Title : 
From Causal Scenarios to Social Causality: An Attributional Approach
         
        
            Author : 
Mao, Wenji ; Ge, Ansheng ; Li, Xiaochen
         
        
            Author_Institution : 
Chinese Acad. of Sci., Beijing, China
         
        
        
        
        
        
        
            Abstract : 
Inspired by the psychological attribution theory, this article presents a computational approach to construct causal scenarios and facilitate social causality studies based on online textual data.
         
        
            Keywords : 
psychology; social sciences; attributional approach; causal scenarios; online textual data; psychological attribution theory; social causality; Cognition; Computational modeling; Data mining; Data models; Intelligent systems; Psychology; attributional model; causal scenario; intelligent systems; knowledge extraction; social and economic computing; social causality; social reasoning;
         
        
        
            Journal_Title : 
Intelligent Systems, IEEE
         
        
        
        
        
            DOI : 
10.1109/MIS.2011.79