Causal judgement: use of different types of contingency information as confirmatory and disconfirmatory

White, Peter Anthony ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9080-6678 1998. Causal judgement: use of different types of contingency information as confirmatory and disconfirmatory. European Journal of Cognitive Psychology 10 (2) , pp. 131-170. 10.1080/713752269

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Abstract

In three experiments, participants made causal judgements from summary presentations of information about occurrences and non-occurrences of an effect in the presence and absence of possible causes. Participants' judgements could best be accounted for by the hypothesis that some were tending to use cell information in idiosyncratic ways: types of contingency information normatively regarded as confirmatory were sometimes treated as disconfirmatory and vice versa. In all three experiments, participants' judgements were better predicted by a model based on this evidence than by the probabilistic contrast model (Cheng and Novick, 1992) or the Power PC theory (Cheng, 1997).

Item Type:	Article
Status:	Published
Schools:	Psychology
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
ISSN:	0954-1446
Last Modified:	20 Oct 2022 09:56
URI:	https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/33589

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