Papers Published

1. Henne, P; O'Neill, K; Bello, P; Khemlani, S; De Brigard, F, Norms Affect Prospective Causal Judgments., Cognitive science, vol. 45 no. 1 (January, 2021), pp. e12931 [doi].
   (last updated on 2024/04/25)

   Abstract:
   People more frequently select norm-violating factors, relative to norm-conforming ones, as the cause of some outcome. Until recently, this abnormal-selection effect has been studied using retrospective vignette-based paradigms. We use a novel set of video stimuli to investigate this effect for prospective causal judgments-that is, judgments about the cause of some future outcome. Four experiments show that people more frequently select norm-violating factors, relative to norm-conforming ones, as the cause of some future outcome. We show that the abnormal-selection effects are not primarily explained by the perception of agency (Experiment 4). We discuss these results in relation to recent efforts to model causal judgment.