PERTINENCE ET DEONTIQUES

Girotto ,V. Kemmelmeier, M.Sperber, D. van der Henst, J-B. 2001). Inept reasoners or pragmatic virtuosos? Relevance and the deontic selection task. Cognition, 81 (2), B69-B76.


Selon ces auteurs :

"Indirect evidence for these two claims is provided by the fact that people asked to solve a series of selection tasks, some deontic, some descriptive, show no transfer from one task to the next (e.g. Johnson-Laird, Legrenzi, & Legrenzi, 1972)."

"Sperber, Cara, and Girotto (1995) argued that participants' poor performance on the selection task is best explained by considering that (1) the very process of linguistic comprehension provides participants with intuitions of relevance (see Sperber & Wilson 1995), (2) these intuitions, just as comprehension generally, are highly content- and context-dependent, and (3) participants trust their intuitions of relevance and select cards accordingly."

"If, in the selection task, pragmatic comprehension mechanisms indeed pre-empt the use of whatever domain-general or domain-specic reasoning mechanisms people are endowed with, the task cannot be a good tool for the study of these reasoning mechanisms".


Résultat :

"The present results corroborate our predictions and confirm the analysis of Sperber et al. (1995). We showed that the same rule, whether it is tested descriptively or deontically, can be made to yield more P and Q selections or more P and not-Q selections by acting on intuitions of relevance."

Jean-Baptiste Van der Henst (2002). La perspective pragmatique dans l’étude du raisonnement et de la rationalité. L’Année Psychologique, 102, 65-108
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