Causal judgements about relations between multi-level variables

White, Peter A. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9080-6678 2001. Causal judgements about relations between multi-level variables. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition 27 (2) , pp. 499-513. 10.1037/0278-7393.27.2.499

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Abstract

Three experiments presented stimulus information about cause and effect variables taking 3 quantitative values. Judgments tended to vary in accordance with considerations of conditions affecting the validity of causal inference from correlational data: whether causal candidates were presented simultaneously or in a temporal order such that one could affect the other and whether candidates were confounded with each other. The results supported a general hypothesis that causal judgments are moderated in accordance with acquired methodological intuitions. The 4th experiment showed that tendencies in correlation judgment were different from those in causal judgment, further supporting the hypothesis that causal judgment from multilevel variable information is, to some extent, determined by processes or conceptual frameworks specific to the domain of causal cognition.

Item Type:	Article
Date Type:	Publication
Status:	Published
Schools:	Psychology
Subjects:	B Philosophy. Psychology. Religion > BF Psychology
Publisher:	American Psychological Association
ISSN:	0278-7393
Last Modified:	17 Oct 2022 09:31
URI:	https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/3423

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