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Norms Affect Prospective Causal Judgments

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Henne, P; O'Neill, K; Bello, P; Khemlani, S; De Brigard, F
December 30, 2019

People more frequently select norm-violating factors, relative to norm-conforming ones, as the cause of some outcome. Until recently, this abnormal-selection effect has been studied using retrospective vignette-based paradigms. We use a novel set of video stimuli to investigate this effect for prospective causal judgments—i.e., judgments about the cause of some future outcome. Four experiments show that people more frequently select norm-violating factors, relative to norm-conforming ones, as the cause of some future outcome. We show that the abnormal-selection effects are not primarily explained by the perception of agency (Experiment 4). We discuss these results in relation to recent efforts to model causal judgment.

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Henne, P., O’Neill, K., Bello, P., Khemlani, S., & De Brigard, F. (2019). Norms Affect Prospective Causal Judgments. https://doi.org/10.31219/osf.io/2nwb4
Henne, Paul, Kevin O’Neill, Paul Bello, Sangeet Khemlani, and Felipe De Brigard. “Norms Affect Prospective Causal Judgments,” December 30, 2019. https://doi.org/10.31219/osf.io/2nwb4.
Henne P, O’Neill K, Bello P, Khemlani S, De Brigard F. Norms Affect Prospective Causal Judgments. 2019 Dec 30;
Henne, Paul, et al. Norms Affect Prospective Causal Judgments. Dec. 2019. Crossref, doi:10.31219/osf.io/2nwb4.
Henne P, O’Neill K, Bello P, Khemlani S, De Brigard F. Norms Affect Prospective Causal Judgments. 2019 Dec 30;

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