@article{ref1,
title="Knobe versus Machery: Testing the Trade‐Off Hypothesis",
journal="Mind and language",
year="2008",
author="Mallon, Ron",
volume="23",
number="2",
pages="247-255",
abstract="Abstract:  Recent work by Joshua Knobe has established that people are more likely to describe bad but foreseen side-effects as intentionally performed than good but foreseen side-effects (this is sometimes called the ‘Knobe effect’ or the ‘side-effect effect’. Edouard Machery has proposed a novel explanation for this asymmetry: it results from construing the bad side-effect as a cost that must be incurred to receive a benefit. In this paper, I argue that Machery’s ‘trade-off hypothesis’ is wrong. I do this by reproducing the asymmetry between judgments about good and bad side-effects in cases that cannot plausibly be construed as trade-offs.<p />",
language="",
issn="0268-1064",
doi="10.1111/j.1468-0017.2007.00339.x",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-0017.2007.00339.x"
}