Perceived moral standing tracks where entities fall on the two mind dimensions.

Evidence

Normal adult humans (including the respondent) were seen as high in both Experience and Agency, whereas the infant and animals were seen with Experience but not Agency—entities for which people see “someone is home” but with diminished capacities to act. Cases such as the fetus and persistent vegetative state man were seen with some capacity for Experience but little Agency. The dead woman was ascribed neither Experience nor Agency, whereas the robot and God were perceived as Agents with little capacity for Experience. — Kurt Gray and Daniel M. Wegner, Moral Typecasting, 18

Categorization

• CANDY: Nice icebreaker fact: people rate God and robots as capable agents with almost no experience, while fetuses and infants get experience but little agency.
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Kurt Gray and Daniel M. Wegner, Moral Typecasting: Divergent…, 18
• XREF: connects to: Factor-analytic orthogonality of mind dimensions does not rule out inverse moral perception — Kurt Gray and Daniel M. Wegner, Moral Typecasting: Divergent…, 31; Perceived moral agency and perceived moral patiency vary inversely across targets — Kurt Gray and Daniel M. Wegner, Moral Typecasting: Divergent…, 39; Moral agency and patiency can be cleanly measured through resistance-to-pain and responsibility scenarios — Kurt Gray and Daniel M. Wegner, Moral Typecasting: Divergent…, 126 (+1 more)

Broader Connections

• Perceiving someone as a moral agent reduces perceived moral patiency. #exemplifies (0.90) — Kurt Gray and Daniel M. Wegner, Moral Typecasting, 1
• Perceived moral agency and perceived moral patiency vary inversely across targets #expands (0.88) — Kurt Gray and Daniel M. Wegner, Moral Typecasting, 39
• Factor-analytic orthogonality of mind dimensions does not rule out inverse moral perception #responds-to (0.78) — Kurt Gray and Daniel M. Wegner, Moral Typecasting, 31
• Moral agency and patiency can be cleanly measured through resistance-to-pain and responsibility scenarios #complicates (0.75) — Kurt Gray and Daniel M. Wegner, Moral Typecasting, 126