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Looking back to plan ahead: Causal judgments as a sampling approximation for action effectiveness

2025-04-24

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<p>Throughout human thought and discourse, we make judgments of how much certain particular events caused others: For instance, we judge that a product sold because of its viral ad campaign more than because of its celebrity endorsement, or vice versa. Yet, the precise functional role of such judgments remains elusive. Why do people make and care about these judgments so much, and why do those judgments follow the...

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a0963b92-6500-5384-8eda-310f09e27f80
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10.31234/osf.io/nq53z_v2
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