Good Decisions, Good Causes: Optimality as a Constraint on Attribution of Causal Responsibility

Cooperative Minds: Social Interaction and Group Dynamics - Proceedings of the 35th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, CogSci 2013

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 2662-2667

  Johnson, Samuel G B ^a   Rips, Lance J ^b  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Causal attribution; decision making; lay decision theory; responsibility; theory of mind

Indexed keywords

CAUSAL ATTRIBUTIONS; DECISIONS MAKINGS; LAY DECISION THEORY; OPTIMALITY; RESPONSIBILITY; THEORY OF MINDS;

EID: 84924548254     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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