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    Journal of Personality and Social Psychology
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    This study presents a causal reasoning model using knowledge structures like scripts and plans to understand behavior sequences. It explains how people infer actor goals and plans to construct coherent social scenarios.

    Area of Science:

    • Cognitive Psychology
    • Artificial Intelligence
    • Social Psychology

    Background:

    • Explaining extended behavior sequences is a key attributional problem.
    • Individuals construct coherent scenarios by inferring connections between actions.
    • Social and physical knowledge are crucial for making these connecting inferences.

    Purpose of the Study:

    • To present a model of causal reasoning based on Schank and Abelson's (1977) knowledge structures.
    • To outline the characteristics of a causal reasoning model.
    • To analyze how scripts, plans, goals, and themes facilitate scenario construction.

    Main Methods:

    • Utilizing Schank and Abelson's (1977) framework of knowledge structures (scripts, plans, goals, themes).
    • Developing a process model for constructing causal scenarios.

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  • Examining the implications and relations to existing attribution models (Kelley, Jones).

    • Main Results:

    • A model is presented that explains how people use knowledge structures to infer actor plans and goals.
    • The model demonstrates the construction of causal scenarios from action sequences.
    • Connecting inferences based on social and physical knowledge are central to scenario building.

    Conclusions:

    • The proposed model offers a framework for understanding causal reasoning in social attribution.
    • It highlights the role of knowledge structures in interpreting complex behaviors.
    • The model provides a basis for comparing and integrating with other attribution theories.