Temporal order and the perceived mutability of events: implications for blame assignment

By Dale T. Miller, S. Gunasegaram. 1990

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Counterfactuals in Explainable Artificial Intelligence (XAI): Evidence from Human Reasoning (2019, background): “People tended to imagine that the outcome could have been different if the second person had tossed heads, that is, they focused on the most recent event [Miller and Gunasegaram, 1990].”
Explainable AI: Beware of Inmates Running the Asylum Or: How I Learnt to Stop Worrying and Love the Social and Behavioural Sciences (2017, background): “For example, people tend to undo more proximal causes over more distal causes [Miller and Gunasegaram, 1990], abnormal events over normal events [Kahneman and Tversky, 1982], and events that are considered more ‘controllable’ [Girotto et al. , 1991].”
Explanation in Artificial Intelligence: Insights from the Social Sciences (2017, background): “Miller and Gunasegaram [131] show that the temporality of events is important, in particular that people undo more recent events than more distal events.”
Goal gradient in helping behavior (2013, background): “Received 8 June 2012 Revised 7 February 2013 Available online 15 July 2013”
Cognitive-Experiential Self-Theory of Personality (2003, methodology): “We studied the global-evaluation heuristic (reported in Epstein, 1994) by having participants Cognitive-experiential self-theory 33 respond to a vignette adapted from a study by Miller and Gunasegaram (1990).”
Judgment dissociation theory: an analysis of differences in causal, counterfactual, and covariational reasoning. (2003, methodology): “A basic finding from research using this problem (Byrne et al., 2000; Miller & Gunasegaram, 1990; Spellman, 1997) is that participants tend to predict that Player 1 will ascribe more blame to Player 2 than vice versa.”
The Dissatisfaction of Having Your First Offer Accepted: The Role of Counterfactual Thinking in Negotiations (2002, background): “Counterfactual thinking can increase blame ( Miller & Gunasegaram, 1990 ), increase suspiciousness (Miller, Turnbull, & McFarland, 1989), and lead to intense and persistent negative affect (Davis, Lehman, Wortman, Silver, & Thompson, 1995).”