Judgments of cause and blame: the effects of intentionality and foreseeability.

By David A. Lagnado, S. Channon. 2008

342 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Cognitive Neuroscience, Social Psychology, Sociology and Political Science

How researchers see this paper

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In Cognitive Neuroscience

1. Tim Miller
2. Tobias Gerstenberg
3. Bertram F. Malle
4. Manos Tsakiris
5. David A. Lagnado
6. Ro’i Zultan
7. Denis J. Hilton
8. Patrick Haggard

In Social Psychology

1. Tim Miller
2. Tania Lombrozo
3. Tobias Gerstenberg
4. Bertram F. Malle
5. Denis J. Hilton
6. Andrew E. Monroe
7. Ro’i Zultan
8. Steve Guglielmo

In Sociology and Political Science

1. Tim Miller
2. James D. Unnever
3. F. Cullen
4. Tobias Gerstenberg
5. Ro’i Zultan
6. Tania Lombrozo
7. Bertram F. Malle
8. David A. Lagnado

Citations in the corpus

• Explanation in Artificial Intelligence: Insights from the Social Sciences (2017, background): “[74, 92]), I focus on the model of Chockler and Halpern [29] because, as far I am aware aware, experimental evaluation of the model shows it to be stronger than existing models [48], and because it is a formal model that is more readily adopted in artificial intelligence.”
• Selecting explanations from causal chains: Do statistical principles explain preferences for voluntary causes? (2009, background): “Lagnado and Channon (2008) also studied scenarios that resemble opportunity chains in that a first action (administering poison) enabled a second but unforeseen event (a traffic jam) to bring about an outcome (the death of a victim while he was being transported to hospital) and likewise found no ev”
• Spreading the blame: The allocation of responsibility amongst multiple agents. (2010, background): “Finally, empirical work has shown that individual-level attributions are strongly influenced by mentalistic variables such as intention and foresight (Alicke, 2000; Heider, 1958; Hilton et al., 2005; Lagnado & Channon, 2008).”
• Causal Responsibility and Counterfactuals (2013, background): “Empirical evidence shows that people’s blame judgments are sensitive to the epistemic states of the agents (Lagnado & Channon, 2008).”
• The role of prescriptive norms and knowledge in children's and adults' causal selection. (2016, background): “Blame assignment and the resulting causal exaggeration of an agent’s causal role should be strongest if the agent brought about the outcome of her action knowingly and intentionally (Alicke et al., 2011; Lagnado & Channon, 2008).”
• At the Heart of Morality Lies Folk Psychology (2009, methodology): “This contribution goes beyond the well-documented fact that intentional actions are blamed more than (comparable) unintentional behaviors or events3 (e.g., Lagnado and Channon, 2008; Ohtsubo, 2007; Shultz and Wells, 1985).”
• The Pragmatic American: Attributions of Crime and the Hydraulic Relation Hypothesis (2010, background): “1998; Fletcher et al., 1990; Lagnado & Channon, 2008; Reeder & Brewer, 1979; Robins et al., 2004; Tam, Au, & Leung, 2008).”
• Causal-explanatory pluralism: How intentions, functions, and mechanisms influence causal ascriptions. (2010, background): “…has a special status: causal ratings are typically higher for voluntary and deliberate human actions relative to accidental human actions or to the contributions of physical processes such as wind (e.g. Fincham & Jaspars, 1980; Lagnado & Channon, 2008; Malle, 2004; McClure, Hilton, & Sutton, 2007).”
• The Experience of Agency (2009, background): “People are often held more responsible for direct and immediate effects of an actions than for effects that are only distantly, unspecifically, and unpredictably related to it (Lagnado & Channon, 2008).”
• Finding fault: Causality and counterfactuals in group attributions (2012, positive): “However, factors such as intentionality and foreseeability have been shown to play an important role in responsibility attributions (Gerstenberg, Lagnado, & Kareev, 2010; Gerstenberg & Lagnado, 2012; Lagnado & Channon, 2008; McClure, Hilton, & Sutton, 2007; Schächtele, Gerstenberg, & Lagnado, 2010).”
• Perceived Injustice and Adverse Recovery Outcomes (2014, neutral): “Inj. and Law Darley, 2008; Lagnado & Channon, 2008).”
• Consequences of attributing discrimination to implicit vs. explicit bias (2019, background): “That is, when people think that actors should have been able to foresee the harmful consequences of even their unintended actions, they hold those actors more accountable (Lagnado & Channon, 2008; Laurent, Nuñez, & Schweitzer, 2016; Monroe & Malle, 2019).”