Conceptual structure and social functions of behavior explanations: beyond person--situation attributions.

By Bertram F. Malle, Joshua Knobe, Matthew J. O'Laughlin, G. Pearce, Sarah E Nelson. 2000

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Subfields: Applied Psychology, Sociology and Political Science

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Explanation in Artificial Intelligence: Insights from the Social Sciences (2017, background): “y infer that this is a belief of the speaker. For example, \The key is in the house" indicates a belief on the behalf of the speaker and inferred to mean \I believe the key is in the house" [116]5. However, for third-person perspective, this is not the case. The unmarked version of explana”
When Mental States Matter, When They Don't, and What That Means for Morality (2013, background): “We suggest that we may hold many beliefs without representing those beliefs qua beliefs (Malle et al., 2000).”
How People Explain Action (and Autonomous Intelligent Systems Should Too) (2017, background): “For further discussion of these modes of explanation, see (Malle 2011; Malle et al. 2000; McClure and Hilton 1998); here we focus on the two contrasting modes of reason explanations for intentions/intentional actions and cause explanations for unintentional events (see Figure 1).”
Social cognition and the brain: A meta‐analysis (2009, background): “, 1990], and in social research on the processing stages from goal identification to trait inference [Malle and Knobe, 1997; Malle et al., 2000; Reeder, et al., 2002, 2004].”
Suspending judgment to create value: Suspicion and trust in negotiation (2010, methodology): “Following the attributions literature (e.g., Malle et al., 2000), I treated categories of explanations as multiple measures and conducted multivariate analyses of variance (MANOVAs).”
At the Heart of Morality Lies Folk Psychology (2009, methodology): “intentionality (e.g., Adams, 1986; Malle & Knobe, 1997; Searle, 1983), which assume that if an”
How people explain actions performed by groups and individuals. (2002, methodology): “This method of studying explanations enjoys increasing acceptance among researchers (e.g., Fletcher, 1983; HoltzworthMunroe & Jacobson, 1988; Islam & Hewstone, 1993; Lewis, 1995; Malle et al., 2000;McGill, 1989), and it has many advantages over the causal rating method: It allows participants to gen”
Time to Give Up the Dogmas of Attribution (2011, background): “…under the label causal history of reason (CHR) explanations and include such forces as the agent’s unconscious motives, personality, upbringing, culture, and the immediate context (Malle, 1999; Malle et al., 2000; O’Laughlin & Malle, 2002; see also Hirschberg, 1978; Locke & Pennington, 1982).”
Distinguishing the effects of beliefs and preconditions: The folk psychology of goals and actions (2005, background): “Malle (1999) later extended this claim about skills to other enabling factors, such as money and time (Malle, 2001, 2003; Malle & Knobe, 2001; Malle et al., 2000).”
Attribution theories: How people make sense of behavior. (2011, background): “…try to accomplish with their explanations, such as lessen another person's confusion, managing cially belief reasons, when trying to rational (Malle et al., 2000); they explain people's behavior more like they explain their own behavior (both in terms of reasons CHRs and belief reasons vs.…”
When People Explain Difficult Actions, is the Causal Question How or Why? (2001, background): “This finding supports McClure and Hilton’s (1998) finding that the framing of causal questions influences the explanation given for actions and extends this finding to causal questions that have wider colloquial usage (see also Malle et al., 2000).”
Intentional action in folk psychology: An experimental investigation (2003, background): “It also influences their explanations of other people’s behaviors (Malle et al., 2000) and their decisions about which behaviors to explain (Malle & Knobe, 1997b).”