tobiasgerstenberg/causal_expectations

This project investigates how expectations affect causal selections in visual animations.

Causal expectations

This repository contains the data, experiments, and analysis script for the paper "Expectations affect physical causation judgments" by Tobias Gerstenberg and Thomas Icard.

Project structure

├── code
│   ├── R
│   └── experiments
│       ├── Experiment_1
│       ├── Experiment_2
│       ├── Experiment_3
│       └── Experiment_4
├── data
├── docs
├── figures
└── videos

• code/R/: analysis code
  • the analysis code can be viewed directly here
• code/experiments/: experiment code
  • experiments were run using psiturk
• data/: contains the participant data base
• figures/: diagram and results figure
• videos/: video of each type of clip shown to participants; note that in the experiment, the position of the balls and the positions of the blocks was counterbalanced (e.g. for some participants, ball A was at the top and ball B at the bottom, and vice versa for other participants)