Counterfactual thinking about controllable events

By R. McCloy, Ruth M. J. Byrne. 2000

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Subfields: Cognitive Neuroscience, General Decision Sciences, Safety Research

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Explanation in Human-AI Systems: A Literature Meta-Review, Synopsis of Key Ideas and Publications, and Bibliography for Explainable AI (2019, background): “…Halpern and Pearl (2005a,b), Hilton, McClure and Slugoski (2005); Hitchcock (2003); Hitchcock and Woodward (2003); Hoffman, et al., (2014); Khemlani and Johnson-Laird (2010); Kim, Khanna, and Koyejo (2016); Lipton, (1990); Mandel (2003a,b), McCloy and Byrne (2000); and Thompson and Byrne (2002).”
Explanation in Artificial Intelligence: Insights from the Social Sciences (2017, background): “Byrne [16] offers a similar argument in her computational model of explanation selection, noting that humans are model-based, not proof-based, so explanations must be relevant to a model.”
Causal superseding. (2015, background): “Second, studies show that moral judgments can influence people's intuitions about the relevance of counterfactuals (McCloy & Byrne, 2000; N'gbala and Branscombe, 1995).”
Counterfactual thoughts about experienced, observed, and narrated events (2011, background): “The results show that, unlike actors, readers mentally undo the choice to perform an action that was made by a hypothetical character, rather than her performance (see also Girotto, Legrenzi, & Rizzo, 1991 ; McCloy & Byrne, 2000 ).”
Judgment dissociation theory: an analysis of differences in causal, counterfactual, and covariational reasoning. (2003, methodology): “As previous research has shown, counterfactuals tend to focus on antecedents that are abnormal (Kahneman & Tversky, 1982a) and controllable (Girotto, Legrenzi, & Rizzo, 1991; Mandel & Lehman, 1996; McCloy & Byrne, 2000 ).”
Postdecisional Counterfactual Thinking by Actors and Readers (2007, background): “preference for modifications in which rules are respected over modifications in which rules are altered ( McCloy & Byrne, 2000 ).”
Counterfactual Thinking: From Logic to Morality (2017, background): “They do not focus on controllable events when they are morally appropriate, such as calling to visit elderly parents (e.g., McCloy & Byrne, 2000).”
Contrastive Knowledge Surveyed (2012, methodology): “Here we rely on the documented connection, confirmed in a number of experimental studies, between people’s moral judgments and their intuitions about which contrasts are relevant (Hitchcock and Knobe forthcoming; McCloy and Byrne 2000; N’gbala and Branscombe 1995).”
Counterfactual thinking: The temporal order effect (2004, background): “…2000; Gilovich & Medvec, 1995; N’gbala & Branscombe, 1995), controllable than uncontrollable events (Girotto, Legrenzi, & Rizzo, 1991; Mandel & Lehman, 1996; McCloy & Byrne, 2000), and the first event in a causal chain (Segura, Fernandez-Berrocal, & Byrne, 2002; Wells, Taylor, & Turtle, 1987).”
Reasoning counterfactually: making inferences about things that didn't happen. (2002, background): “…is pervasive in everyday life (e.g., Byrne & McEleney, 2000; Kahneman & Tversky, 1982), perhaps because it may be linked with causal thoughts (e.g., McCloy & Byrne, 2000, 2002; Roese & Olson, 1995) and because it has consequences for the experience of a range of emotions, such as regret, and…”