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    "pk": 25636,
    "title": "Naïve Beliefs About Intervening on Causes and Symptoms in the Health Domain",
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    "abstract": "<p>In two experiments we tested people’s naïve beliefs about where interventions act in real-world causal systems. We provided people with a description of a novel health condition that could be treated by two different treatments, a medication and a lifestyle modification. Participants judged a medication as acting on the symptoms of a disorder instead of the cause of the disorder, while a lifestyle modification was seen as acting on both the cause and the symptoms of a health condition (Experiment 1). These results held despite participants rating both treatments as effective. Providing information about the specific causal mechanism by which a treatment could work did not increase beliefs about a medication’s ability to target the cause of a disorder (Experiment 2). Implications for understanding of everyday causal interventions and health treatments is discussed.</p>",
    "language": "eng",
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    "keywords": [
        {
            "word": "causal reasoning; interventions; health carereasoning."
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    "section": "Papers",
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    "frozenauthors": [
        {
            "first_name": "Jessecae",
            "middle_name": "K",
            "last_name": "Marsh",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "Lehigh University",
            "department": ""
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        {
            "first_name": "Andrew",
            "middle_name": "",
            "last_name": "Zeveney",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "Lehigh University",
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    "date_submitted": null,
    "date_accepted": null,
    "date_published": "2015-01-01T10:00:00-08:00",
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