{"pk":29172,"title":"Inflated inflation and superseded supersession: testing counterfactual samplingaccounts of causal strength judgments","subtitle":null,"abstract":"Norm violations have been shown to influence causal judgments. Icard, Kominsky, and Knobe (2017) explained theinfluence of norms by appeal to a model of norm-weighted sampling of counterfactual possibilities. This model explainstwo well-known effects (among others): When two agents must act to bring about an outcome (i.e. both actions arenecessary), if an agent S violates a norm, they are judged more causal than when they do not violate a norm (abnormalinflation), and the other agent B is judged to be less causal than when S does not violate a norm (causal supersession).In the present study (N = 1008), we find empirical support for two untested further predictions of this sampling modelof causal strength judgments: Abnormal inflation of S is greater when B violates a norm (inflation increase), and causalsupersession of B is smaller when S violates a norm (supersession decrease).","language":"eng","license":{"name":"","short_name":"","text":null,"url":""},"keywords":[],"section":"Member Abstracts","is_remote":true,"remote_url":"https://escholarship.org/uc/item/3x7947b0","frozenauthors":[{"first_name":"Maureen","middle_name":"","last_name":"Gill","name_suffix":"","institution":"Princeton University","department":""},{"first_name":"Jonathan","middle_name":"","last_name":"Kominsky","name_suffix":"","institution":"Harvard University","department":""},{"first_name":"Joshua","middle_name":"","last_name":"Knobe","name_suffix":"","institution":"Yale University","department":""},{"first_name":"Thomas","middle_name":"","last_name":"Icard","name_suffix":"","institution":"Stanford University","department":""}],"date_submitted":null,"date_accepted":null,"date_published":"2019-01-01T18:00:00Z","render_galley":null,"galleys":[{"label":"PDF","type":"pdf","path":"https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/29172/galley/19043/download/"}]}