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    "pk": 27436,
    "title": "Counterfactual Conditionals and Normative Rules",
    "subtitle": null,
    "abstract": "Counterfactual thinking is the consideration of how things\ncould have turned out differently, usually taking the form of\ncounterfactual conditionals. This experiment examined the\npsychological mechanisms that transform counterfactuals into\ndeontic guidance rules for the future. We examined how\ncounterfactual thinking translates into deontic guidance rules\nby asking participants to infer these deontic conclusions from\nthe counterfactual premises. Participants were presented with\na vignette and a counterfactual conditional, and assigned to\neither a control condition or a suppression condition in which\nthey were additionally presented with conflicting normative\nrules. The presence of conflicting norms reduced the\nlikelihood of positive deontic conclusions being endorsed and\nincreased the likelihood of negative deontic conclusions being\nendorsed. Future intentionality and regret intensity ratings\nwere reduced in the suppression condition. The same\nconditions that affect normative inference also affect regret\nand future planning, suggesting similar cognitive mechanisms\nunderlie these processes.",
    "language": "eng",
    "license": {
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        "short_name": "",
        "text": null,
        "url": ""
    },
    "keywords": [
        {
            "word": "conflicting norms; counterfactual thinking;\ndeontic introduction; new paradigm; regret"
        }
    ],
    "section": "Posters: Papers",
    "is_remote": true,
    "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/5js865dj",
    "frozenauthors": [
        {
            "first_name": "Meredith",
            "middle_name": "R.",
            "last_name": "Wilkinson",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "De Montfort University",
            "department": ""
        },
        {
            "first_name": "Shira",
            "middle_name": "",
            "last_name": "Elqayam",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "De Montfort University",
            "department": ""
        },
        {
            "first_name": "Valerie",
            "middle_name": "",
            "last_name": "Thompson",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "University of Saskatchewan",
            "department": ""
        },
        {
            "first_name": "David",
            "middle_name": "E.",
            "last_name": "Over",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "Durham University",
            "department": ""
        }
    ],
    "date_submitted": null,
    "date_accepted": null,
    "date_published": "2017-01-01T18:00:00Z",
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