Making causal judgements from contingency information: the pCI rule

White, Peter Anthony ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9080-6678 2003. Making causal judgements from contingency information: the pCI rule. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition 29 (4) , pp. 710-727. 10.1037/0278-7393.29.4.710

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Abstract

It is proposed that causal judgments about contingency information are derived from the proportion of confirmatory instances (pCI) that are evaluated as confirmatory for the causal candidate. In 6 experiments, pCI values were manipulated independently of objective contingencies assessed by the ΔP rule. Significant effects of the pCI manipulations were found in all cases, but causal judgments did not vary significantly with objective contingencies when pCI was held constant. The experiments used a variety of stimulus presentation procedures and different dependent measures. The power PC theory, a weighted version of the ΔP rule, the Rescorla-Wagner associative learning model (R. A. Rescorla & A. R. Wagner, 1972), and the ΔD rule, which is the frequency-based version of the pCI rule, were unable to account for the significant effects of the pCI manipulations. These results are consistent with a general explanatory approach to causal judgment involving the evaluation of evidence and updating of beliefs with regard to causal hypotheses. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2012 APA, all rights reserved)

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/3424

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