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Title: | Causal illusion as a cognitive basis of pseudoscientific beliefs |
Author: | Torres, Marta N. (Marta Natalia) Barberia, Itxaso Rodríguez-Ferreiro, Javier |
Keywords: | Actitud (Psicologia) Pseudociència Superstició Cognició Attitude (Psychology) Pseudoscience Superstition Cognition |
Issue Date: | 2020 |
Publisher: | Wiley |
Abstract: | 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 = 225) responded to a novel questionnaire of pseudoscientific beliefs designed for this study. They also completed a contingency learning task in which a possible cause, infusion intake, and a desired effect, headache remission, were actually non‐contingent. Volunteers with higher scores on the questionnaire also presented stronger causal illusion effects. These results support the hypothesis that causal illusions might play a fundamental role in the endorsement of pseudoscientific beliefs. |
Note: | Versió postprint del document publicat a: https://doi.org/10.1111/bjop.12441 |
It is part of: | British Journal of Psychology, 2020, vol. early access |
URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/2445/165163 |
Related resource: | https://doi.org/10.1111/bjop.12441 |
ISSN: | 0007-1269 |
Appears in Collections: | Articles publicats en revistes (Cognició, Desenvolupament i Psicologia de l'Educació) Articles publicats en revistes (Institut de Neurociències (UBNeuro)) |
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