In everyday life causal attribution is important in order to structure the complex world,
provide explanations for events and to understand why our environment interacts with us in …

Objective The causal attribution of depressive patients in negative events was significantly
important. However, few previous studies have explored its neural underpinnings. Methods …

We use causal attributions to infer the most likely cause of events in the social world. Internal
attributions imply self-responsibility for events. The self-serving bias describes the tendency …

Attributions are constantly assigned in everyday life. A well-known phenomenon is the self-
serving bias: that is, people's tendency to attribute positive events to internal causes …

This study compares brain activation during causal attribution to three different loci, the self,
another person and the situation; and further explores correlations with clinical scales (ie …

A fundamental challenge facing social perceivers is identifying the cause underlying other
people's behavior. Evidence indicates that East Asian perceivers are more likely than …

Understanding cause and effect is a fundamental aspect of human cognition. When shown
videos of simple two-dimensional shapes colliding, humans experience one object causing …

BACKGROUND: Biased causal attribution is a critical factor in the cognitive model of
depression. Whereas depressed patients interpret events negatively, healthy people show a …

Filmmakers have long recognized the importance of editing techniques to guide the
audiences' perceptions and enhance the impact of a scene. We demonstrate behaviorally …

Social responsibility links personal behavior with societal expectations and plays a key role
in affecting an agent's emotional state following a decision. However, the neural basis of …