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