Poking Counterfactual Holes in Covering Laws: Cognitive Styles and Historical Reasoning

By Philip Tetlock, R. Lebow. American Political Science Review, 2001

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Subfields: History and Philosophy of Science, Safety Research, Sociology and Political Science

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In History and Philosophy of Science

1. Ruth M. J. Byrne

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Citations in the corpus

• An Effectual Approach to International Entrepreneurship: Overlaps, Challenges, and Provocative Possibilities (2014, unknown): “But counterfactual analysis can also be used with quantitative and historical data (Tetlock & Lebow, 2001) as well as experimental data (Smith, 2003).”
• Spontaneous counterfactual thoughts and causal explanations (2006, background): “People sometimes engage in counterfactual thinking in order to determine the causes of outcomes; for example, when they consider historical events (eg, Tetlock & Lebow, 2001 ).”