Human commonsense understanding of the physical and social world is organized around
intuitive theories. These theories support making causal and moral judgments. When …

The past few decades have seen an explosion of research on causal reasoning in
philosophy, computer science, and statistics, as well as descriptive work in psychology. In …

Everything that happens has a multitude of causes, but people make causal judgments
effortlessly. How do people select one particular cause (eg, the lightning bolt that set the …

How do people make causal judgements? In this paper, I show that counterfactual
simulations are necessary for explaining causal judgements about events, and that …

How do people make causal judgments about physical events? We introduce the
counterfactual simulation model (CSM) which predicts causal judgments in physical settings …

People tend to judge more recent events, relative to earlier ones, as the cause of some
particular outcome. For instance, people are more inclined to judge that the last basket …

How do people make causal judgments and assign responsibility? In this review article, I
argue that counterfactual simulations are key. To simulate counterfactuals, we need three …

When several causes contributed to an outcome, people often single out one as “the” cause.
What explains this selection? Previous work has argued that people select abnormal events …

Omission bias is people's tendency to evaluate harm done through omission as less morally
wrong and less blameworthy than commission when there is harm. However, findings are …

How do people hold others responsible? Responsibility judgments are affected not only by
what actually happened, but also by what could have happened if things had turned out …