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The interplay between covariation, temporal, and mechanism information in singular causation judgments

2021-05-11

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<p>Most psychological studies on causal cognition have focused on how people make predictions from causes to effects or how they assess causal strength for general causal relationships (e.g., “smoking causes cancer”). In the past years, there has been a surge of interest in other types of causal judgments, such as diagnostic inferences or causal selection. Our focus here is on how people assess singular causation...

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Literature Corpus work: 3b960f87-9fe7-51a4-b905-2e9bccdf57b5
DOI: 10.31234/osf.io/ucafn

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