This impressive volume reintroduces the importance of--and the contributions made by--
social psychology to school psychology. It provides an overview of the basic areas of social …

I present a cognitive model of the human ability to acquire causal relationships. I report on
experimental evidence demonstrating that human learners acquire accurate causal …

There is an interesting and somewhat puzzling disconnect in the psychological literature.
Much of the psychological research on causal reasoning (including probabilistic reasoning) …

How children learn to detect complex natural causes poses an important question for
developmental research. Most research has focused on children's comprehension of linear …

It has been widely reported that spatial contiguity is important to judgements of causality
involving one object launching another [Michotte's “launching effect”(1963, 1991)]. The …

In kritischer Auseinandersetzung mit dem Kulturrelativismus sowie der Position des
Universalismus wird in dieser Arbeit der Versuch unternommen, die These einer Struktur …

The unexpected discovery that certain chemotherapeutic agents used in the treatment of
childhood cancers have neurocognitive side effects has prompted a search for techniques …

A controversial finding in the field of causal learning is that mood contributes to the accuracy
of perceptions of uncorrelated relationships. When asked to report the degree of control …

Abstract 237 Ss in kindergarten and Grades 2, 4, and 6 were asked to provide causal scripts
for poverty and wealth. From an attributional framework, it was predicted that only Ss who …

Three experiments investigated rules for judging causal priority—the determination of which
of two coincident events caused the other. Results indicated that children utilized a direction …