Illusions of causality occur when people develop the belief that there is a causal connection
between two events that are actually unrelated. Such illusions have been proposed to …

The human cognitive system is fine-tuned to detect patterns in the environment with the aim
of predicting important outcomes and, eventually, to optimize behavior. Built under the logic …

The illusion of control consists of overestimating the influence that our behavior exerts over
uncontrollable outcomes. Available evidence suggests that an important factor in …

Causal illusion has been proposed as a cognitive mediator of pseudoscientific beliefs.
However, previous studies have only tested the association between this cognitive bias and …

Human decision-makers often exhibit the hot-hand phenomenon, a tendency to perceive
positive serial autocorrelations in independent sequential events. The term is named after …

Visualization research often focuses on perceptual accuracy or helping readers interpret key
messages. However, we know very little about how chart designs might influence readers' …

An illusion of control is said to occur when a person believes that he or she controls an
outcome that is uncontrollable. Pathological gambling has often been related to an illusion …

Acceptance of fake news is probably modulated by an intricate interplay of social, cultural,
and political factors. In this study, we investigated whether individual‐level cognitive factors …

The purpose of this research is to investigate the impact of a foreign language on the
causality bias (ie, the illusion that two events are causally related when they are not). We …

In the reasoning literature, paranormal beliefs have been proposed to be linked to two
related phenomena: a biased perception of causality and a biased information-sampling …