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Forstmann, Matthias and Burgmer, Pascal ORCID: 0000-0003-3664-0539 (2018). The mind of the market: Lay beliefs about the economy as a willful, goal-oriented agent. Behav. Brain Sci., 41. NEW YORK: CAMBRIDGE UNIV PRESS. ISSN 1469-1825

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Abstract

We propose an extension to Boyer & Petersen's (B&P's) framework for folk-economic beliefs, suggesting that certain evolutionarily acquired cognitive inference systems can cause modern humans to perceive abstract systems such as the economy as willful, goal-oriented agents. Such an anthropomorphized view, we argue, can have meaningful effects on people's moral evaluations of these agents, as well as on their political and economic behavior.

Item Type:	Journal Article
Creators:	Creators Email ORCID ORCID Put Code Forstmann, Matthias UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED Burgmer, Pascal UNSPECIFIED orcid.org/0000-0003-3664-0539 UNSPECIFIED
URN:	urn:nbn:de:hbz:38-199459
DOI:	10.1017/S0140525X18000353
Journal or Publication Title:	Behav. Brain Sci.
Volume:	41
Date:	2018
Publisher:	CAMBRIDGE UNIV PRESS
Place of Publication:	NEW YORK
ISSN:	1469-1825
Language:	English
Faculty:	Faculty of Management, Economy and Social Sciences
Divisions:	Faculty of Management, Economics and Social Sciences > Social Sciences > Sociology and Social Psychology > Department of Scociology
Subjects:	no entry
Uncontrolled Keywords:	Keywords Language Psychology, Biological; Behavioral Sciences; Neurosciences Multiple languages
Refereed:	Yes
URI:	http://kups.ub.uni-koeln.de/id/eprint/19945