Abstract (may include machine translation)
Existing research has shown that norm violations influence causal judg- ments, and a number of different models have been developed to explain these effects. One such model, the necessity/sufficiency model, predicts an interac- tion pattern in people's judgments. Specifically, it predicts that when people are judging the degree to which a particular factor is a cause, there should be an interaction between (a) the degree to which that factor violates a norm and (b) the degree to which another factor in the situation violates norms. A study of moral norms (N = 1000) and norms of proper functioning (N = 3000) revealed robust evidence for the predicted interaction effect. The implications of these patterns for existing theories of causal judgments is discussed.
Original language | English |
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Article number | 105183 |
Journal | Cognition |
Volume | 228 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - Nov 2022 |
Externally published | Yes |
Keywords
- Causal reasoning
- Causal selection
- Computational models
- Counterfactuals
- Morality