Counterfactual Plausibility and Comparative Similarity.
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DOI: 10.1111/cogs.12451
Abstract: Counterfactual thinking involves imagining hypothetical alternatives to reality. Philosopher David Lewis (1973, 1979) argued that people estimate the subjective plausibility that a counterfactual event might have occurred by comparing an imagined possible world in which… read more here.
Keywords: similarity; counterfactual plausibility; plausibility counterfactual; comparative similarity ... See more keywords