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Counterfactual and Prefactual Conditionals
(Canadian Journal of Experimental Psychology, 2004)
We consider reasoning about prefactual possibilities
in the future, for example, “if I were to win the lottery
next year I would buy a yacht” and counterfactual possibilities,
for example, “if I had won the lottery last ...
Indicative and Counterfactual 'only if' conditionals'.
(Elsevier, 2009-11)
We report three experiments to test the possibilities reasoners think about when they understand a con-ditional of the form ‘A only if B’ compared to ‘if A then B’. The experiments examine conditionals in the indicative ...
Counterfactual promises and threats
(Cognitive Science Society, 2004)
We examine counterfactual conditionals about promises, such as ‘if you had tidied your room then I would have given you
ice-cream’ and threats such as ‘if you had hit your sister then I would have grounded you’. Reasoners ...
Thinking counterfactually – how controllability affects the ‘undoing’ of causes and enablers.
(Cognitive Science Society, 2008)
Abstract
Previous research on counterfactual thoughts about prevention
suggests that people tend to focus on enabling rather than
causing agents. However, research has also demonstrated that
people have a preference ...