Finding fault: Causality and counterfactuals in group attributions

Cognition

Volumn 125, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 429-440

  Zultan, Ro'i ^a   Gerstenberg, Tobias ^b   Lagnado, David A ^b  

^a BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Attribution; Causality; Counterfactuals; Groups; Responsibility

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CAUSAL ATTRIBUTION; FEMALE; GROUP PROCESS; HUMAN; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPONSIBILITY; TASK PERFORMANCE; TEAMWORK; THEORETICAL STUDY; THINKING;

ADULT; CAUSALITY; FEMALE; GROUP PROCESSES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 84867400538     PISSN: 00100277     EISSN: 18737838     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cognition.2012.07.014     Document Type: Article

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