Article Instance

HTTP 200 OK
Allow: GET
Content-Type: application/json
Vary: Accept

{
    "pk": 27969,
    "title": "Illusory causation and outcome density effects with a continuous and variable outcome",
    "subtitle": null,
    "abstract": "Illusory causation is a consistent error in human learning inwhich people perceive two unrelated events as being causallyrelated. Causal illusions are greatly increased when the targetoutcome occurs frequently rather than rarely, a characteristicknown as the outcome density bias. Unlike most experimentaldesigns using binary outcomes, real-world problems to whichillusory causation is most applicable (e.g. beliefs aboutineffective health therapies) involve continuous and variableconsequences that are not readily classifiable as the presenceor absence of a salient event. This study used a causallearning task framed as a medical trial to investigate whetheroutcome density effects emerged when using a continuousand variable outcome that appeared on every trial.Experiment 1 compared the effects of using fixed outcomevalues (i.e. consistent low and high magnitudes) versusvariable outcome values (i.e. low and high magnitudesvarying around two means in a bimodal distribution).Experiment 2 compared positively skewed (low density) andnegatively skewed (high density) continuous distributions.These conditions yielded comparable outcome density effects,providing empirical support for the relevance of the outcomedensity bias to real-world situations in which outcomes arenot binary but occur to differing degrees.",
    "language": "eng",
    "license": {
        "name": "",
        "short_name": "",
        "text": null,
        "url": ""
    },
    "keywords": [
        {
            "word": "illusory causation; outcome density; casual learning; contingency learning"
        }
    ],
    "section": "Publication-based-Talks",
    "is_remote": true,
    "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/3bq4b6pq",
    "frozenauthors": [
        {
            "first_name": "Julie",
            "middle_name": "Y.L.",
            "last_name": "Chow",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "University of Sydney",
            "department": ""
        },
        {
            "first_name": "Hilary",
            "middle_name": "J",
            "last_name": "Don",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "U of Sydney",
            "department": ""
        },
        {
            "first_name": "Ben",
            "middle_name": "",
            "last_name": "Colagiuri",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "U of Sydney",
            "department": ""
        },
        {
            "first_name": "Evan",
            "middle_name": "J",
            "last_name": "Livesey",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "U of Sydney",
            "department": ""
        }
    ],
    "date_submitted": null,
    "date_accepted": null,
    "date_published": "2018-01-01T18:00:00Z",
    "render_galley": null,
    "galleys": [
        {
            "label": "PDF",
            "type": "pdf",
            "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/27969/galley/17607/download/"
        }
    ]
}