The role of mechanism and covariation information in causal belief updating

Cognition

Volumn 105, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 704-714

  Perales, José C ^a   Catena, Andrés ^a   Maldonado, Antonio ^a   Cándido, Antonio ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRANADA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Belief updating; Causal induction; Causal models; Causality; Contingency

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFORMATION; MALE; MODEL; PAIN ASSESSMENT; PERCEPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUESTIONNAIRE; STOMACH PAIN;

ADULT; COGNITION; CULTURE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; QUESTIONNAIRES;

EID: 34848846827     PISSN: 00100277     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cognition.2006.12.003     Document Type: Article

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