Mature counterfactual reasoning in 4- and 5-year-olds
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DOI: 10.1016/j.cognition.2018.10.027
Abstract: Counterfactual reasoning is a hallmark of the human imagination. Recently, researchers have argued that children do not display genuine counterfactual reasoning until they can reason about events that are overdetermined and consider the removal of… read more here.
Keywords: counterfactual reasoning; reasoning year; year; year olds ... See more keywords
Extended difficulties with counterfactuals persist in reasoning with false beliefs: Evidence for teleology-in-perspective.
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DOI: 10.1016/j.jecp.2020.105058
Abstract: Increasing evidence suggests that counterfactual reasoning is involved in false belief reasoning. Because existing work is correlational, we developed a manipulation that revealed a signature of counterfactual reasoning in participants' answers to false belief questions.… read more here.
Keywords: false belief; difficulties counterfactuals; teleology; counterfactual reasoning ... See more keywords
Children's Counterfactual Reasoning About Causally Overdetermined Events.
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DOI: 10.1111/cdev.12913
Abstract: In two experiments, one hundred and sixty-two 6- to 8-year-olds were asked to reason counterfactually about events with different causal structures. All events involved overdetermined outcomes in which two different causal events led to the… read more here.
Keywords: counterfactual reasoning; causally overdetermined; children counterfactual; reasoning causally ... See more keywords
Being nice by choice: The effect of counterfactual reasoning on children's social evaluations.
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DOI: 10.1111/desc.13394
Abstract: The ability to engage in counterfactual thinking (reason about what else could have happened) is critical to learning, agency, and social evaluation. However, not much is known about how individual differences in counterfactual reasoning may… read more here.
Keywords: children social; choice; character; social evaluations ... See more keywords
Improving counterfactual reasoning with kernelised dynamic mixing models
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DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0205839
Abstract: Simulation-based approaches to disease progression allow us to make counterfactual predictions about the effects of an untried series of treatment choices. However, building accurate simulators of disease progression is challenging, limiting the utility of these… read more here.
Keywords: counterfactual reasoning; reasoning kernelised; kernelised dynamic; dynamic mixing ... See more keywords