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Direct linkCummins, Denise Dellarosa – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2014
People consider alternative causes when deciding whether a cause is responsible for an effect (diagnostic inference) but appear to neglect them when deciding whether an effect will occur (predictive inference). Five experiments were conducted to test a 2-part explanation of this phenomenon: namely, (a) that people interpret standard predictive…
Descriptors: Inferences, Prediction, Experiments, Experimental Psychology
