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    "pk": 25663,
    "title": "Mediators or Alternative Explanations:\nTransitivity in Human-Mediated Causal Chains",
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    "abstract": "We investigate how learning that an established type-level\ncausal relationship is implemented by human agency affects\npeople’s conceptualization of this relationship. In particular,\nwe ask under what conditions subjects continue to perceive the\noriginal root cause as appropriate explanation for the resulting\neffect, and under what conditions they perceive the mediating\nintentional action as alternative explanation instead. Using a\nnew experimental paradigm, we demonstrate that mechanisms\ninvolving intentional action lead to intuitions of causal intransitivity,\nbut only when these actions are norm-violating. Potential\ngeneralizations and implications for scientific theory construction\nare discussed.",
    "language": "eng",
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    "keywords": [
        {
            "word": "explanation; causal mechanisms; causal chains;\ntransitivity; mediators"
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    "section": "Papers",
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    "frozenauthors": [
        {
            "first_name": "Jonas",
            "middle_name": "",
            "last_name": "Nagel",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "University of G¨ottingen",
            "department": ""
        },
        {
            "first_name": "Simon",
            "middle_name": "",
            "last_name": "Stephan",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "University of G¨ottingen",
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        }
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    "date_submitted": null,
    "date_accepted": null,
    "date_published": "2015-01-01T18:00:00Z",
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