects are more likely to make compatibilist judgments when faced with the problem of making a specific social attribution.
Sometimes indeed we revise our more particular judgments in light of some general principle to which we adhere; but we are also free to revise more general principles in light of some relatively concrete considered judgment.
If forced to choose between the disconcertingly abstract person-based intuition and the concrete moral judgment that what the agents have done in the depletion case or slave child case is wrong, we may well opt for the latter.
most utilitarians would soon find fault with this new utilitarian's concrete moral judgments, just as they find fault with each other's.
The effect of abstract versus concrete framing on judgments of biological and psychological bases of behavior.
In other words, the practice of toleration (by individuals or governments) may or may not reflect a virtue or ethic of "tolerance"; it may rather express far more concrete and particular judgments about specific situations.
We are expected, however, to learn from stories such as Shun's, precisely because they function as concrete paradigms for judgment-making in the future.
Previous studies showed that concrete examples affect judgments more strongly than abstract descriptions do, because concrete examples are more salient, memorable, or convincing (e.g. Borgida & Nisbett, 1977; Jenni & Loewenstein, 1997; see also Semin & Fiedler, 1991 for different ways of construing abstract versus concrete descriptions).
In the dual task, subjects made concrete or abstract judgments on words presented, via headphones, on 150 of the 360 movements.
We will see that some operators introduced in belief merging are instances of aggregation procedures that violate the independence condition and that such operators can be applied to hold concrete aggregation procedures to judgment aggregation problems.
