Temporal delays can facilitate causal attribution: Towards a general timeframe bias in causal induction

Thinking and Reasoning

Volumn 12, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 353-378

  Buehner, Marc J ^a,b   McGregor, Stuart ^a  

^a CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 33749486756     PISSN: 13546783     EISSN: 14640708     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13546780500368965     Document Type: Review

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