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| A leading account holds that, under time pressure, people lose the ability to distinguish impossible events from merely improbable, irrational, or immoral ones, collapsing all four into a single "not-viable" category. Across three preregistered speeded experiments (total N = 609), we show that what looks like collapse is actually pragmatic compression: people preserve the full resolution of physical, moral, rational, and probabilistic distinctions, and what changes under time pressure is just how that information gets mapped onto whichever response options the question makes available. |
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