When contributions make a difference: Explaining order effects in responsibility attribution

Psychonomic Bulletin and Review

Volumn 19, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 729-736

  Gerstenberg, Tobias ^a   Lagnado, David A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Causal chain; Causal reasoning; Counterfactuals; Judgment and decision making; Order effect; Responsibility attribution; Social cognition

Indexed keywords

EID: 84864093826     PISSN: 10699384     EISSN: 15315320     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/s13423-012-0256-4     Document Type: Article

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