Head hits cause brain damage-but not always. Should we ban sport to protect athletes?
Exposure to electromagnetic fields is strongly associated with cancer development-does that …

Recent work in psychology and experimental philosophy has shown that judgments of
actual causation are often influenced by consideration of defaults, typicality, and normality. A …

Existing research suggests that people's judgments of actual causation can be influenced by
the degree to which they regard certain events as normal. We develop an explanation for …

How do people make causal judgments about physical events? We introduce the
counterfactual simulation model (CSM) which predicts causal judgments in physical settings …

A novel proposal that the unified nature of our cognition can be partially explained by a
cognitive architecture based on graphical models. Our ordinary, everyday thinking requires …

Past work has demonstrated that people's moral judgments can influence their judgments in
a number of domains that might seem to involve straightforward matters of fact, including …

When several causes contributed to an outcome, people often single out one as “the” cause.
What explains this selection? Previous work has argued that people select abnormal events …

How do people hold others responsible for the consequences of their actions? We propose
a computational model that attributes responsibility as a function of what the observed action …

Causal judgments are widely known to be sensitive to violations of both prescriptive norms
(eg, immoral events) and statistical norms (eg, improbable events). There is ongoing …

Recent experimental findings suggest that prescriptive norms influence causal inferences.
The cognitive mechanism underlying this finding is still under debate. We compare three …