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Calculated Comparisons: Manufacturing Societal Causal Judgments by Implying Different Counterfactual Outcomes
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Jamie Amemiya; Gail D. Heyman; Caren M. Walker – Cognitive Science, 2024
How do people come to opposite causal judgments about societal problems, such as whether a public health policy reduced COVID-19 cases? The current research tests an understudied cognitive mechanism in which people may agree about what "actually" happened (e.g., that a public health policy was implemented and COVID-19 cases declined),…
Descriptors: Causal Models, Evaluative Thinking, Logical Thinking, Social Problems