Hi there,
Can anyone point me in the direction of a study that has assessed syllogistic reasoning (a form of deductive reasoning) with syllogisms that have 'social content'. For example, syllogisms whereby the premises relate to 'friendship', 'relationships' , 'beliefs about social relationships' etc.
Many research studies have used all sorts of content (positive, negative, extreme, emotional provocative etc.) but to date I cannot find a study that has used social content.
I have tried to make them up myself but this has come to no avail.
Any help would be gratefully appreciated.
P.S - I have attached an example of some "traditional" syllogisms to this message to provide an indication of what syllogisms are and how they work.
Cheers
Marcus, can you pass me some studies with positive, negative, extreme, emotional provocative syllogisms?
I am planning an experiment upon syllogisms, but I do not have scientific experience in them. Maybe, we could help each other.
Philadelphia, PA
Dear Lewton,
Speaking as one who has often taught logic and published much or related topics, I'd say that general familiarity with a given subject-matter tends to increase facility for logical inferences involving that subject-matter. Since "social content" is a theme of general interest, I think it would be possible to show that logical facility will be sharper in that area of discourse. However, one might also suspect a generalized tendency to go beyond the information actually supplied by particular premises of a syllogism or other argument.
See the opening pages of my paper "Semantic Contextualism and Scientific Pluralism," for illustrations--though I am not specifically concerned with syllogism there.
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/272786211_Semantic_Contextualism_and_Scientific_Pluralism
H.G. Callaway
Article Semantic Contextualism and Scientific Pluralism
Hi, I have these papers that I thought might be relevant to your question. The first three more than the last one but thoguht to pass this on in case.
Here are the titles:
An ERP investigation of conditional reasoning with emotional and neutral contents by Blanchette et al., 2014
Dissociable neural systems underwrite logical reasoning in the context of induced emotions with positive and negative valence, Smith et al., 2014
Reasoning about highly emotional topics: Syllogistic reasoning in a group of war veterans, Blanchette et al., 2012
Does emotion help or hinder reasoning? The moderating role of relevance, Blanchette et al., 2014
Hope it helps,
Cheers,
Maryam
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