Blame-validation: Beyond rationality? Effect of causal link on the relationship between evaluation and causal judgment - Archive ouverte HAL Accéder directement au contenu
Article Dans Une Revue Philosophical Psychology Année : 2023

Blame-validation: Beyond rationality? Effect of causal link on the relationship between evaluation and causal judgment

Valentin Goulette
Fanny Verkampt

Résumé

The Culpable Control Model assumes that causal judgments are irrational: a negative evaluative reaction to an agent would lead individuals to overestimate his causal contribution to a harm. However, the extent to which these judgments deviate from criteria of rationality remains unclear. The two present studies aimed at investigating conditions under which this effect occurs. Participants red a vignette in which the evaluative reaction was operationalized through the agent’s motives (blameworthy, laudable). We also varied the causal link between the agent’s action and the outcome (strong, weak, preempted). In both studies, we found that negative motives influenced causal judgments when a strong action-outcome link could be established. In Study 2, we replicated the effect of motives on causal judgment in the weak link condition. However, participants consistently judged the agent as less causal when the link was weak (vs. strong), regardless of the agent’s motives. These findings show that both the presence and the strength of the actual causal link between the action and the outcome moderate the detrimental effect of negative evaluative reactions on causal judgments. Thus, common sense causal judgments seem to deviate relatively little from the criteria of rationality.
Fichier non déposé

Dates et versions

hal-04114568 , version 1 (02-06-2023)

Identifiants

Citer

Valentin Goulette, Fanny Verkampt. Blame-validation: Beyond rationality? Effect of causal link on the relationship between evaluation and causal judgment. Philosophical Psychology, In press, pp.1-20. ⟨10.1080/09515089.2023.2217834⟩. ⟨hal-04114568⟩
17 Consultations
0 Téléchargements

Altmetric

Partager

Gmail Facebook X LinkedIn More