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illusion of causality: a standalone construct

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Cognitive psychology

believing that one event causes another when the two are actually unrelated, common in pseudomedicine and superstition.

In cognitive psychology, illusion of causality refers to believing that one event causes another when the two are actually unrelated, common in pseudomedicine and superstition. This meaning comes from Matute (2015) in Frontiers in Psychology.[1]

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Matute, H., Blanco, F., Yarritu, I., Díaz-Lago, M., Vadillo, M. A., & Barberia, I. (2015). Illusions of causality: how they bias our everyday thinking and how they could be reduced. Frontiers in Psychology, 6. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2015.00888

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