Superstitious behavior in humans.

By Koichi Ono. 1987

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Short-term plasticity as cause–effect hypothesis testing in distal reward learning (2014, background): “of learning, in which conclusions are drawn from few occurrences of rewards (Skinner, 1948; Ono, 1987).”
The Paranoid Optimist: An Integrative Evolutionary Model of Cognitive Biases (2006, background): “Very similar effects can be demonstrated in humans, who when presented with actually random patterns of reinforcement, develop superstitious beliefs about actions they must perform to produce the desired contingency (Catania & Cutts, 1963; Matute 1994, 1995; Ono, 1987; Rudski, 2001).”
Illusion of Control (2013, background): “…a common feature: Even though the participants’ behavior was not the actual cause of the outcomes, participants nevertheless believed that they were controlling the outcomes (e.g., Alloy & Abramson, 1979; Matute, 1995, 1996; Ono, 1987; Rudski, Lischner, & Albert, 1999; Thompson, 1999; Vyse, 1997).”