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Direct linkLagnado, David A.; Sloman, Steven A. – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2006
How do people learn causal structure? In 2 studies, the authors investigated the interplay between temporal-order, intervention, and covariational cues. In Study 1, temporal order overrode covariation information, leading to spurious causal inferences when the temporal cues were misleading. In Study 2, both temporal order and intervention…
Descriptors: Time, Causal Models, Time Factors (Learning), Intervention
