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name: Evaluation of social relations hypothesis
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  - wikipedia: en:823236@r1368949532
    locator: Wason selection task, section Explanations of performance on the task > Policing social rules > Evaluation of social relations hypothesis
    note: adopted
    mention: wikipedia://en/823236#UGX9
    sections: [Statement]
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## Statement

Davies et al. (1995) have argued that Cosmides and Tooby's argument in favor of context-sensitive, domain-specific reasoning mechanisms as opposed to general-purpose reasoning mechanisms is theoretically incoherent and inferentially unjustified. Von Sydow (2006) has argued that we have to distinguish deontic and descriptive conditionals, but that the logic of testing deontic conditionals is more systematic (see Beller, 2001) and depend on one's goals (see Sperber & Girotto, 2002). However, in response to Kanazawa (2010), Kaufman et al. (2011) gave 112 subjects a 70-item computerized version of the contextualized Wason card-selection task proposed by Cosmides and Tooby (1992) and found instead that "performance on non-arbitrary, evolutionarily familiar problems is more strongly related to general intelligence than performance on arbitrary, evolutionarily novel problems", and writing for *Psychology Today*, Kaufman concluded instead that "It seems that general intelligence is very much compatible with evolutionary psychology."