Alternatives or syntactic negation? Adults’ and children’s preferences for constructing counterfactual possibilities
Abstract
Reasoning with counterfactuals such as “if his sister had entered silently, the child would have been awake”, requires considering what is conjectured (“his sister entered silently”) and what is the counterfactual possibility (“his sister did not enter silently”). In two experiments, we test how both adults (Study 1) and children from 8 to 12 years (Study 2) construct counterfactual possibilities about the cause of an effect (“the child was...
Paper Details
Title
Alternatives or syntactic negation? Adults’ and children’s preferences for constructing counterfactual possibilities
Published Date
Nov 18, 2021
Journal
Volume
42
Issue
14
Pages
11967 - 11979
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