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Causality Illusion and Overconfidence in Predicting (Quasi)Stochastic Financial Events [PDF]

open access: yesActa Oeconomica Pragensia, 2017
Petr Houdek   +3 more
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Learning and causal illusion: the role of outcome frequency and causal framing in the development of false beliefs

open access: yes, 2021
People are highly accurate at learning about cause and effect relationships in the environment. Illusory causation is a phenomenon where people consistently overestimate the relationship between a putative cause and an outcome when there is no real contingency between them.
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What Causal Illusions Might Tell us about the Identification of Causes

open access: yes, 2016
According to existing accounts of causation, people rely on asingle criterion to identify the cause of an event. Thephenomenon of causal illusions raises problems for suchviews. Causal illusions arise when a particular factor isperceived to be causal despite knowledge indicatingotherwise.
Thorstad, Robert, Wolff, Phillip
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The Role of Prior Beliefs in Causal Illusions

open access: yesCognition
David W. Ng   +2 more
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