Add to ORKGResearch in the psychology of causal thinking has frequently revealed effects of normative considerations on causal attributions, where participants tend to assign causality more strongly to agents who violate a norm in bringing about an outcome. Across several experiments, we show that it is possible to reverse this norm effect when the outcome in question is good rather than bad: in these cases, participants assign causality more strongly to a norm-conforming agent than to an agent who violates a norm. We argue that this supports an explanation of the norm effect according to which it is due to a tendency to interpret statements of the form “X caused Y” or “X is the cause of Y” as assigning responsibility to X for bringing Y about
A series of recent studies indicate that people's moral judgments can impact their causal intuitions...
In this paper, we consider three competing explanations of the empirical finding that people’s causa...
Phillips et al. (2015) provide what looks like compelling evidence in favor of explaining the impact...
A growing body of literature has revealed ordinary causal judgement to be sensitive to normative fac...
There is now a great deal of evidence that norm violations impact people’s causal judgments. But it ...
In this paper, we consider two competing explanations of the empirical finding that people’s causal ...
Research indicates that norms matter for ordinary causal attributions. Across a range of cases in wh...
There is ample evidence that violations of injunctive norms impact ordinary causal attributions. Thi...
Recent work on the role of norms in the use of causal language by ordinary people has led to a cons...
A growing body of literature has revealed ordinary causal judgement to be sensitive to normative fac...
There is a growing consensus that norms matter for ordinary causal attributions. This has important ...
There is a large literature exploring the effect of norms on the attribution of causation. Empirical...
Phillips et al. (2015) provide what looks like compelling evidence in favor of explaining the impact...
It has recently been argued that normative considerations play an important role in causal cognition...
Recent research indicates that norms matter for ordinary causal attributions, although there is a go...
A series of recent studies indicate that people's moral judgments can impact their causal intuitions...
In this paper, we consider three competing explanations of the empirical finding that people’s causa...
Phillips et al. (2015) provide what looks like compelling evidence in favor of explaining the impact...
A growing body of literature has revealed ordinary causal judgement to be sensitive to normative fac...
There is now a great deal of evidence that norm violations impact people’s causal judgments. But it ...
In this paper, we consider two competing explanations of the empirical finding that people’s causal ...
Research indicates that norms matter for ordinary causal attributions. Across a range of cases in wh...
There is ample evidence that violations of injunctive norms impact ordinary causal attributions. Thi...
Recent work on the role of norms in the use of causal language by ordinary people has led to a cons...
A growing body of literature has revealed ordinary causal judgement to be sensitive to normative fac...
There is a growing consensus that norms matter for ordinary causal attributions. This has important ...
There is a large literature exploring the effect of norms on the attribution of causation. Empirical...
Phillips et al. (2015) provide what looks like compelling evidence in favor of explaining the impact...
It has recently been argued that normative considerations play an important role in causal cognition...
Recent research indicates that norms matter for ordinary causal attributions, although there is a go...
A series of recent studies indicate that people's moral judgments can impact their causal intuitions...
In this paper, we consider three competing explanations of the empirical finding that people’s causa...
Phillips et al. (2015) provide what looks like compelling evidence in favor of explaining the impact...