Journal article
Cue competition in causality judgments: The role of manner of information presentation
Bulletin of the Psychonomic Society, Vol.31(5), pp.457-460
05/1993
DOI: 10.3758/BF03334962
Abstract
College students rated the causal efficacy of elements X, A, and B of food compounds AX and BX in producing the allergic reaction of a hypothetical patient. Causal ratings were made for each food after subjects received all of the results of a 16-day allergy test. With both serial and simultaneous presentation of information, ratings of distinctive elements A and B diverged and ratings of common element X decreased as the difference between the correlation of AX and BX with the allergic reaction increased. These human diagnostic judgments closely correspond with stimulus selection effects observed in the conditioned responses of animals in associative learning studies.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Cue competition in causality judgments: The role of manner of information presentation
- Creators
- Linda J Van HammeEdward A Wasserman
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- Bulletin of the Psychonomic Society, Vol.31(5), pp.457-460
- DOI
- 10.3758/BF03334962
- ISSN
- 0090-5054
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 05/1993
- Academic Unit
- Psychological and Brain Sciences; Iowa Neuroscience Institute
- Record Identifier
- 9984070328902771
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