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)