A counterfactual simulation model of causal judgments for physical events.

How do people make causal judgments about physical events? We introduce the counterfactual simulation model (CSM) which predicts causal judgments in physical settings by comparing what actually happened with what would have happened in relevant counterfactual situations. The CSM postulates different...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Gerstenberg, Tobias, Goodman, Noah D, Lagnado, David A, Tenenbaum, Joshua B
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: American Psychological Association (APA) 2021
Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/138370