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Fregean Particularism [PDF]

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Schellenberg, Susanna
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Causal Learning in Gambling Disorder: Beyond the Illusion of Control

Journal of Gambling Studies, 2016
Causal learning is the ability to progressively incorporate raw information about dependencies between events, or between one's behavior and its outcomes, into beliefs of the causal structure of the world. In spite of the fact that some cognitive biases in gambling disorder can be described as alterations of causal learning involving gambling-relevant ...
José C, Perales   +4 more
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Reducing demand for ineffective health remedies: overcoming the illusion of causality

Psychology & Health, 2018
We tested a novel intervention for reducing demand for ineffective health remedies. The intervention aimed to empower participants to overcome the illusion of causality, which otherwise drives erroneous perceptions regarding remedy efficacy.A laboratory experiment adopted a between-participants design with six conditions that varied the amount of ...
Douglas MacFarlane   +2 more
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Causal Dynamics of Scalp Electroencephalography Oscillation During the Rubber Hand Illusion

Brain Topography, 2016
Rubber hand illusion (RHI) is an important phenomenon for the investigation of body ownership and self/other distinction. The illusion is promoted by the spatial and temporal contingencies of visual inputs near a fake hand and physical touches to the real hand. The neural basis of this phenomenon is not fully understood. We hypothesized that the RHI is
Kanayama, Noriaki   +3 more
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The Illusion of Causality: A Cognitive Bias Underlying Pseudoscience

2018
In the last decades, cognitive Psychology has provided researchers with a powerful background and the rigor of experimental methods to better understand why so many people believe in pseudoscience, paranormal phenomena and superstitions. According to recent evidence, those irrational beliefs could be the unintended result of how the mind evolved to use
Fernando Blanco, Helena Matute
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Does perceptual disfluency affect the illusion of causality?

Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology
When a subjective experience of difficulty is associated with a mental task, people tend to engage in systematic and deliberative reasoning, which can reduce the usage of intuitive and effortless thinking that gives rise to cognitive biases.
Dalla Bona S., Vicovaro M.
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Causal versus diagnostic contingencies: On self-deception and on the voter's illusion.

Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 1984
Abstract : Two experiments were conducted to test the notion that people select actions that are diagnostic of favorable outcomes even though the actions do not cause those outcomes. In the first experiment, subjects immersed their forearm into a chest of circulating cold water before and after physical exercise.
George A. Quattrone, Amos Tversky
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Data and materials for "Base-rate expectations modulate the causal illusion"

2017
Data and materials for "BASE-RATE EXPECTATIONS MODULATE THE CAUSAL ILLUSION" (submitted)
Matute, Helena, Blanco, Fernando
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