Do personality features influence our intuitions of the mind-body problem? A pilot study

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Alternative codes found

RIV/00216208:11120/18:43916927

Result on the web

<a href="https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2018.01219/full#h8" target="_blank" >https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2018.01219/full#h8</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2018.01219" target="_blank" >10.3389/fpsyg.2018.01219</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Do personality features influence our intuitions of the mind-body problem? A pilot study

Original language description

The elusive relationship between the mental domain and the physical brain, known as the mind-body problem, is still a hot topic of discussion among philosophers and neuroscientists. Rather than solving this problem, our pilot study addresses the question as to whether personality features could influence intuitions of the mind-body problem, or more precisely, whether it is possible to identify a person’s intuitive inclinations toward dualism or materialism and their inclinations toward reduction of the mind to the brain. For the purposes of this pilot study, we developed a questionnaire, which employed several theories of analytic philosophy of the mind, in order to determine which category the participants would belong to. These main categories were dualism, non-reductive materialism and reductive materialism. To test whether personality features affect preferences for these categories, the participants were investigated by Cloninger’s Temperament and Character Inventory (TCI). We found significant differences in the self-transcendence dimension of the TCI between participants who were evaluated as dualists and those who were assessed as reductive materialists. Our data show that the personality dimension of self-transcendence correlates with intuitive inclination toward reductive materialism or dualism. In addition, our results suggest that ideas, theories, and hypothetical solutions of the mind-body problem and possibly even conclusions, acceptance, and disputations of thought experiments of philosophy of the mind can be biased by personality traits. This fact should be taken into account in future discussions of the philosophy of the mind and may also be important for empirical research and an empirical understanding of the mind.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

50101 - Psychology (including human - machine relations)

Project

Result was created during the realization of more than one project. More information in the Projects tab.

Continuities

P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)

Publication year

2018

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Frontiers in Psychology

ISSN

1664-1078

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

9

Issue of the periodical within the volume

"Article Number: 1219"

Country of publishing house

CH - SWITZERLAND

Number of pages

10

Pages from-to

1-10

UT code for WoS article

000439410600001

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85050176125