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paper:
paper_id: turrietalndactionabilityjudgmentscause
citation: "Turri, J., Buckwalter, W., & Rose, D. (2016). Actionability Judgments Cause Knowledge Judgments. Thought: A Journal of Philosophy, 5(3), 212–222."
short_label: "Turri et al. 2016"
doi: "10.1002/tht3.213"
published: "Yes"
year: 2016
language: "English"
language_other: null
research_objective: "Test whether actionability judgments cause knowledge judgments (or vice versa) using causal modeling across two experiments manipulating practical stakes."
data_availability:
data_available_online: null
url: null
notes: null
notes: null
studies:
- study_id: 1
label: "Experiment 1"
objective: "Test the relationship between stakes, actionability judgments, and knowledge judgments in an intelligence-analyst vignette (Low vs High stakes; multiple dependent measures including knowledge)."
sample:
n_final: 200
recruitment: "mTurk"
recruitment_other: null
compensation: "money"
compensation_other: "$0.40 for approximately 2–3 minutes."
characteristics: "Aged 18–68 years (mean age = 31); 94% reported English as a native language; 80 females."
mean_age: 31
mean_age_prov:
page: null
quote: "Two hundred participants (aged 18-68 years, mean age = 31 years; 94% reporting English as a native language; 80 females) were tested."
tei_id: null
table_ref: null
provenance:
page: null
quote: "Two hundred participants (aged 18-68 years, mean age = 31 years; 94% reporting English as a native language; 80 females) were tested. Participants were recruited and tested online using Amazon Mechanical Turk and Qualtrics and compensated $0.40 for approximately 2-3 minutes of their time."
tei_id: null
table_ref: null
design: "Between-Subjects"
design_other: null
manipulated_factors: []
paradigm: "Agreement with knowledge claim"
paradigm_other: null
scale:
label: "Likert 7-point"
points: 7
anchors: "\"strongly disagree\" … \"strongly agree\""
direction: "Higher numbers indicate stronger agreement with the statement."
provenance:
page: null
quote: "Responses were collected on a standard 7-point Likert scale anchored with \"strongly disagree,\" \"disagree,\" \"somewhat disagree,\" \"neutral,\" \"somewhat agree,\" \"agree,\" and \"strongly agree,\" left-to-right on the participant's screen. Responses were coded 1 (strongly disagree) to 7 (strongly agree)."
tei_id: null
table_ref: null
measures:
knowledge_question_text: "Jennifer knows that Ivan no longer [jogs regularly/is a threat]."
knowledge_question_first: null
additional_question_text: null
scenarios: []
effects:
- effect_id: s1_e1
subgroup: "Experiment 1 — Knowledge judgment"
subgroup_desc: "Agreement with third-person knowledge attribution (Jennifer knows …)"
design: "Between-Subjects"
design_other: null
moderators:
scenario: other
skeptical_pressure: "No"
awareness: "Yes"
evidence: "External"
attribution_person: "Other"
evidence_reliability: null
moderators_coding:
scenario:
provenance:
page: null
quote: "Jennifer is an intelligence analyst developing a file on Ivan, an elusive foreign operative."
tei_id: null
table_ref: null
reason: "The vignette is about an intelligence report on a foreign operative (not bank/peanuts/bridge/typos)."
skeptical_pressure:
provenance:
page: null
quote: "Jennifer has a source who tells her that Ivan stopped [his low-carb diet/selling arms to terrorists] and is no longer [jogging regularly/a threat]."
tei_id: null
table_ref: null
reason: "No explicit doubt/counterconsideration is introduced; the protagonist receives testimony from a source."
awareness:
provenance:
page: null
quote: "If Ivan still [jogs regularly/is a threat], there will be serious consequences."
tei_id: null
table_ref: null
reason: "The stakes (serious consequences) are explicitly described in the scenario presented to participants."
evidence:
provenance:
page: null
quote: "Jennifer has a source who tells her that Ivan stopped [his low-carb diet/selling arms to terrorists] and is no longer [jogging regularly/a threat]."
