The Role of Mechanism and Covariation Information in Causal Belief Updating

Autor/inn/en	Perales, Jose C.; Catena, Andres; Maldonado, Antonio; Candido, Antonio
Titel	The Role of Mechanism and Covariation Information in Causal Belief Updating
Quelle	In: Cognition, 105 (2007) 3, S.704-714 (11 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0010-0277
DOI	10.1016/j.cognition.2006.12.003
Schlagwörter	Cognitive Processes; Role; Beliefs; Causal Models; Attitude Change + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Cognitive process; Kognitiver Prozess; Rollen; Belief; Glaube; Kausalanalyse; Attitudinal change; Einstellungsänderung
Abstract	The present study is aimed at identifying how prior causal beliefs and covariation information contribute to belief updating when evidence, either compatible or contradictory with those beliefs, is provided. Participants were presented with a cover story with which it was intended to activate or generate a causal belief. Variables related to the prior belief (the type of information, the strength of the cause-effect causal link, and how confident the participant was that the link existed) were assessed. Subsequently, participants were presented with covariational information and were asked to update their beliefs in light of the new evidence. Information reliability, prior belief's causal influence magnitude, and the cause-effect level of contingency portrayed by the new information--but not the type of the prior belief--are shown to directly determine belief updating. (Author).
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