%A Z. F. Shao
%A J. Zhao
%J Psychological Science
%T An Experimental Research on Causal Illusion (in Chinese)
%X The research examined humans? causal attribution of response-outcome under controllable and uncontrollable conditions respectively and attempted to find out whether providing appropriate external cues could be beneficial to them in making accurate judgments. The results indicate: 1) under controllable conditions, the delay of feedback might lead to causal illusion; 2) under uncontrollable conditions, the subjects developed superstition and illusion of control rather than helplessness; 3) providing appropriate external cues helped the subjects eliminate their former established causal illusion.
%K delay, causal illusion, superstition, illusion of control
%P 107-110
%V 27
%D 2004
%L cogprints5659

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