tei_id: null
table_ref: null
reason: "The evidence basis is testimony from another person (a source), i.e., external evidence."
attribution_person:
provenance:
page: null
quote: "Jennifer knows that Ivan no longer [jogs regularly/is a threat]."
tei_id: null
table_ref: null
reason: "Participants rate agreement with a third-person attribution ('Jennifer knows …'), not a self-ascription."
evidence_reliability:
provenance:
page: null
quote: "Jennifer has a source who tells her that Ivan stopped [his low-carb diet/selling arms to terrorists] and is no longer [jogging regularly/a threat]."
tei_id: null
table_ref: null
reason: "The source’s reliability is not specified/manipulated, so evidence_reliability is coded as null."
contrast:
group_high: high
group_low: low
sign_convention: "d = mean(low) - mean(high)"
other_notes: "7-point agreement rating; higher = more agreement with knowledge statement."
groups:
- group_id: low
label: "Low stakes"
n: null
mean: 4.53
sd: 1.73
se: null
provenance:
page: 5
quote: "Knowledge,4.53 (1.73),3.49 (1.65),4.36,198.0,<.001,1.04,0.62,0.57 1.51"
tei_id: null
table_ref: "tabula_stream_p5_t1.csv"
- group_id: high
label: "High stakes"
n: null
mean: 3.49
sd: 1.65
se: null
provenance:
page: 5
quote: "Knowledge,4.53 (1.73),3.49 (1.65),4.36,198.0,<.001,1.04,0.62,0.57 1.51"
tei_id: null
table_ref: "tabula_stream_p5_t1.csv"
reported_test:
test: "t"
t: 4.36
f: null
chi2: null
z: null
df1: 198
df2: null
p: null
reported_d: 0.62
reported_r: null
notes: "Independent samples t-test; table reports d."
provenance:
page: 5
quote: "Knowledge,4.53 (1.73),3.49 (1.65),4.36,198.0,<.001,1.04,0.62,0.57 1.51"
tei_id: null
table_ref: "tabula_stream_p5_t1.csv"
effect_size:
metric: SMD
d: 0.620000000000
v: 0.021192068909
computed_from: reported_d
needs_review: false
notes: "d from Table 1; v computed from reported d + t(df) in analysis/effect_sizes.qmd (method=between_reported_d_t_df)."
quality_flags: []
notes: null
- study_id: 2
label: "Experiment 2"
objective: "Replicate the causal-modeling approach in a coffee-menu vignette with a Low vs High stakes manipulation; dependent measures include actionability and knowledge judgments."
sample:
n_final: 205
recruitment: "mTurk"
recruitment_other: null
compensation: "money"
compensation_other: null
characteristics: "Aged 18–72 years (mean age = 32); 96% reported English as a native language; 101 females."
mean_age: 32
mean_age_prov:
page: null
quote: "Two hundred and five participants (aged 18-72 years, mean age = 32 years; 96% reporting English as a native language; 101 females) were tested."
tei_id: null
table_ref: null
provenance:
page: null
quote: "Two hundred and five participants (aged 18-72 years, mean age = 32 years; 96% reporting English as a native language; 101 females) were tested."
tei_id: null
table_ref: null
design: "Between-Subjects"
design_other: null
manipulated_factors: []
paradigm: "Agreement with knowledge claim"
paradigm_other: null
scale:
label: "Likert 7-point"
points: 7
anchors: "\"strongly disagree\" … \"strongly agree\""
direction: "Higher numbers indicate stronger agreement with the statement."
provenance:
page: null
quote: "Responses were collected on a standard 7-point Likert scale anchored with \"strongly disagree,\" \"disagree,\" \"somewhat disagree,\" \"neutral,\" \"somewhat agree,\" \"agree,\" and \"strongly agree,\" left-to-right on the participant's screen. Responses were coded 1 (strongly disagree) to 7 (strongly agree)."
