Goal-based Explanations of Actions and Outcomes

By John McClure. 2002

45 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Cognitive Neuroscience, General Decision Sciences, Sociology and Political Science

How researchers see this paper

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In Cognitive Neuroscience

1. Tim Miller
2. Bertram F. Malle
3. Henk Aarts
4. Joshua Knobe
5. G. Dik
6. Robbie M. Sutton
7. A. Boonzaier
8. Arch G. Woodside

In General Decision Sciences

1. Henk Aarts
2. G. Dik
3. Tim Miller
4. Arch G. Woodside
5. G. Reeder
6. Bertram F. Malle
7. A. Boonzaier
8. Robbie M. Sutton

In Sociology and Political Science

1. Tim Miller
2. Bertram F. Malle
3. G. Dik
4. Henk Aarts
5. Joshua Knobe
6. Robbie M. Sutton
7. A. Boonzaier
8. G. Reeder

Citations in the corpus

• Explanation in Human-AI Systems: A Literature Meta-Review, Synopsis of Key Ideas and Publications, and Bibliography for Explainable AI (2019, neutral): “brozo, 2006, 2009a, 2011, 2016; Lombrozo and Carey, 2006; Lombrozo and Gwynne, 2014a; Lombrozo, Sloman, Strevens, Trout, and Skolnick Weisberg, 2008; Malle, 1999,2004, 2011; Manicas and Secord, 1983; McClure, 2002; McClure and Hilton, 1997, 1998; McClure, Sutton, and Hilton, 2003; Malle, 1999, 2004,”
• Explanation in Artificial Intelligence: Insights from the Social Sciences (2017, background): “Subsequent research confirms this distinction [35, 112, 122, 10, 84, 108].”
• Overcoming the illusion of will and self‐fabrication: Going beyond naïve subjective personal introspection to an unconscious/conscious theory of behavior explanation (2006, background): “Section three explicates the folk-conceptual theory of behavior explanation (see Hilton 1990; McClure 2002; Malle, 1999; Malle, 2004a, 2004b; Malle & Knobe 1997) and emphasizes this theory s relevancy to SPI research and theory.”
• Actor-observer asymmetries in explanations of behavior: new answers to an old question. (2007, background): “To look for the agent’s desire or goal may be a fundamental feature of the human social– cognitive system (Gergely & Csibra, 2003; Meltzoff, 1995), and an observer who is asked to explain a behavior may readily represent or search for the action’s goal (McClure, 2002).”
• Behavioral cues to others’ motivation and goal pursuits: The perception of effort facilitates goal inference and contagion (2007, methodology): “Although goal attribution is traditionally treated as a deliberative and reXective process (e.g., McClure, 2002), there is research to suggest that people spontaneously infer the goals they perceive in others’ behavior (Aarts et al., in press).”
• Distinguishing the effects of beliefs and preconditions: The folk psychology of goals and actions (2005, background): “…than explanations, but they are consistent with research showing that explanations of common actions tend to cite goals more than preconditions (e.g. Johnson et al., 1994; Malle, 1999; Malle & Knobe, 1997; Malle et al., 2000; McClure, 2002; McClure & Hilton, 1997, 1998; Sutton & McClure, 2001).”
• Mindreading: Judgments About Intentionality and Motives in Dispositional Inference (2009, background): “Intentional acts tend to be explained in terms of the target person's mental states, reasons, goals, or motives for behaving a particular way ( Dennett, 1996 ; Malle, 1999 , 2004 ; McClure, 2002 ; Reeder & Trafimow, 2005 ).”