Our theoretical understanding of individual differences can be used as a tool to test and
refine theory. Individual differences are useful because judgments, including philosophically
relevant intuitions, are the predictable products of the fit between adaptive psychological
mechanisms (eg, heuristics, traits, skills, capacities) and task constraints. As an illustration of
this method and its potential implications, our target article used a canonical, representative,
and affectively charged judgment task to reveal a relationship between the heritable …