Are the symptoms really remitting? How the subjective interpretation of outcomes can produce an illusion of causality
Judgments of a treatment’s effectiveness are usually biased by the probability with which the outcome (e.g., symptom relief) appears: even when the treatment is completely ineffective (i.e., there is a null contingency between cause and outcome), judgments tend to be higher when outcomes appear with...
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| Language: | English |
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Society for Judgment and Decision Making
2020-07-01
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| Series: | Judgment and Decision Making |
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| Online Access: | http://journal.sjdm.org/19/191104/jdm191104.pdf |