Interaction between previous beliefs and cue predictive value in covariation-based causal induction

Acta Psychologica

Volumn 128, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 339-349

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

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRANADA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Belief revision; Causal learning; Contingency; Learning

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; COGNITION; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; HUMAN; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; PSYCHOLOGICAL MODEL;

COGNITION; CUES; CULTURE; HUMANS; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 44549086017     PISSN: 00016918     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.actpsy.2008.03.005     Document Type: Article

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