Counterfactual and semi-factual thoughts in moral judgements about failed attempts to harm

By Mary Parkinson, Ruth M. J. Byrne. 2017

18 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Cognitive Neuroscience, Social Psychology

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In Cognitive Neuroscience

1. Shane Timmons
2. Ruth M. J. Byrne
3. David R. Mandel

In Social Psychology

1. Shane Timmons
2. Ruth M. J. Byrne

Citations in the corpus

• Moral hindsight for good actions and the effects of imagined alternatives to reality. (2018, background): “Both discoveries are consistent with the idea that moral judgments implicate inferential processes (e.g., Bonnefon & Trémolière, 2017; see also Parkinson & Byrne, 2017b; Parkinson & Byrne, 2018).”
• Counterfactual Thinking: From Logic to Morality (2017, background): “…when they hear a counterfactual in which changes to the victim’s behavior did not change the outcome, whereas they are lower when they hear a counterfactual in which changes to the victim’s behavior changed the outcome (e.g., Branscombe, Owen, Garstka, & Coleman, 1996; Parkinson & Byrne, 2017).”