[nfbwatlk] Study to investigate how blind people visualize emotional situations and make moral judgements

[Mike Freeman]

Yeah but Arielle should have nipped this one in the bud.

Mike Freeman
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On Jan 22, 2013, at 7:32, "Prows, Bennett (HHS/OCR)" <Bennett.Prows at HHS.GOV> wrote:

> Steve,
> 
> Welcome to the list.  While I agree with your sentiments, and if it were a college study that was supposed to have some national import I would oppose it, since it is high schoolers doing this, and they are wanting probably mostly to learn about blind people and blindness, I think we could respond to their inquiries. Only if it goes the "wrong" way should we begin looking at what it means to us.  Others may have other ideas.
> 
> /s/
> 
> Bennett Prows 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: nfbwatlk [mailto:nfbwatlk-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Steve Ice
> Sent: Monday, January 21, 2013 9:09 PM
> To: nfbwatlk at nfbnet.org
> Subject: Re: [nfbwatlk] Study to investigate how blind people visualize emotional situations and make moral judgements
> 
> I always enjoy helping students but consider this endeavor flawed. The
> sense of proportionality used in making decisions regarding fairness and
> justice would arise well enough from any number of sensory modalities.
> Emotional situations differ from just decision making in that they are
> 'hot' feeling states and, in my experience, a subjects response is queued
> more by voice, intonation and breathing - no 'visualization' required.
> I don't want to be negative here, on my first post,  but It just feels
> wrong to respond to a study that asks if blind people make moral decision
> differently than sighted people.
> 
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> Stephen Ice
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