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Johnson, Samuel G. B.; Ahn, Woo-kyoung – Cognitive Science, 2015
Knowledge of mechanisms is critical for causal reasoning. We contrasted two possible organizations of causal knowledge--an interconnected causal "network," where events are causally connected without any boundaries delineating discrete mechanisms; or a set of disparate mechanisms--causal "islands"--such that events in different…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Decision Making, Attribution Theory, Networks
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Lagnado, David A.; Gerstenberg, Tobias; Zultan, Ro'i – Cognitive Science, 2013
How do people attribute responsibility in situations where the contributions of multiple agents combine to produce a joint outcome? The prevalence of over-determination in such cases makes this a difficult problem for counterfactual theories of causal responsibility. In this article, we explore a general framework for assigning responsibility in…
Descriptors: Attribution Theory, Causal Models, Responsibility, Cognitive Psychology
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Verschoor, Stephan; Biro, Szilvia – Cognitive Science, 2012
It has been shown that, when observing an action, infants can rely on either outcome selection information (i.e., actions that express a choice between potential outcomes) or means selection information (i.e., actions that are causally efficient toward the outcome) in their goal attribution. However, no research has investigated the relationship…
Descriptors: Infants, Goal Orientation, Observation, Infant Behavior