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Persistence of Causal Illusions After Extensive Training [PDF]
Frontiers in Psychology, 2019 We carried out an experiment using a conventional causal learning task but extending the number of learning trials participants were exposed to. Participants in the standard training group were exposed to 48 learning trials before being asked about the ...
Itxaso Barberia +3 more
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Causal Illusions in the Service of Political Attitudes in Spain and the United Kingdom [PDF]
Frontiers in Psychology, 2018 The causal illusion is a cognitive bias that results in the perception of causality where there is no supporting evidence. We show that people selectively exhibit the bias, especially in those situations where it favors their current worldview as ...
Fernando Blanco +2 more
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Previous knowledge can induce an illusion of causality through actively biasing behavior [PDF]
Frontiers in Psychology, 2015 It is generally assumed that the way people assess the relationship between a cause and an outcome is closely related to the actual evidence existing about the co-occurrence of these events.
Ion eYarritu, Helena eMatute
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When is a causal illusion an illusion? Separating discriminability and bias in human contingency judgements. [PDF]
Q J Exp Psychol (Hove)Humans often behave as if unrelated events are causally related. As the name suggests, such causal illusions imply failures to detect the absence of a causal relation. Taking a signal detection approach, we asked whether causal illusions indeed reflect failures of discriminability, or whether they reflect a general ...
Gomes-Ng S, Cowie S, Elliffe D.
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Illusion of Causality in Visualized Data [PDF]
IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, 2020 Students who eat breakfast more frequently tend to have a higher grade point average. From this data, many people might confidently state that a before-school breakfast program would lead to higher grades. This is a reasoning error, because correlation does not necessarily indicate causation -- X and Y can be correlated without one directly causing the
Xiong, Cindy +3 more
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Metacognition in the audiovisual McGurk illusion: perceptual and causal confidence [PDF]
Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 2023 SummaryAlmost all decisions in everyday life rely on multiple sensory inputs that can come from common or independent causes. These situations invoke perceptual uncertainty about environmental properties and the signals’ causal structure.Using the audiovisual McGurk illusion this study investigated how observers formed perceptual and causal confidence ...
David Meijer, Uta Noppeney
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Causal illusion as a cognitive basis of pseudoscientific beliefs [PDF]
British Journal of Psychology, 2020 Causal illusion has been proposed as a cognitive mediator of pseudoscientific beliefs. However, previous studies have only tested the association between this cognitive bias and a closely related but different type of unwarranted beliefs, those related to superstition and paranormal phenomena. Participants ( n
Marta N. Torres +2 more
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Perception of body ownership is driven by Bayesian sensory inference. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2015 Recent studies have shown that human perception of body ownership is highly malleable. A well-known example is the rubber hand illusion (RHI) wherein ownership over a dummy hand is experienced, and is generally believed to require synchronized stroking ...
Majed Samad +2 more
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Intra-hemispheric integration underlies perception of tilt illusion [PDF]
, 2018 The integration of inputs across the entire visual field into a single conscious experience is fundamental to human visual perception. This integrated nature of visual experience is illustrated by contextual illusions such as the tilt illusion, in which ...
Rees, Geraint, Song, Chen
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The tendency to stop collecting information is linked to illusions of causality [PDF]
Scientific Reports, 2021 AbstractPrevious research proposed that cognitive biases contribute to produce and maintain the symptoms exhibited by deluded patients. Specifically, the tendency to jump to conclusions (i.e., to stop collecting evidence soon before making a decision) has been claimed to contribute to delusion formation.
Moreno Fernández, María Manuela +2 more
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