Causal illusions in the service of political attitudes in Spain and the United Kingdom

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dc.contributor.authorBlanco Bregón, Fernando
dc.contributor.authorGómez Fortes, Braulio
dc.contributor.authorMatute, Helena
dc.date.accessioned2026-04-13T10:51:21Z
dc.date.available2026-04-13T10:51:21Z
dc.date.issued2018-06-28
dc.date.updated2026-04-13T10:51:21Z
dc.description.abstractThe causal illusion is a cognitive bias that results in the perception of causality where there is no supporting evidence. We show that people selectively exhibit the bias, especially in those situations where it favors their current worldview as revealed by their political orientation. In our two experiments (one conducted in Spain and one conducted in the United Kingdom), participants who self-positioned themselves on the ideological left formed the illusion that a left-wing ruling party was more successful in improving city indicators than a right-wing party, while participants on the ideological right tended to show the opposite pattern. In sum, despite the fact that the same information was presented to all participants, people developed the causal illusion bias selectively, providing very different interpretations that aligned with their previous attitudes. This result occurs in situations where participants inspect the relationship between the government's actions and positive outcomes (improving city indicators) but not when the outcomes are negative (worsening city indicators).en
dc.description.sponsorshipGrant PSI2016- 78818-R [AEI/FEDER, EU, from Agencia Estatal de Investigación of the Spanish Government (AEI) and European Regional Development Fund-Fondo Europeo de Desarrollo Regional (FEDER)], as well as Grant IT955-16 from the Basque Government, both awarded to HMen
dc.identifier.citationBlanco F, Gómez-Fortes B and Matute H (2018) Causal Illusions in the Service of Political Attitudes in Spain and the United Kingdom. Front. Psychol. 9:1033. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2018.01033
dc.identifier.doi10.3389/FPSYG.2018.01033
dc.identifier.eissn1664-1078
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14454/5618
dc.language.isoeng
dc.publisherFrontiers Media S.A.
dc.rights© 2018 Blanco, Gómez-Fortes and Matute
dc.subject.otherCausal illusion
dc.subject.otherCausality
dc.subject.otherCognitive bias
dc.subject.otherMotivated reasoning
dc.subject.otherPolitical orientation
dc.titleCausal illusions in the service of political attitudes in Spain and the United Kingdomen
dc.typejournal article
dcterms.accessRightsopen access
oaire.citation.issueJUN
oaire.citation.titleFrontiers in Psychology
oaire.citation.volume9
oaire.licenseConditionhttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
oaire.versionVoR
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