Cueing Implicit Commitment

Citation

Bonalumi F, Isella M & Michael J (2019) Cueing Implicit Commitment. Review of Philosophy and Psychology, 10 (4), pp. 669-688. https://doi.org/10.1007/s13164-018-0425-0

Abstract
Despite the importance of commitment for distinctively human forms of sociality, it remains unclear how people prioritize and evaluate their own and others’ commitments - especially implicit commitments. Across two sets of online studies, we found evidence in support of the hypothesis that people’s judgments and attitudes about implicit commitments are governed by an implicit sense of commitment, which is modulated by cues to others’ expectations, and by cues to the costs others have invested on the basis of those expectations.

Keywords
Philosophy; Experimental and Cognitive Psychology

Journal
Review of Philosophy and Psychology: Volume 10, Issue 4

• Accepted manuscript