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Scenario Mutability and Need for Cognition: Appointing Blame Former Student Abstract The primary focus of this study is to analyze the extent of culpability people place on a particular factor depending on the preventability of the outcome. The research conducted two studies, while study one comprises of seventy-five students from Florida International University and study two includes one hundred and sixty University students. Study one has one independent variable, scenario condition, whereas study two has two independent variables which include; Need for Cognition (NFC) and scenario condition. From the data analysis, study one discovered that the taxi driver in a changeable condition receives more blame compared to the actor in the unchangeable and the neutral conditions. Besides, counterfactual statements provided for the changeable, unchangeable and neutral situation did not differ. In study two, the findings indicate that the NFC has not had an impact on the counterfactual statements. The scenario condition, on the other hand, reported that the participants in the changeable condition perceived the taxi driver as blameworthy while compared to the participants in the unchangeable condition. The two studies indicate that while the scenario condition can play a part in the generation of counterfactuals, NFC has no impact on the generation of “if only” statements. Keywords: Changeable condition, Unchangeable condition, Neutral Condition, High NFC, Low NFC, Counterfact ...
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