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Who Caused It? Different Effects of Statistical and Prescriptive Abnormality on Causal Selection in Chains

Determining proximate causation is critical for legal liability decisions, but how judges choose proximate causes is controversial. Recent research suggests that the perceived abnormality of causal factors determines causal selection patterns for …

Murderer at the door! To lie or to mislead?

Is lying morally worse than misleading? The traditional view in philosophy is that it is, although convincing arguments have also been offered for the view that lying and misleading are morally equal (Saul, 2012a). I here report the results of …

Is lying morally different from misleading? An empirical investigation

Consider the following case: Dennis is going to Paul’s party tonight. He has a long day of work ahead of him before that, but he is very excited and can’t wait to get there. Dennis’s annoying friend Rebecca comes up to him and starts talking about …

Entwicklungen und Probleme der Moralpsychologie zu Beginn des 21. Jahrhunderts

Shared first authorship See publisher’s website.

Asking questions to provide a causal explanation – Do people search for the information required by cognitive psychological theories?

In this paper, we give a brief overview of current, cognitive-psychological theories, which provide an account for how people explain facts: causal model theories (the predominant type of dependence theory) and mechanistic theories. These theories …