Causal illusions in children when the outcome is frequent.
Causal illusions occur when people perceive a causal relation between two events that are actually unrelated. One factor that has been shown to promote these mistaken beliefs is the outcome probability. Thus, people tend to overestimate the strength of a causal relation when the potential consequenc...
Main Authors: | María Manuela Moreno-Fernández, Fernando Blanco, Helena Matute |
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Public Library of Science (PLoS)
2017-01-01
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Series: | PLoS ONE |
Online Access: | http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC5595306?pdf=render |
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