{"title":"How does institutional reasoning develop?","authors":"Marjorie Rhodes, Duygu Yilmaz","doi":"10.1017/S0140525X26105640","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The authors propose that humans are endowed with the \"institutional stance\" - a capacity to interpret social behavior through roles within institutional structures. We consider that this capacity might reflect a developmental achievement rather than a starting point. Early social reasoning may reflect domain-general tendencies to represent kinds with normative properties, with generative institutional reasoning emerging later with differentiated representations of individuals.</p>","PeriodicalId":8698,"journal":{"name":"Behavioral and Brain Sciences","volume":"49 ","pages":"e385"},"PeriodicalIF":8.2000,"publicationDate":"2026-09-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Behavioral and Brain Sciences","FirstCategoryId":"102","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1017/S0140525X26105640","RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q1","JCRName":"BEHAVIORAL SCIENCES","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
The authors propose that humans are endowed with the "institutional stance" - a capacity to interpret social behavior through roles within institutional structures. We consider that this capacity might reflect a developmental achievement rather than a starting point. Early social reasoning may reflect domain-general tendencies to represent kinds with normative properties, with generative institutional reasoning emerging later with differentiated representations of individuals.
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Behavioral and Brain Sciences (BBS) is a highly respected journal that employs an innovative approach called Open Peer Commentary. This format allows for the publication of noteworthy and contentious research from various fields including psychology, neuroscience, behavioral biology, and cognitive science. Each article is accompanied by 20-40 commentaries from experts across these disciplines, as well as a response from the author themselves. This unique setup creates a captivating forum for the exchange of ideas, critical analysis, and the integration of research within the behavioral and brain sciences, spanning topics from molecular neurobiology and artificial intelligence to the philosophy of the mind.