creators_name: Shao, Z. F. creators_name: Zhao, J. type: journalp datestamp: 2007-08-20 lastmod: 2011-03-11 08:56:56 metadata_visibility: show title: An Experimental Research on Causal Illusion (in Chinese) ispublished: pub subjects: cog-psy full_text_status: public keywords: delay, causal illusion, superstition, illusion of control abstract: 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. date: 2004 date_type: published publication: Psychological Science volume: 27 pagerange: 107-110 refereed: FALSE citation: Shao, Z. F. and Zhao, J. (2004) An Experimental Research on Causal Illusion (in Chinese). [Journal (Paginated)] document_url: http://cogprints.org/5659/1/An_Experimental_Research_on_Causal_Illusion.pdf