Causal responsibility and counterfactuals

Cognitive Science

Volumn 37, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 1036-1073

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

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

Author keywords

Attribution; Causality; Counterfactuals; Criticality; Pivotality; Responsibility; Shared responsibility

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATTRIBUTION; COUNTERFACTUALS; CRITICALITY; DECISION MAKING; EPIDEMIOLOGY; HUMAN; PERCEPTION; PIVOTALITY; PSYCHOLOGICAL MODEL; RESPONSIBILITY; SHARED RESPONSIBILITY; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

ATTRIBUTION; CAUSALITY; COUNTERFACTUALS; CRITICALITY; PIVOTALITY; RESPONSIBILITY; SHARED RESPONSIBILITY;

CAUSALITY; HUMANS; JUDGMENT; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 84881554035     PISSN: 03640213     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/cogs.12054     Document Type: Article

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