Generalizing Kant's Distinction Between Perfect and Imperfect Duties to Trust in Different Situations
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
12-1-2009
Abstract
Based on previous research that violations of perfect duties cause stronger correspondent inferences than violations of imperfect ones, the authors performed four experiments to generalize this effect to trust. In Experiment 1, abstract violations of perfect duties resulted in less trust than violations of imperfect ones for specific trust scenarios. In Experiments 2 and 3, the authors experimented with different levels of abstractness of the duty violations and obtained similar effects. Experiment 4 was concerned with generalizing further-from duty violations in one situation to trust in a different situation. Although mostly consistent with the findings from Experiments 1-3, the data also demonstrated partial generalization for violations of both perfect and imperfect duties.
DOI
10.1080/00221300903293048
MSU Digital Commons Citation
Rice, Stephen; Trafimow, David; Hunt, Gayle; and Sandry, Joshua, "Generalizing Kant's Distinction Between Perfect and Imperfect Duties to Trust in Different Situations" (2009). Department of Psychology Faculty Scholarship and Creative Works. 243.
https://digitalcommons.montclair.edu/psychology-facpubs/243