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Direct linkRottman, Benjamin M.; Keil, Frank C. – Cognitive Psychology, 2012
Seven studies examined how people learn causal relationships in scenarios when the variables are temporally dependent--the states of variables are stable over time. When people intervene on X, and Y subsequently changes state compared to before the intervention, people infer that X influences Y. This strategy allows people to learn causal…
Descriptors: Reaction Time, Causal Models, Prediction, Observation
