kim doo-shin

Temporal Precedence of Threat Does Not Establish Absence of Control: A Causal-Control Analysis of Fear via Top-Down Reappraisal (Version 1.1)

The observation that a threat stimulus precedes the fear response is often taken to imply that the response escapes control. This paper argues that such an inference is not logically warranted by temporal precedence alone. Drawing on structural causal models (Pearl, 2009; Spirtes...

Temporal Precedence of Threat Does Not Establish Absence of Control: A Causal-Control Analysis of Fear via Top-Down Reappraisal (Version 1.1)

The observation that a threat stimulus precedes the fear response is often taken to imply that the response escapes control. This paper argues that such an inference is not logically warranted by temporal precedence alone. Drawing on structural causal models (Pearl, 2009; Spirtes...