How do people perceive 'existence with a good heart' and 'existence with an evil heart'?

In manga and anime, characters representing 'good heart' and 'evil heart' appear on both sides of the characters, and it is familiar to the scene where both people with different personalities and ways of thinking argue. Newly, research teams in the United Kingdom and Canada have investigated how people perceive 'good beings' and 'evil beings.'

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Research teams at the University of York in the United Kingdom and the University of Waterloo in Canada said, 'In movies and folk tales, the devil often tries to fulfill people's' unintended wishes, 'while angels make people's' real wishes. ' He was interested in the fact that he often recognizes it correctly.

Therefore, the research team conducted an experiment to investigate how people perceive 'existence with a good heart' and 'existence with an evil heart.' In the experiment, the subjects were asked to read a short story with a scenario that 'the hero tries to have a human being or a supernatural being fulfill his wish' and evaluate whether the hero's wish can be fulfilled. matter.

The target that the hero makes a wish is either 'a human with a good heart', 'a supernatural being with a good heart', 'a human with an evil heart', or 'a supernatural being with an evil heart'. There were various wishes, ranging from 'appropriately reflecting the hero's intentions' to 'things that deviated from the hero's true intentions.'

As a result of the experiment, if the subject to make a wish is 'a human being with a good heart / a supernatural being', whether the wish of the hero can be fulfilled depending on whether the wish of the hero properly reflects the intention of the person. Was evaluated as being affected. On the other hand, when the object to make a wish is 'a human being with an evil heart / a supernatural being', it is often evaluated that the hero's wish is to be fulfilled regardless of the original intention. It was said that.

The results of this experiment suggest that people recognize that 'existence with a good heart is sensitive to the intention of the other person' and 'existence with an evil heart is indifferent to the intention of the other person'. I am. Brandon Golding, a co-author of the treatise and a PhD student at the University of Waterloo, said: May be one factor in considering a good person as a bad person, while we think that a good person takes into account the intent of someone in addition to what they actually did. '

'This study teaches us something very interesting about how people perceive good and evil,' said Ori Friedman, a professor of developmental psychology at the University of Waterloo. Friedman argued that people think of beings with good and evil minds in relation to 'whether they can understand and consider the intentions of the other person.'