Kerem Oktar
Biographic Data
| ID | 8826375 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Kerem Oktar |
| GIVEN NAMES | Kerem |
| FAMILY NAME | Oktar |
| SIGNATURE | OKTAR K |
| AFFILIATIONS | Princeton University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0118-5065 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 3 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 3 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Learning From Aggregated Opinion
The capacity to leverage information from others’ opinions is a hallmark of human cognition. Consequently, past research has investigated how we learn from others’ testimony. Yet a distinct form of social information— aggregated opinion—increasingly guides our judgments and decisions. We investigated how people learn from such information by conducting three experiments with participants recruited online within the United States ( N = 886) compar…
Philosophy instruction changes views on moral controversies by decreasing reliance on intuition
What changes people's judgments on moral issues, such as the ethics of abortion or eating meat? On some views, moral judgments result from deliberation, such that reasons and reasoning should be primary drivers of moral change. On other views, moral judgments reflect intuition, with reasons offered as post-hoc rationalizations. We test predictions of these accounts by investigating whether exposure to a moral philosophy course (vs. control course…
Deciding to be authentic
Deliberative analysis enables us to weigh features, simulate futures, and arrive at good, tractable decisions. So why do we so often eschew deliberation, and instead rely on more intuitive, gut responses? We propose that intuition might be prescribed for some decisions because people's folk theory of decision-making accords a special role to authenticity, which is associated with intuitive choice. Five pre-registered experiments find evidence in …
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Deciding to be authentic
Deliberative analysis enables us to weigh features, simulate futures, and arrive at good, tractable decisions. So why do we so often eschew deliberation, and instead rely on more intuitive, gut responses? We propose that intuition might be prescribed for some decisions because people's folk theory of decision-making accords a special role to authenticity, which is associated with intuitive choice. Five pre-registered experiments find evidence in …
Philosophy instruction changes views on moral controversies by decreasing reliance on intuition
What changes people's judgments on moral issues, such as the ethics of abortion or eating meat? On some views, moral judgments result from deliberation, such that reasons and reasoning should be primary drivers of moral change. On other views, moral judgments reflect intuition, with reasons offered as post-hoc rationalizations. We test predictions of these accounts by investigating whether exposure to a moral philosophy course (vs. control course…
Learning From Aggregated Opinion
The capacity to leverage information from others’ opinions is a hallmark of human cognition. Consequently, past research has investigated how we learn from others’ testimony. Yet a distinct form of social information— aggregated opinion—increasingly guides our judgments and decisions. We investigated how people learn from such information by conducting three experiments with participants recruited online within the United States ( N = 886) compar…
Cognitive science (3 works) · Psychology (3 works) · Social Psychology (3 works) · Cognitive psychology (2 works) · Deliberation (2 works) · Epistemology (2 works) · Experimental Behavioral Economics Studies (2 works) · Intuition (2 works) · Philosophy (2 works) · Psychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment (2 works)