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COGNITION
Volume 137, Issue -, Pages 196-209Publisher
ELSEVIER
DOI: 10.1016/j.cognition.2015.01.013
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Causal reasoning; Counterfactuals; Morality; Superseding
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- Center for Brains, Minds and Machines (CBMM) - NSF STC [CCF-1231216]
- ESRC [RES-062330004]
- Economic and Social Research Council [ES/H041796/1] Funding Source: researchfish
- ESRC [ES/H041796/1] Funding Source: UKRI
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When agents violate norms, they are typically judged to be more of a cause of resulting outcomes. In this paper, we suggest that norm violations also affect the causality attributed to other agents, a phenomenon we refer to as causal superseding. We propose and test a counterfactual reasoning model of this phenomenon in four experiments. Experiments 1 and 2 provide an initial demonstration of the causal superseding effect and distinguish it from previously studied effects. Experiment 3 shows that this causal superseding effect is dependent on a particular event structure, following a prediction of our counterfactual model. Experiment 4 demonstrates that causal superseding can occur with violations of non-moral norms. We propose a model of the superseding effect based on the idea of counterfactual sufficiency. (c) 2015 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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