Blame the Skilled

Expanding the Space of Cognitive Science - Proceedings of the 33rd Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, CogSci 2011

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 720-725

  Gerstenberg, Tobias ^a   Ejova, Anastasia ^b   Lagnado, David A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE   (Australia)

Author keywords

control; counterfactual thinking; responsibility attribution; skill

Indexed keywords

COUNTERFACTUAL THINKING; COUNTERFACTUALS; CREDIT RATINGS; PERFORMANCE; POOR PERFORMANCE; RESPONSIBILITY ATTRIBUTION; SKILL;

EID: 84906329506     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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