Everyday magical powers: the role of apparent mental causation in the overestimation of personal influence.
By Emily Pronin, Daniel M. Wegner, K. Mccarthy, Sylvia Rodriguez. 2006
172 citations recorded by the source corpus.
Subfields: Cognitive Neuroscience, General Decision Sciences, Literature and Literary Theory
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In Cognitive Neuroscience
- Marjaana Lindeman
- Bernhard Schölkopf
- Niki Kilbertus
- Joachim I. Krueger
- Giambattista Parascandolo
- Gita V. Johar
- Daniel M. Wegner
- R. Crisp
In General Decision Sciences
In Literature and Literary Theory
Citations in the corpus
- Generalization in anti-causal learning (2018, methodology): “, 2003; James and Gauthier, 2006), we are quick to infer causal relations even when there are none (Pronin et al., 2006; Matute et al., 2015).”
- What's in a Term? Paranormal, Superstitious, Magical and Supernatural Beliefs by Any Other Name Would Mean the Same (2012, background): “…as an action directed toward the achievement of a particular outcome with no logical relationships between the action and the outcome (Albas & Albas, 1989) and as a belief in the ability to influence events at a distance with no known physical explanation (Pronin et al., 2006; Zusne & Jones, 1989).”
- Conditioned Superstition: Desire for Control and Consumer Brand Preferences (2013, background): “Using a familiar (vs. exotic) deck of cards resulted in increased wagers (Bouts and Avermaet 1992), and TV viewers with higher levels of mental engagement during a Super Bowl broadcast perceived a greater responsibility for the outcome (Pronin et al. 2006).”
- Illusions of causality: how they bias our everyday thinking and how they could be reduced (2015, methodology): “For example, Figure 1 shows the results of a computer simulation based on the popular Rescorla–Wagner learning algorithm (Rescorla and Wagner, 1972).”
- From social projection to social behaviour (2007, background): “A player might feel that his/her choice was freely willed, and this feeling can be taken as an instance of magical causation (Pronin, Wegner, McCarthy, & Rodriguez, 2006 ).”