@inproceedings{8c15b08c04d549ab980261d7d78562a0,
title = "Causal Supersession",
abstract = "When agents violate norms, they are typically judged to be more of a cause of resulting outcomes. In this study, we suggest that norm violations also reduce the causality of other agents, a novel phenomenon we refer to as “causal supersession.” We propose and test a counterfactual reasoning model of this phenomenon in three experiments. Experiment 1 shows that causal judgments of one actor are reduced when another actor violates moral norms, even when the outcome in question is neutral. Experiment 2 shows that this causal supersession effect is dependent on a particular event structure, following a prediction of our counterfactual model. Experiment 3 demonstrates that causal supersession can occur with violation of non-moral norms.",
keywords = "Causal reasoning, Counterfactuals, Morality, Supersession",
author = "Kominsky, {Jonathan F.} and Jonathan Phillips and Tobias Gerstenberg and David Lagnado and Joshua Knobe",
note = "Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2014 Proceedings of the 36th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, CogSci 2014. All rights reserved.; 36th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, CogSci 2014 ; Conference date: 23-07-2014 Through 26-07-2014",
year = "2014",
language = "English",
series = "Proceedings of the 36th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, CogSci 2014",
publisher = "The Cognitive Science Society",
pages = "761--766",
booktitle = "Proceedings of the 36th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, CogSci 2014",
}