ArticleOpen mind : discoveries in cognitive science2024
Instruction on the Scientific Method Provides (Some) Protection Against Illusions of Causality.
Article in Open mind : discoveries in cognitive science, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers.
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- Presentation format influences the strength of causal illusions.Memory & cognition · 2025Article
- Reducing the causal illusion: a question of motivation or of information?Royal Society open science · 2025Article
- Individual differences in the evolution of causal illusions.British journal of psychology (London, England : 1953) · 2025Article
- A large-scale study and six-month follow-up of an intervention to reduce causal illusions in high school students.Royal Society open science · 2024Article
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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
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