Much Ado About Nothing: The Mental Representation of Omissive Relations

When the absence of an event causes some outcome, it is an instance of omissive causation. For instance, not eating lunch may cause you to be hungry. Recent psychological proposals concur that the mind represents causal relations, including omissive causal relations, through mental simulation, but t...

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Main Authors: Sangeet Khemlani, Paul Bello, Gordon Briggs, Hillary Harner, Christina Wasylyshyn
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2021-02-01
Series:Frontiers in Psychology
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Online Access:https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2020.609658/full