pinillos2024bankcasesstakes
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paper:
paper_id: pinillos2024bankcasesstakes
citation: "Pinillos, N. Á. (2024). Bank Cases, Stakes, and Normative Facts. In S. Nichols & J. Knobe (Eds.), Oxford Studies\
\ in Experimental Philosophy, Volume 5 (Chapter 15). Oxford University Press. \r\nhttps://doi.org/10.1093/9780198918905.003.0015"
short_label: Pinillos 2024
doi: null
published: 'Yes'
year: 2024
language: English
language_other: null
research_objective: Report an original study using modified bank cases to test whether ordinary knowledge attributions vary
across stakes conditions, and argue that the psychological driver is attention to explicitly stated normative facts (appropriateness
of assuming the proposition in reasoning).
data_availability:
data_available_online: null
url: null
notes: null
notes: Bibliographic venue/DOI not recovered from pipeline outputs (paper appears to be an OUP book chapter; see TEI footnote).
studies:
- study_id: 1
label: The Study (Modified bank cases)
language: English
language_other: null
objective: Test whether ordinary attributions of knowledge vary across Modified High Stakes and Modified Low Stakes bank
cases (where normative facts framed as consequences of the stakes are explicitly stated).
sample:
n_final: 89
recruitment: mTurk
recruitment_other: null
compensation: money
compensation_other: $1.50 (US) per participant
characteristics: Amazon Mechanical Turk Master workers; adults residing in the US; ~8 minute survey; initial N=100; 11
disqualified for failing ≥1 comprehension check.
mean_age: null
provenance:
page: 13
quote: A total of 100 subjects were recruited through Amazon Turk to fill out an 8 minute survey... They were compensated
$1.50 each... I disqualified 11 participants... χ 2 (1, N = 89) = 30.9059
design: Between-Subjects
design_other: Each participant was assigned to either the Modified High Stakes or Modified Low Stakes vignette.
manipulated_factors: []
paradigm: Agreement with knowledge claim
paradigm_other: null
scale:
label: binary
points: 2
anchors: (a) Bob knows that the bank will be open on Saturday. (b) Bob thinks he knows that the bank will be open on Saturday,
but he doesn't actually know the bank will be open on Saturday.
direction: null
provenance:
page: 13
quote: (a) Bob knows that the bank will be open on Saturday. (b) Bob thinks he knows that the bank will be open on Saturday,
but he doesn't actually know the bank will be open on Saturday.
tei_id: fig_1
table_ref: TEI fig_1
measures:
knowledge_question_text: In your personal opinion, which better describes Bob's situation? (a) Bob knows that the bank
will be open on Saturday. (b) Bob thinks he knows that the bank will be open on Saturday, but he doesn't actually know
the bank will be open on Saturday.
knowledge_question_first: 'No'
additional_question_text: "After reading the study, they were asked two reading comprehension questions: “It is very important\
\ that Bob and \r\nhis wife deposit the check right away” and “It is appropriate for Bob and his wife to assume that\
\ the bank will be open Saturday.” Each of these questions were followed by three possible answers ‘True,’ ‘False,’\
\ and ‘Not Applicable.’ \r\nThe third question gets at knowledge attributions."
scenarios:
- scenario_code: bank
scenario_type: Modified DeRose-style bank-hours vignette with explicit normative fact about whether it is appropriate
to assume the bank will be open.
high_stakes_text: "Modified High Stakes: Bob and his wife are driving home on a Friday afternoon. They both received some\
\ money earlier in the day, and so they plan to stop at the bank on the way home to deposit it. But as they drive past\
\ the bank, they \r\nnotice that the lines inside are very long, as they often are on Friday after noons. They have\
\ recently written a very large and very important check. If the money is not deposited into their bank account before\
\ Monday morning, the important check they wrote will not be accepted by the bank, leaving them in a very bad situation.\
\ Bob suggests that they drive \r\nstraight home and deposit their money on Saturday morning. His wife says, “Maybe\
\ the bank won’t be open tomorrow. Lots of banks are closed on Saturdays.” Bob replies, “No, I know the bank will be\
\ open. I was just there two weeks ago on Saturday. It was open until noon.” As a matter of fact, the bank will be open\
\ on Saturday morning. The stakes are high for Bob and his wife. So based on Bob’s evidence, it’s not appropriate for\
\ them to assume in their reasoning that the bank will be open on Saturday."
low_stakes_text: 'Modified Low Stakes: Bob and his wife are driving home on a Friday afternoon. They both received some
money earlier in the day, and so they plan to stop at the bank on the way home to deposit it. But as they drive past
the bank, they notice that the lines inside are very long, as they often are on Friday afternoons. Although they generally
like to deposit any money they receive at the bank as soon as possible, it is not especially important in this case
that it be deposited right away. Bob suggests that they drive straight home and deposit their money on Saturday morning.