tei_id: null
table_ref: null
measures:
knowledge_question_text: "Christina knows that the coffee [is from northern Colombia/contains pine nuts]."
knowledge_question_first: null
additional_question_text: null
scenarios: []
effects:
- effect_id: s2_e1
subgroup: "Experiment 2 — Knowledge judgment"
subgroup_desc: "Agreement with third-person knowledge attribution (Christina knows …)"
design: "Between-Subjects"
design_other: null
moderators:
scenario: peanuts
skeptical_pressure: "No"
awareness: "Yes"
evidence: "First Person"
attribution_person: "Other"
evidence_reliability: null
moderators_coding:
scenario:
provenance:
page: null
quote: "Christina knows that the coffee [is from northern Colombia/contains pine nuts]."
tei_id: null
table_ref: null
reason: "The vignette concerns whether food contains nuts (pine nuts), matching the peanuts/allergy scenario family."
skeptical_pressure:
provenance:
page: null
quote: "Christina observes that the latest shipment of coffee [is from northern Colombia/contains trace amounts of pine nuts]."
tei_id: "tab_2"
table_ref: null
reason: "No explicit counterconsideration or doubt is introduced; the protagonist observes the relevant fact."
awareness:
provenance:
page: null
quote: "If the coffee [is from northern Colombia/contains pine nuts], there could be serious consequences."
tei_id: null
table_ref: null
reason: "The stakes (serious consequences) are explicitly described in the scenario presented to participants."
evidence:
provenance:
page: null
quote: "Christina observes that the latest shipment of coffee [is from northern Colombia/contains trace amounts of pine nuts]."
tei_id: "tab_2"
table_ref: null
reason: "The evidence is based on the protagonist’s own observation (first-person evidence)."
attribution_person:
provenance:
page: null
quote: "Christina knows that the coffee [is from northern Colombia/contains pine nuts]."
tei_id: null
table_ref: null
reason: "Participants rate agreement with a third-person attribution ('Christina knows …'), not a self-ascription."
evidence_reliability:
provenance:
page: null
quote: "Christina observes that the latest shipment of coffee [is from northern Colombia/contains trace amounts of pine nuts]."
tei_id: "tab_2"
table_ref: null
reason: "The paper does not specify/manipulate source reliability, so evidence_reliability is coded as null."
contrast:
group_high: high
group_low: low
sign_convention: "d = mean(low) - mean(high)"
other_notes: "7-point agreement rating; higher = more agreement with knowledge statement."
groups:
- group_id: low
label: "Low stakes"
n: null
mean: 6.13
sd: 1.11
se: null
provenance:
page: 7
quote: "Knowledge,6.13 (1.11),6.19 (1.13),−0.38,203.0,.702,−0.06,0.05,−0.37 0.25"
tei_id: null
table_ref: "tabula_stream_p7_t2.csv"
- group_id: high
label: "High stakes"
n: null
mean: 6.19
sd: 1.13
se: null
provenance:
page: 7
quote: "Knowledge,6.13 (1.11),6.19 (1.13),−0.38,203.0,.702,−0.06,0.05,−0.37 0.25"
tei_id: null
table_ref: "tabula_stream_p7_t2.csv"
reported_test:
test: "t"
t: -0.38
f: null
chi2: null
z: null
df1: 203
df2: null
p: 0.702
reported_d: 0.05
reported_r: null
notes: "Independent samples t-test; table reports |d|, so sign is inferred from group means (mean_low < mean_high)."
provenance:
page: 7
quote: "Knowledge,6.13 (1.11),6.19 (1.13),−0.38,203.0,.702,−0.06,0.05,−0.37 0.25"
tei_id: null
table_ref: "tabula_stream_p7_t2.csv"
effect_size:
metric: SMD
d: -0.050000000000
v: 0.017319177026
computed_from: reported_d
needs_review: false
notes: "d from Table 2 (signed using mean_low-mean_high); v computed from reported d + t(df) in analysis/effect_sizes.qmd (method=between_reported_d_t_df)."
quality_flags: []
notes: null