--- 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.' altloc: [] chapter: ~ commentary: ~ commref: ~ confdates: ~ conference: ~ confloc: ~ contact_email: ~ creators_id: [] creators_name: - family: Shao given: Z. F. honourific: '' lineage: '' - family: Zhao given: J. honourific: '' lineage: '' date: 2004 date_type: published datestamp: 2007-08-20 department: ~ dir: disk0/00/00/56/59 edit_lock_since: ~ edit_lock_until: ~ edit_lock_user: ~ editors_id: [] editors_name: [] eprint_status: archive eprintid: 5659 fileinfo: /style/images/fileicons/application_pdf.png;/5659/1/An_Experimental_Research_on_Causal_Illusion.pdf full_text_status: public importid: ~ institution: ~ isbn: ~ ispublished: pub issn: ~ item_issues_comment: [] item_issues_count: 0 item_issues_description: [] item_issues_id: [] item_issues_reported_by: [] item_issues_resolved_by: [] item_issues_status: [] item_issues_timestamp: [] item_issues_type: [] keywords: 'delay, causal illusion, superstition, illusion of control' lastmod: 2011-03-11 08:56:56 latitude: ~ longitude: ~ metadata_visibility: show note: ~ number: ~ pagerange: 107-110 pubdom: FALSE publication: Psychological Science publisher: ~ refereed: FALSE referencetext: ~ relation_type: [] relation_uri: [] reportno: ~ rev_number: 8 series: ~ source: ~ status_changed: 2007-09-12 17:11:20 subjects: - cog-psy succeeds: ~ suggestions: ~ sword_depositor: ~ sword_slug: ~ thesistype: ~ title: An Experimental Research on Causal Illusion (in Chinese) type: journalp userid: 542 volume: 27