Ulterior Motives

How goals, both seen and unseen, drive behavior.
by Art Markman, Ph.D.

How do we decide whether you are to blame?

By Art Markman, Ph.D. on December 4, 2009 in Ulterior Motives

There are lots of situations in which we have to assign blame for an event to a particular person or group of individuals. Much of the daily newspaper is devoted to deciding who caused events to occur. Wars may be caused by the actions of a government. A suspect may be the cause of a series of bank robberies. A particular player may be given the blame for the loss of a football game. Read More

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Art Markman, Ph.D.

Art Markman, Ph.D., is a cognitive scientist at the University of Texas whose research spans a range of topics in the way people think.

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