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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, Miguel A. Vadillo, Javier Rodríguez-Ferreiro, Javier Rodríguez-Ferreiro   +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, Braulio Gómez-Fortes, Helena Matute   +2 more
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Reducing the causal illusion: a question of motivation or of information? [PDF]

R Soc Open Sci
The causal illusion is a cognitive bias that involves believing that one event causes another when it does not. It has negative consequences in different spheres of life, including health. Therefore, diverse interventions have been designed to reduce it. The more common ones are educational interventions.
Vinas A, Blanco F, Matute H.
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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, Shapiro, Joel, Hullman, Jessica, Franconeri, Steven   +3 more
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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, Itxaso Barberia, Javier Rodríguez‐Ferreiro   +2 more
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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, Blanco Bregón, Fernando, Matute, Helena   +2 more
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Transient propagation: An explanation for superluminal phenomena

Results in Optics, 2022
Based on an established rigorous solution for transient propagation of electromagnetic waves, an explanation for superluminal phenomena is proposed. Faster-than-light traveling appears an illusion due to group reshaping.
Mufei Xiao
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Individual differences in the evolution of causal illusions. [PDF]

Br J Psychol
Abstract In this research, we investigated individual differences in the formation and persistence of causal illusions. In a re‐analysis of existing data, we identified two clusters of participants – persistent and adjusting – based on their trajectories in learning from repeated exposure to null contingencies.
García-Arch J, Rodríguez-Ferreiro J, Barberia I.   +2 more
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Instruction on the Scientific Method Provides (Some) Protection Against Illusions of Causality. [PDF]

Open Mind (Camb)
Abstract People tend to overestimate the efficacy of an ineffective treatment when they experience the treatment and its supposed outcome co-occurring frequently. This is referred to as the outcome density effect. Here, we attempted to improve the accuracy of participants’ assessments of an ineffective treatment by instructing them about
Chow JYL, Goldwater MB, Colagiuri B, Livesey EJ.   +3 more
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Illusions of causality at the heart of pseudoscience

British Journal of Psychology, 2011
Pseudoscience, superstitions, and quackery are serious problems that threaten public health and in which many variables are involved. Psychology, however, has much to say about them, as it is the illusory perceptions of causality of so many people that needs to be understood.
Matute, Helena, Yarritu, Ion, Vadillo, Miguel A.   +2 more
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