Causal Beliefs Influence the Perception of Temporal Order
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Philosophers and scientists have long recognized how useful people find the temporal order of events as a guide to uncovering the causal relations among those events (e.g., Hume, 1739; Lagnado & Sloman 2004, 2006; White, 2006). In this paper we provide evidence for the converse, that beliefs about causation influence the perception of temporal order. Participants that learned the structure of causal relations among a set of slider bars on a computer screen were biased to report the movements of the sliders as conforming to a temporal order consistent with their causal beliefs despite the absence of a correlation between temporal order and causal structure in the stimuli.
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