Causal Strength and Reliability: Two Processes in Causal Reasoning
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The purpose of this study is to examine whether reasoners have two cognitive processes, the causal strength and the reliability, and how the processes work in causal judgments. In an experiment, participants’ causal judgments were varied depending on the conditions, which were introduced to activate either one of the two processes, as well as on the cell configurations between causes and effects. The results suggested the two different cognitive processes were involved in causal judgments and their interaction occurred in case a higher accuracy is needed. It is proposed that theories on causal reasoning should give regards to the reliability of data.
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