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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
Published in: Cognitive science
January 2021

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-that is, 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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Cognitive science

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EISSN

1551-6709

ISSN

0364-0213

Publication Date

January 2021

Volume

45

Issue

1

Start / End Page

e12931

Related Subject Headings

  • Prospective Studies
  • Judgment
  • Humans
  • Experimental Psychology
  • Causality
  • 5204 Cognitive and computational psychology
  • 5202 Biological psychology
  • 5201 Applied and developmental psychology
  • 1702 Cognitive Sciences
  • 1701 Psychology
 

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Henne, P., O’Neill, K., Bello, P., Khemlani, S., & De Brigard, F. (2021). Norms Affect Prospective Causal Judgments. Cognitive Science, 45(1), e12931. https://doi.org/10.1111/cogs.12931
Henne, Paul, Kevin O’Neill, Paul Bello, Sangeet Khemlani, and Felipe De Brigard. “Norms Affect Prospective Causal Judgments.Cognitive Science 45, no. 1 (January 2021): e12931. https://doi.org/10.1111/cogs.12931.
Henne P, O’Neill K, Bello P, Khemlani S, De Brigard F. Norms Affect Prospective Causal Judgments. Cognitive science. 2021 Jan;45(1):e12931.
Henne, Paul, et al. “Norms Affect Prospective Causal Judgments.Cognitive Science, vol. 45, no. 1, Jan. 2021, p. e12931. Epmc, doi:10.1111/cogs.12931.
Henne P, O’Neill K, Bello P, Khemlani S, De Brigard F. Norms Affect Prospective Causal Judgments. Cognitive science. 2021 Jan;45(1):e12931.
Journal cover image

Published In

Cognitive science

DOI

EISSN

1551-6709

ISSN

0364-0213

Publication Date

January 2021

Volume

45

Issue

1

Start / End Page

e12931

Related Subject Headings

  • Prospective Studies
  • Judgment
  • Humans
  • Experimental Psychology
  • Causality
  • 5204 Cognitive and computational psychology
  • 5202 Biological psychology
  • 5201 Applied and developmental psychology
  • 1702 Cognitive Sciences
  • 1701 Psychology