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Intuitive biology, moral reasoning, and engineering life: essentialist thinking and moral purity concerns shape risk assessments of synthetic biology technologies

2018-07-10

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<p>The field of synthetic biology heralds a new era in our relationship with nature, as organisms are engineered to meet human goals. But little attention has been paid to potential cognitive constraints on reasoning about such technologies. Across three studies with American adults (N = 453), the present research investigates the proposal that essentialist reasoning and moral purity concerns conspire to shape ris...

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10.31234/osf.io/pzy98
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