Acting knowingly: effects of the agent's awareness of an opportunity on causal attributions

摘要: ABSTRACTAccording to difference-based (e.g. counterfactual/covariational) models of causal judgement, the epistemic state agent should not affect judgements cause. Four experiments examined opportunity chains in which a physical event (distal cause) enabled subsequent proximal cause produce an outcome. All four showed that when was human action, it judged as more if aware his than he or event. The first two these preferences could be explained terms differences perceived conditional probability (whether from observer's agent's point view), social controllability perceptions sequence forming single unit. third experiment awareness affected deliberateness with action brought outcome about but its voluntariness. fourth ...