Questions tagged [causal-inference]
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perception/judgment of probabilistic independence
I am not a psychologist. I do research in conditional/probabilistic reasoning. I am curious if there has been any work on how do people make judgments about probabilistic independence and causal ...
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Ability of fixed-effects analyses to enable generalisation of results
Is it correct to say that, when making inferrence on the results of an experiment, using a random-effects (RFX) rather than a fixed-effects (FFX) model merely makes the results more generalisable, as ...
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How does the brain learn and execute causal reasoning for short-term and long-term planning?
What does state-of-the-art neuroscience research say about the way the brain learns and performs causal reasoning when it has to come up with short-term and long-term plans in order to achieve a ...
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How might the “Imposter Syndrome” typology be reconciled with the robustness of the “self-serving bias”?
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What on Earth is going on in someone's head to invert a cognitive bias that is robustly observed in people who are psychologically healthy (Cohen's d = 1.28) and still present in depression (...
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Does the Perception that Stress Affects Health Matter? The Association with Health and Mortality
I recently came across the following paper:
Keller, A., Litzelman, K., Wisk, L. E., Maddox, T., Cheng, E. R., Creswell, P. D., & Witt, W. P. (2012). Does the perception that stress affects health ...
