The Meaning of “Natural” Process More Important Than Content

摘要: The meaning of the desirable attribute “natural” was explored in two samples, American college students and adults Philadelphia jury pool. Participants rated naturalness a variety entities, before after they were transformed by operations such as freezing, adding or removing components, mixing with other natural unnatural domestication, genetic engineering. Results support four hypotheses. First, principle contagion accounts for many aspects reduction contact entities. Second, chemical transformations reduce much more than physical do. Third, history an entity's processing is important determining its nature contents. Fourth, like entities (e.g., water from different sources) does not markedly naturalness. insertion gene another species, process used producing genetically modified organis...