Knowledge-Based Causal Attribution: The Abnormal Conditions Focus Model

A model grounded in recent ordinary language philosophy is proposed which postulates that subjects employ counterfactual and contrastive criteria of causal ascription, as unified in the notion of an abnormal condition. Two experiments satisfy the three criteria specified for an adequate test of the...

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Published inPsychological Review Vol. 93; no. 1; p. 75
Main Authors Hilton, Denis J, Slugoski, Ben R
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published 1986
Subjects
Adults
Analysis of Variance
Attribution Theory
Discourse Analysis
Language Processing
Logic
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Summary:A model grounded in recent ordinary language philosophy is proposed which postulates that subjects employ counterfactual and contrastive criteria of causal ascription, as unified in the notion of an abnormal condition. Two experiments satisfy the three criteria specified for an adequate test of the abnormal conditions focus model. (Author/LMO)