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Description: In this folder you can find the details of experiments run as part of a project reported on in Schulz, K., Smets, S., Velázquez-Quesada, F. R., & Xie, K. (2019). A logical and empirical study of right-nested counterfactuals. In P. Blackburn, E. Lorini, & M. Guo (Eds.), Logic, Rationality, and Interaction: 7th International Workshop, LORI 2019, Chongqing, China, October 18–21, 2019 : proceedings (pp. 259-272). (Lecture Notes in Computer Science; Vol. 11813), (FoLLI Publications on Logic, Language and Information). Berlin: Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-60292-8_19. The goal here is to develop an interventionist approach to the meaning of counterfactuals that can account correctly for the meaning of right-nested counterfactuals. In the first experiment we confirmed the observations reported on in Fisher (2017 - see the references in the paper). In the second experiment we wanted to see whether the results also extend to counterfactuals that evaluate more complex causal dependencies.