Illusions of causality: how they bias our everyday thinking and how they could be reduced

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dc.contributor.authorMatute, Helena
dc.contributor.authorBlanco Bregón, Fernando
dc.contributor.authorYarritu Corrales, Ion
dc.contributor.authorDíaz Lago, Marcos
dc.contributor.authorVadillo, Miguel A.
dc.contributor.authorBarberia Fernández, Itxaso
dc.date.accessioned2026-02-13T10:59:57Z
dc.date.available2026-02-13T10:59:57Z
dc.date.issued2015-07-02
dc.date.updated2026-02-13T10:59:57Z
dc.description.abstractIllusions of causality occur when people develop the belief that there is a causal connection between two events that are actually unrelated. Such illusions have been proposed to underlie pseudoscience and superstitious thinking, sometimes leading to disastrous consequences in relation to critical life areas, such as health, finances, and wellbeing. Like optical illusions, they can occur for anyone under well-known conditions. Scientific thinking is the best possible safeguard against them, but it does not come intuitively and needs to be taught. Teaching how to think scientifically should benefit from better understanding of the illusion of causality. In this article, we review experiments that our group has conducted on the illusion of causality during the last 20 years. We discuss how research on the illusion of causality can contribute to the teaching of scientific thinking and how scientific thinking can reduce illusion.en
dc.description.sponsorshipSupport for this research was provided by Grant PSI2011-26965 from the Dirección General de Investigación of the Spanish Government and Grant IT363-10 from the Departamento de Educación, Universidades e Investigación of the Basque Governmenten
dc.identifier.citationMatute, H., Blanco, F., Yarritu, I., Díaz-Lago, M., Vadillo, M. A., & Barberia, I. (2015). Illusions of causality: how they bias our everyday thinking and how they could be reduced. Frontiers in Psychology, 6. Frontiers Media S.A. https://doi.org/10.3389/FPSYG.2015.00888
dc.identifier.doi10.3389/FPSYG.2015.00888
dc.identifier.eissn1664-1078
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14454/5111
dc.language.isoeng
dc.publisherFrontiers Media S.A.
dc.rightsCopyright ©2015 Matute, Blanco, Yarritu, Díaz-Lago, Vadillo and Barberia
dc.subject.otherCausal learning
dc.subject.otherCognitive biases
dc.subject.otherContingency judgment
dc.subject.otherIllusion of causality
dc.subject.otherIllusion of control
dc.subject.otherScience teaching
dc.subject.otherScientific methods
dc.subject.otherScientific thinking
dc.titleIllusions of causality: how they bias our everyday thinking and how they could be reduceden
dc.typereview article
dcterms.accessRightsopen access
oaire.citation.titleFrontiers in Psychology
oaire.citation.volume6
oaire.licenseConditionhttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
oaire.versionVoR
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