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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Illusions of causality: How they bias our everyday thinking and how they could be reduced [PDF]
Frontiers in Psychology, 2015 Illusions of causality occur when people develop the belief that there is a causal connection between two events that are actually unrelated. Such illusions have been proposed to underlie pseudoscience and superstitious thinking, sometimes leading to ...
Helena eMatute +5 more
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Scarcity affects cognitive biases: The case of the illusion of causality
Acta Psychologica, 2023 Previous research indicates that economic scarcity affects people's judgments, decisions, and cognition in a variety of contexts, and with various consequences. We hypothesized that scarcity could sometimes reduce cognitive biases. Specifically, it could
Aranzazu Vinas +2 more
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Supraspinal Characterization of the Thermal Grill Illusion with fMRI [PDF]
Molecular Pain, 2014 Background: Simultaneous presentation of non-noxious warm (40°C) and cold (20°C) stimuli in an interlacing fashion results in a transient hot burning noxious sensation (matched at 46°C) known as the thermal grill (TG) illusion.
Albert Leung +4 more
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Are the symptoms really remitting? How the subjective interpretation of outcomes can produce an illusion of causality [PDF]
Judgment and Decision Making, 2020 Judgments of a treatment’s effectiveness are usually biased by the probability with which the outcome (e.g., symptom relief) appears: even when the treatment is completely ineffective (i.e., there is a null contingency between cause and outcome ...
Fernando Blanco +2 more
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Traumatic appendicitis is probably not real: an illustrative analysis of coincidental occurrences in nature [PDF]
Trauma Surgery & Acute Care Open, 2023 There have been sporadic case reports describing ‘traumatic appendicitis’ (acute appendicitis occurring following injury) for almost a hundred years.
David N Naumann, Tom Barker
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Expensive seems better: The price of a non-effective drug modulates its perceived efficacy [PDF]
Cognitive Research, 2023 Previous studies have shown that the price of a given product impacts the perceived quality of such product. This finding was also observed in medical contexts, showing that expensive drugs increase the placebo effect compared to inexpensive ones ...
Marcos Díaz-Lago +2 more
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Exploring the influence of self-identification on perceptual judgments of physical and social causality [PDF]
PeerJPeople tend to overestimate the causal contribution of the self to the observed outcome in various situations, a cognitive bias known as the ‘illusion of control.’ This study delves into whether this cognitive bias impacts causality judgments in ...
Michele Vicovaro +2 more
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A hard to read font reduces the causality bias [PDF]
Judgment and Decision Making, 2019 Previous studies have demonstrated that fluency affects judgment and decision-making. The purpose of the present research was to investigate the effect of perceptual fluency in a causal learning task that usually induces an illusion of causality in non ...
Marcos Díaz-Lago, Helena Matute
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A Granger Causal Analysis of Tax-Spend Hypothesis: Evidence from Malaysia [PDF]
SHS Web of Conferences, 2021 In economics, the investigation of the association between government revenues (GR) and government expenditures (GE) remains an essential discussion because of its vital role in policy implication concerning the Budget deficit. This paper aims to conduct
Khan Hanana +2 more
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