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SUBMITTER: Gomez-Sanchez J
PROVIDER: S-EPMC7717521 | biostudies-literature | 2020
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
PloS one 20201204 12
Thinking about counterfactual conditionals such as "if she had not painted the sheet of paper, it would have been blank" requires us to consider what is conjectured (She did not paint and the sheet was blank) and what actually happened (She painted and the sheet was not blank). In two experiments with adults (Study 1) and schoolchildren from 7 to 13 years (Study 2), we tested three potential sources of difficulty with counterfactuals: inferring, distinguishing what is real vs conjectured (episte ...[more]