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Causal conditionals and counterfactuals

Article ID Journal Published Year Pages File Type
10453824 Acta Psychologica 2012 13 Pages PDF
Abstract
► Causal counterfactuals understood by envisaging different sorts of possibilities. ► Causal counterfactuals are paraphrased differently compared to causal conditionals. ► People make different inferences from counterfactuals in the context of a story.
Keywords
2300 human experimental psychology2340 cognitive processesConditional reasoningEnablersCausalityCounterfactualsMental models
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Causal conditionals and counterfactuals
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Caren A. Frosch, Ruth M.J. Byrne,
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