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    "pk": 25730,
    "title": "Highlighting the Causal Meaning of Causal Test Questions\nin Contexts of Norm Violations",
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    "abstract": "Experiments have shown that prescriptive norms often influence\ncausal inferences. The reason for this effect is still not clear. One\nproblem of the studies is that the term ‘cause’ in the test questions\nis ambiguous and can refer to both the causal mechanism and the\nagent’s accountability. Possibly subjects interpreted the causal test\nquestion as a request to assess accountability rather than causality.\nScenarios that put more stress on the causal mechanism should\ntherefore yield no norm effect. Consequently, Experiment 1\ndemonstrates that norms no longer influence causal judgments\nwhen the causal information is presented in a trial-by-trial learning\ntask. Furthermore, Experiment 2 shows that norm effects are only\nobtained when the test question asks about a (potentially\naccountable) person but not when asked about a component of the\ncausal mechanism. Both findings demonstrate that norms cease to\ninfluence causal judgments when the task settings highlight causal\nrelations",
    "language": "eng",
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    "keywords": [
        {
            "word": "causal reasoning; moral judgment; causal selection;\nnorms"
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    "section": "Papers",
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    "frozenauthors": [
        {
            "first_name": "Jana",
            "middle_name": "",
            "last_name": "Samland",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "University of Göttingen",
            "department": ""
        },
        {
            "first_name": "Michael",
            "middle_name": "R",
            "last_name": "Waldmann",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "University of Göttingen",
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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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