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How do people generalize causal relations over objects? A non-parametric Bayesian account

2021-07-06

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<p>How do people decide how general a causal relationship is, in terms of the entities or situations it applies to? What features do people use to decide whether a new situation is governed by a new causal law or an old one? How can people make these difficult judgments in a fast, efficient way? We address these questions in two experiments that ask participants to generalize from one (Experiment 1) or several (Ex...

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DOI: 10.31234/osf.io/x57hf

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