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Changing minds by tracking eyes: Dynamical systems, gaze and moral decisions

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Author

Editor

  • M. Knauff
  • M. Pauen
  • N. Sebanz
  • I. Wachsmuth

Summary, in English

Decision making is a dynamic process. Alternatives compete over time, and this competition plays out in sensorimotor processes. This is true not just for perceptual decisions or simple categorisation tasks, but also for moral decisions, which are the outcome of a complex interplay of intuition, emotion and reasoning. In this experiment, we first establish a descriptive and causal link between gaze and moral judgement. We then use eye movements to track the time course of participants’ moral decisions and show that by interrupting their decision process based on their gaze position, we are able to influence what they decide. We interpret this as evidence for a dynamical systems view of decision making and argue that our results provide new insights into how judgements are reached and constructed in our embodied minds.

Department/s

Publishing year

2013

Language

English

Publication/Series

Proceedings of the 35th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society

Document type

Conference paper

Publisher

Cognitive Science Society, Inc

Topic

  • Computer Vision and Robotics (Autonomous Systems)
  • Psychology (excluding Applied Psychology)

Keywords

  • Decision making
  • morality
  • dynamic systems
  • eye tracking

Conference name

CogSci 2013

Conference date

2013-08-01

Conference place

Berlin, Germany

Status

Published

Research group

  • Lund University Cognitive Science (LUCS)