@inproceedings{89f2d424c29f422e9acf8b8b9d1191cd,
title = "Stable Causal Relationships are Better Causal Relationships",
abstract = "We report two experiments investigating whether people's judgments about causal relationships are sensitive to the robustness or stability of such relationships across a wide range of background circumstances. We demonstrate that people prefer stable causal relationships even when overall causal strength is held constant, and we show that this effect is unlikely to be driven by a causal generalization's actual scope of application. This documents a previously unacknowledged factor that shapes people's causal reasoning.",
keywords = "background conditions, causality, explanation, moderating variables, stability",
author = "Nadya Vasilyeva and Thomas Blanchard and Tania Lombrozo",
note = "Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2016 Proceedings of the 38th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, CogSci 2016. All rights reserved.; 38th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society: Recognizing and Representing Events, CogSci 2016 ; Conference date: 10-08-2016 Through 13-08-2016",
year = "2016",
language = "English (US)",
series = "Proceedings of the 38th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, CogSci 2016",
publisher = "The Cognitive Science Society",
pages = "2663--2668",
editor = "Anna Papafragou and Daniel Grodner and Daniel Mirman and Trueswell, {John C.}",
booktitle = "Proceedings of the 38th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, CogSci 2016",
}