The good, the bad, and the timely: How temporal order and moral judgment influence causal selection

Causal selection is the cognitive process through which one or more elements in a complex causal structure are singled out as actual causes of a certain effect. In this paper, we report on an experiment in which we investigated the role of moral and temporal factors in causal selection. Our results...

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Main Authors: Kevin eReuter, Lara eKirfel, Raphael evan Riel, Luca eBarlassina
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2014-11-01
Series:Frontiers in Psychology
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Online Access:http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fpsyg.2014.01336/full