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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2021 Jul 1.
Published in final edited form as: Cogn Dev. 2020 Jun 9;55:100908. doi: 10.1016/j.cogdev.2020.100908

Table 1.

Overview of Interview

Initial evaluation Should A help?
Yes No
↙ ↘
Reasoning Why should A help? Why should A not help?
Obligation/permission Would it be okay if A did not help? Would it be okay if A did help?
Yes No Yes No
↓ ↓ ↓ ↓
Classification Supererogatory Obligatory Suberogatory Impermissible
Permission to act against rule If there was a rule against helping, would it be okay for A to help then? If there was a rule requiring helping, would it be okay not to help then?
Obligation to help a friend If A and R were friends, would it be okay not to help then?

Note. A = Agent; R = Recipient. Italicized words indicate participant responses. The question about obligation to help a friend was not asked for the relationship/no relationship events.