On Praise, Side Effects, and Folk Ascriptions of Intentionality.

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Individual differences, judgment biases, and theory-of-mind: Deconstructing the intentional action side effect asymmetry (2009, background): “Alternatively, Nadelhoffer (2004) and Malle and Nelson (2003) argue that the asymmetry primarily results from an affective bias.”
Norms inform mental state ascriptions: A rational explanation for the side-effect effect. (2010, background): “…conversational pragmatics (Adams & Steadman, 2004), the desire to blame an agent for a negative outcome (Malle & Nelson, 2003; Mele, 2001), or an emotional reaction (Nadelhoffer, 2004) could lead participants to (mistakenly) describe the side effect as having been brought about intentionally.”
Telling More Than We Can Know About Intentional Action (2011, background): “© 2011 Blackwell Publishing Ltd influence judgments of intentionality (Doris et al., 2007; Knobe, 2003, 2005, 2006; Mele, 2006; Nadelhoffer, 2004a and b, 2006; Alicke, 2008; Wright and Bengson, 2009; Holton, 2010).”