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    Knowledge-based causal attribution: The abnormal conditions focus model.Denis J. Hilton & Ben R. Slugoski - 1986 - Psychological Review 93 (1):75-88.
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    The psychology of counterfactual thinking.David R. Mandel, Denis J. Hilton & Patrizia Catellani (eds.) - 2005 - New York: Routledge.
    It is human nature to wonder how things might have turned out differently--either for the better or for the worse. For the past two decades psychologists have been intrigued by this phenomenon, which they call counterfactual thinking. Specifically, researchers have sought to answer the "big" questions: Why do people have such a strong propensity to generate counterfactuals, and what functions does counterfactual thinking serve? What are the determinants of counterfactual thinking, and what are its adaptive and psychological consequences? This important (...)
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  3. Mental models and causal explanation: Judgements of probable cause and explanatory relevance.Denis J. Hilton - 1996 - Thinking and Reasoning 2 (4):273 – 308.
    Good explanations are not only true or probably true, but are also relevant to a causal question. Current models of causal explanation either only address the question of the truth of an explanation, or do not distinguish the probability of an explanation from its relevance. The tasks of scenario construction and conversational explanation are distinguished, which in turn shows how scenarios can interact with conversational principles to determine the truth and relevance of explanations. The proposed model distinguishes causal discounting from (...)
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    A question of detail: matching counterfactuals to actual cause in pre-emption scenarios.Denis Hilton, Christophe Schmeltzer & Valentin Goulette - 2021 - Thinking and Reasoning 27 (3):350-388.
    Causal pre-emption scenarios are problematic for the counterfactual framework of causation (CFC) because people judge an action to be the actual cause of an outcome although the outcome would have occurred anyway due to the action of a pre-empted alternative cause. We propose that commonsense causal questions typically probe specific events that actually happened as and how they did, and show that counterfactuals that probe specific events match selections of actual cause, and dissociations only occur with non-specific counterfactuals. In addition, (...)
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    The suppression of modus ponens as a case of pragmatic preconditional reasoning.Jean-Francois Bonnefon & Denis J. Hilton - 2002 - Thinking and Reasoning 8 (1):21 – 40.
    The suppression of the Modus Ponens inference is described as a loss of confidence in the conclusion C of an argument ''If A1 then C; If A2 then C; A1'' where A2 is a requirement for C to happen. It is hypothesised that this loss of confidence is due to the derivation of the conversational implicature ''there is a chance that A2 might not be satisfied'', and that different syntactic introductions of the requirement A2 (e.g., ''If C then A2'') will (...)
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    Acting knowingly: effects of the agent's awareness of an opportunity on causal attributions.Denis J. Hilton, John McClure & Briar Moir - 2016 - Thinking and Reasoning 22 (4):461-494.
    ABSTRACTAccording to difference-based models of causal judgement, the epistemic state of the agent should not affect judgements of cause. Four experiments examined opportunity chains in which a physical event enabled a subsequent proximal cause to produce an outcome. All four experiments showed that when the proximal cause was a human action, it was judged as more causal if the agent was aware of his opportunity than if he was not or if the proximal cause was a physical event. The first (...)
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  7. Logic and causal attribution.Denis J. Hilton - 1988 - In Contemporary science and natural explanation: commonsense conceptions of causality. New York: New York University Press.
     
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    Designing effective nudges that satisfy ethical constraints: the case of environmentally responsible behaviour.Denis Hilton, Nicolas Treich, Gaetan Lazzara & Philippe Tendil - 2018 - Mind and Society 17 (1-2):27-38.
    We discuss what makes a “good” environmental nudge from the policy maker’s point of view. We first delineate what is paternalistic about environmental nudges. We then discuss the effectiveness of nudges, including their paradoxical effects on the targeted behaviour, as well as possible collateral effects on the decision-maker’s wellbeing. We also discuss why the libertarian and ethical aspect of nudges may render them more, and not less, attractive as policy instruments and decision aids. We conclude by discussing accuracy and privacy (...)
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  9. Linguistic polarity, outcome framing, and the structure of decision making : a pragmatic approach.Denis J. Hilton - 2011 - In Gideon Keren, Perspectives on framing. New York: Psychology Press.
     
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    Contemporary science and natural explanation: commonsense conceptions of causality.Denis J. Hilton (ed.) - 1988 - New York: New York University Press.
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    Is the challenge for psychologists to return to behaviourism?Denis J. Hilton - 2001 - Behavioral and Brain Sciences 24 (3):415-416.
    I suggest that contemporary economics shares many of the characteristics of methodological behaviourism in psychology, with its emphasis on the influence of motivation, learning, and situational incentives on behaviour, and minimal interest in the details of the cognitive processes that transform input (information) into output (behaviour). The emphasis on these characteristics has the same strengths and weaknesses in economics as in behaviourist psychology.
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    11 Thinking about causality: pragmatic, social and scientific rationality.Denis Hilton - 2002 - In Peter Carruthers, Stephen P. Stich & Michael Siegal, The Cognitive Basis of Science. New York: Cambridge University Press. pp. 211.
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    To do or not to do? A cognitive consistency model for drawing conclusions from conditional instructions and advice.Christophe Schmeltzer & Denis J. Hilton - 2014 - Thinking and Reasoning 20 (1):16-50.
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    (2 other versions)How to do things with logical expressions.Denis Hilton, Gaëlle Villejoubert & Jean-François Bonnefon - 2005 - Interaction Studies. Social Behaviour and Communication in Biological and Artificial Systemsinteraction Studies / Social Behaviour and Communication in Biological and Artificial Systemsinteraction Studies 6 (1):103-117.
    We argue that logical expressions in human language enable speakers to perform particular acts as well as stating propositions which may be true or false. We present a conversational action planning model of co-ordinated reasoning, which we use to predict choice of logical expressions in situations in which two people co-operate in the face of risk and uncertainty. We first show how this model predicts preferences for formulations of conditional directives where a principal instructs an agent on how to behave (...)
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  15. Introduction, images of science and commonsense explanation.Denis J. Hilton - 1988 - In Contemporary science and natural explanation: commonsense conceptions of causality. New York: New York University Press.
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    Reasoning about rights and duties: mental models, world knowledge and pragmatic interpretation.Denis J. Hilton, Laetitia Charalambides & Stéphanie Hoareau-Blanchet - 2016 - Thinking and Reasoning 22 (2):150-183.
    We address the way verb-based and rule-content knowledge are combined in understanding institutional deontics. Study 1 showed that the institutional regulations used in our studies were readily categorised into one of two content groups: rights or duties. Participants perceived rights as benefiting the addressees identified by the rule, whereas they perceived duties as benefiting the collective that imposed the rule. Studies 2, 3, and 4 showed that rule content had clear effects on perceptions of violations and relevance of cases for (...)
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    Book Reviews : Harry Redner, The Ends of Science: An Essay in Scientific Authority. Westview, Boulder, CO, 1987. Pp. xiv, 344, $43.50. [REVIEW]Denis J. Hilton - 1992 - Philosophy of the Social Sciences 22 (2):259-262.