Knowledge Attributions and Behavioral Predictions

Turri, J. (2017). Knowledge attributions and behavioral predictions. Cognitive science, 41(8), 2253–2261.

Recent work has shown that knowledge attributions affect how people think others should behave, more so than belief attributions do. This paper reports two experiments providing evidence that (i) knowledge attributions also affect behavioral predictions more strongly than belief attributions do, and (ii) knowledge attributions facilitate faster behavioral predictions than belief attributions do. Thus knowledge attributions play multiple critical roles in social cognition, guiding judgments about how people should and will behave.