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    "title": "Functional Rule Inference from Causal Selection Explanations",
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    "abstract": "Building on counterfactual theories of causal-selection, according to which humans intuitively evaluate the causal responsibility of events, we developed an experimental paradigm to examine the effect of causal-selection explanations on abductive causal inference. In our experiment, participants attempted to infer the rule responsible for winning outcomes of random draws from urns with varying sampling probabilities.\nParticipants who were provided with causal-selection judgments as explanations for the outcomes made significantly closer inferences to the rule than those relying on observations alone, or on other explanations of causal relevance.\nWe mirror these empirical results with a computational model of inference from explanation leveraging the theories of causal selection.",
    "language": "eng",
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    "keywords": [
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            "word": "Linguistics; Psychology; Case-based reasoning; Causal reasoning; Language and thought; Pragmatics; Reasoning; Semantics; Bayesian modeling; Computer-based experiment"
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    "section": "Papers with Oral Presentation",
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            "first_name": "Nicolas",
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            "last_name": "Navarre",
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            "institution": "University of Edinburgh",
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            "first_name": "Can",
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            "last_name": "Konuk",
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            "institution": "Institut Jean Nicod",
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            "last_name": "Mascarenhas",
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            "institution": "Ecole Normale Supérieure",
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    "date_published": "2024-01-01T18:00:00Z",
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