Counterfactual thinking and recency effects in causal judgment
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, rather than the first, caused the team to win the basketball game. This recency effect, however, reverses in cases of over...
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Elsevier B.V.
2021
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