A hard to read font reduces the causality bias
Previous studies have demonstrated that fluency affects judgment and decision-making. The purpose of the present research was to investigate the effect of perceptual fluency in a causal learning task that usually induces an illusion of causality in non-contingent conditions. We predicted that a redu...
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| author | Marcos Díaz-Lago Helena Matute |
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| description | Previous studies have
demonstrated that fluency affects judgment and decision-making. The purpose of
the present research was to investigate the effect of perceptual fluency in a
causal learning task that usually induces an illusion of causality in
non-contingent conditions. We predicted that a reduction of fluency could
improve accuracy in the detection of non-contingency and, therefore, could be
used to debias illusory perceptions of causality. Participants were randomly
assigned to either an easy-to-read or a hard-to-read condition. Our results
showed a strong bias (i.e., overestimation) of causality in those participants
who performed the non-contingent task in the easy-to-read font, which
replicated the standard causality bias effect. This effect was reduced when the
same task was presented in a hard-to-read font. Overall, our results provide
evidence for a reduction of the causality bias when presenting the problem in a
hard-to-read font. This suggests that perceptual fluency affects causal
judgments. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-cd1773b2cde54925a916e0f3178b11f12023-09-03T03:10:36ZengCambridge University PressJudgment and Decision Making1930-29752019-09-01145547554A hard to read font reduces the causality biasMarcos Díaz-LagoHelena MatutePrevious studies have demonstrated that fluency affects judgment and decision-making. The purpose of the present research was to investigate the effect of perceptual fluency in a causal learning task that usually induces an illusion of causality in non-contingent conditions. We predicted that a reduction of fluency could improve accuracy in the detection of non-contingency and, therefore, could be used to debias illusory perceptions of causality. Participants were randomly assigned to either an easy-to-read or a hard-to-read condition. Our results showed a strong bias (i.e., overestimation) of causality in those participants who performed the non-contingent task in the easy-to-read font, which replicated the standard causality bias effect. This effect was reduced when the same task was presented in a hard-to-read font. Overall, our results provide evidence for a reduction of the causality bias when presenting the problem in a hard-to-read font. This suggests that perceptual fluency affects causal judgments.http://journal.sjdm.org/19/190717/jdm190717.pdfcausality bias illusion of causality debiasing perceptual fluency contingencyNAKeywords |
| spellingShingle | Marcos Díaz-Lago Helena Matute A hard to read font reduces the causality bias Judgment and Decision Making causality bias illusion of causality debiasing perceptual fluency contingencyNAKeywords |
| title | A hard to read font
reduces the causality bias |
| title_full | A hard to read font
reduces the causality bias |
| title_fullStr | A hard to read font
reduces the causality bias |
| title_full_unstemmed | A hard to read font
reduces the causality bias |
| title_short | A hard to read font
reduces the causality bias |
| title_sort | hard to read font reduces the causality bias |
| topic | causality bias illusion of causality debiasing perceptual fluency contingencyNAKeywords |
| url | http://journal.sjdm.org/19/190717/jdm190717.pdf |
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