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Selectional processes in causality judgment.

D R Shanks

    Memory & Cognition
    |January 1, 1989
    PubMed
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    Causality judgments are influenced by competing causes. Introducing outcomes without the action, or delaying the action-outcome link, reduces perceived causality, but this can be altered by signaling stimuli.

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    Area of Science:

    • Cognitive Psychology
    • Decision Science

    Background:

    • Causality judgment is a fundamental cognitive process.
    • Understanding how people assess the relationship between actions and outcomes is crucial.

    Purpose of the Study:

    • To investigate how competition between potential causes affects causality judgments.
    • To examine the influence of outcome signaling and temporal delays on the perception of causality.

    Main Methods:

    • Two experiments were conducted involving human subjects.
    • Participants judged the extent to which an action caused an outcome under varying conditions.

    Main Results:

    • Introducing outcomes absent the action decreased causality judgments, an effect lessened by outcome signaling.

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  • A delay between action and outcome reduced judgments, but this reduction was abolished by an intervening stimulus.

    • Conclusions:

    • Causality judgments are based on associations between mental representations of actions and outcomes.
    • The presence of competing causes and temporal factors significantly modulate these judgments.