Postdecisional Counterfactual Thinking by Actors and Readers

By Vittorio Girotto, Donatella Ferrante, S. Pighin, Michel Gonzalez. 2007

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Subfields: Literature and Literary Theory, Social Psychology, Sociology and Political Science

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Citations in the corpus

• Counterfactuals in Explainable Artificial Intelligence (XAI): Evidence from Human Reasoning (2019, background): “People tended to create counterfactuals that changed the event within her control, “if only she had chosen the other envelope…” [Girotto et al., 2007].”
• Counterfactual thoughts about experienced, observed, and narrated events (2011, background): “Actors, however, modify their potentially blameworthy performance even when they are not responsible for choosing the difficult problem (Girotto et al., 2007).”