Katharina Buczek
During the second phase of the study, participants were then asked to list 10 single-word adjectives to describe the politicians and animals. Afterward, they were instructed to rate the politicians’ and animals’ features. For instance, the intelligence of a finch.
The researchers’ previous findings from phase one were only underscored, though, since they found that people had radically different definitions of basic concepts. On the one hand, participants were able to agree that seals do not have feathers; however, they did not agree about how graceful seals are.
Kidd believes this research is of utmost importance since it displays how most people we encounter and perhaps disagree with will not have the same concepts of even the most basic things, such as animals.
“When people are disagreeing, it may not always be about what they think it is. It could be stemming from something as simple as their concepts not being aligned,” Kidd concluded.
To read the study’s complete findings, which have since been published in MIT Press Direct, visit the link here.
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