His wife says, “Maybe the bank won’t be open tomorrow. Lots of banks are closed on Saturdays.” Bob replies, “No, I
know the bank will be open. I was just there two weeks ago on Saturday. It was open until noon.” As a matter of fact,
the bank will be open on Saturday morning. The stakes are low for Bob and his wife. So based on Bob’s evidence, it’s
appropriate for them to assume in their reasoning that the bank will be open on Saturday.'
provenance:
page: null
quote: The stakes are low for Bob and his wife... it's appropriate for them to assume... the bank will be open on Saturday.
... The stakes are high... it's not appropriate for them to assume...
effects:
- effect_id: s1_e1
subgroup: Modified bank cases — knowledge attribution
subgroup_desc: 'Binary: proportion endorsing ''Bob knows'' (Modified Low vs Modified High Stakes)'
design: Between-Subjects
design_other: null
moderators:
scenario: bank
skeptical_pressure: 'Yes'
awareness: 'Yes'
evidence: First Person
attribution_person: Other
evidence_reliability: Medium
moderators_coding:
scenario:
provenance:
page: null
quote: Bob replies, "No, I know the bank will be open. I was just there two weeks ago on Saturday."
tei_id: null
table_ref: null
reason: Vignette is explicitly about whether the bank will be open on Saturday (bank-hours scenario).
skeptical_pressure:
provenance:
page: null
quote: His wife says, "Maybe the bank won't be open tomorrow. Lots of banks are closed on Saturdays."
tei_id: null
table_ref: null
reason: The vignette explicitly introduces doubt/counterconsiderations about whether the bank will be open.
awareness:
provenance:
page: null
quote: They have recently written a very large and very important check. If the money is not deposited... leaving
them in a very bad situation.
tei_id: null
table_ref: null
reason: Stakes are described as facts about Bob and his wife’s situation (implying the protagonist is aware of the
consequences).
evidence:
provenance:
page: null
quote: Bob replies, "No, I know the bank will be open. I was just there two weeks ago on Saturday. It was open until
noon."
tei_id: null
table_ref: null
reason: Agent’s evidence is his own recent experience/memory of visiting the bank (first-person evidence).
attribution_person:
provenance:
page: null
quote: (a) Bob knows that the bank will be open on Saturday.
tei_id: fig_1
table_ref: TEI fig_1
reason: Participants are asked to evaluate a third-person knowledge attribution about Bob.
evidence_reliability:
provenance:
page: null
quote: I was just there two weeks ago on Saturday.
tei_id: null
table_ref: null
reason: simple induction
contrast:
group_high: modified_high
group_low: modified_low
sign_convention: d = mean(low) - mean(high)
other_notes: Outcome mean = proportion endorsing the knowledge attribution ('Bob knows').
groups:
- group_id: modified_low
label: null
n: 49
mean: 0.714285714285714
sd: null
se: null
provenance:
page: 13
quote: In Modified Low Stakes, 35 (71%) people agreed Bob knows while 14 (29%) people said he doesn't know.
tei_id: null
table_ref: null
- group_id: modified_high
label: null
n: 40
mean: 0.125
sd: null
se: null
provenance:
page: 13
quote: In Modified High Stakes, only 5 (14%) people agreed that Bob knows... while 35 (86%) agree that he doesn't
know.
tei_id: null
table_ref: null
reported_test:
test: chi2
chi2: 30.9059
df1: 1.0
notes: Reported as p < .01; Cramer's V reported as .58.
provenance:
page: 13
quote: χ 2 (1, N = 89) = 30.9059, p < .01. Cramer's V is 58
effect_size:
metric: SMD
d: 1.578014050158
v: 0.099873738162
computed_from: groups
needs_review: false
notes: Computed from exact 2x2 counts via esc::esc_2x2 (OR -> d) in analysis/effect_sizes.qmd (method=between_2x2_or).
quality_flags: []
notes: null
notes: null