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Instrumental Causal Learning

2023-10-27

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<p>Causal learning has traditionally been regarded as a process of forming epistemically accurate causal beliefs that represent the world. Yet, considering that a primary function of causal learning is to further people’s practical goals by increasing their control over their surroundings, perhaps people also evaluate the instrumental value of causal beliefs when forming them—that is, what are the causal beliefs t...

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Literature Corpus work: f84bc892-bd5e-54f3-a3cd-2853ba4a88cb
DOI: 10.31234/osf.io/bnsq4

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